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Compellent Technologies offers enterprise network storage solutions with advanced virtualization technology for today's blade servers and blade environments. Compellent enterprise storage is ideal for data centers with blade server environments. Advanced virtualization, sophisticated software and an open, modular hardware architecture provide an ultra-efficient and highly flexible storage solution that cuts cost, time and risk. At the core of Compellent storage is a Fluid Data architecture that enables the management of data at the block level. Specific information about each block is captured in action to provide real-time system intelligence for storing, migrating and recovering data. This granularity also enables Compellent to virtualize storage at the disk level, which is the perfect complement to virtualized server environments such as those running vSphere or Hyper-V. Instead of requiring users to allocate particular drives to specific blade servers, the system creates a shared pool of storage spanning all drives. Storage is presented to servers simply as capacity, with all storage resources available to all servers, all the time.

Compellent Thin Provisioning completely separates storage allocation from utilization, enabling users to allocate any size volume upfront yet only consume physical capacity when data is written. In most cases, organizations can regain 40-60% of disk space that would have been lost to pre-allocation with conventional systems. Automated Tiered Storage by Compellent further increases efficiency by automatically classifying and migrating data to the optimum tier based on actual usage. The most active blocks of data reside on high-performance drives, while less active blocks move to lower-cost, high-capacity drives. The result is storage that is always in tune with application needs – and overall storage costs cut by up to 80%.

For continuous local and remote data protection, administrators can utilize Compellent snapshot technology. Once an initial snapshot of a volume is taken, only incremental changes need to be captured. These space-efficient snapshots can be used to recover any size volume to any blade server in less than 10 seconds. They can also be used for Boot from SAN operations, which is especially useful in blade environments. Using a gold image stored on the SAN, administrators can provision or recover servers in a matter of clicks – without server-based agents that may interfere with the process – and implement a robust test environment for upgrades and patches on real data without risk.

With Compellent, administrators can scale from entry-level to enterprise on the same modular platform, mix and match drives and server interconnects, and introduce new technologies over time without disruption. To ensure high availability, Compellent features fully redundant hardware and advanced failover features, including clustered controllers with powerful Intel processors that operate in unison yet connect independently. To ensure seamless integration, Compellent partners with leading industry companies including VMware, Microsoft, Intel and IBM.

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