Industry Commentary
Customer quotes:
Craig Miller, senior infrastructure manager, BioWare:
“BioWare is a 24/7 business with automated processes that are happening every hour of the day. So, downtime is out of the question. Within a couple days of running Live Volume, I moved terabytes of data in several existing volumes from one array to another without an outage or impact to our applications. Live Volume revolutionizes how IT management and maintenance is done for our company. It’s not about IT management—it’s just business.”
Sandee Sprang, director of IT for South Carolina Office of the Attorney General: “The South Carolina Office of the Attorney General must retain case-related data, including digitized briefs, correspondence, evidence and other case documents, for 25 years. On top of that, we have nearly 9,000 open cases at any given time that also generate a significant amount of data. Needless to say, the ability to continuously scale our infrastructure and keep up with data growth is critical to our day-to-day operations. Compellent Storage Center and the series 40 controller provide us with the flexibility and performance that we need to continue supporting the needs of our constituents.”
Industry analyst quotes:
Noemi Greyzdorf, research manager for storage software, IDC:
“Our research shows that in 2011, businesses will continue to seek ways to employ virtualization solutions to efficiently meet business demands. Flexible infrastructures, like those built on the Compellent Fluid Data architecture and Live Volume, will be valuable in the coming year as an enabling technology to help reduce complexity, improve operational efficiency, and deliver a scalable, persistent storage resource.”
George Crump, president and founder, Storage Switzerland
“There has been a true shift in the industry to virtualization and cloud technologies especially at the enterprise level as they are looking for ways to scale and meet the continuing challenges of growing and changing data demands. Compellent Fluid Data architecture and the latest launch of Storage Center 5.4 with Live Volume offer infrastructure flexibility and allow businesses to employ cloud computing and virtualization solutions to efficiently meet data center demands without the necessity of a forklift upgrade.”
Tom Trainer, principal and founder, Analytico:
“The rapid global adoption of virtualization, and the deployment of private and public clouds, creates a profound reliance on enterprise class storage. With technologies such as Live Volume, next-generation hardware, and integrated management capabilities, Compellent continues to deliver enterprise class storage solutions that enable businesses to rely upon and leverage their IT infrastructure in order to compete and accelerate their business objectives.”
Partner quotes:
Sonia St. Charles, CEO and founder, Davenport Group:
“Compellent is always at the forefront of providing best-of-breed hardware and software solutions to organizations looking for persistent, easy-to-use and agile solutions that break through the boundaries of their legacy storage systems. Compellent Storage Center 5.4 continues this tradition by delivering scalability, flexibility, high performance and high availability and enabling grid computing for cloud and enterprise data centers.”
Steve McClure, vice president of sales and marketing, Netlist:
“We are excited to be selected for the next-generation Compellent Storage Center Series 40 controller,” said Steve McClure, vice president of sales and marketing at Netlist. “Compellent continues to simplify enterprise storage management through its Fluid Data innovations and we are pleased that NetVault NV contributes to making these innovations possible for its customers. Our solution overcomes the limitations of traditional battery-backed modules on the market today to deliver extended disaster recovery at a lower cost.”
Henry Fabian, executive director, core product marketing at Seagate:
“The Seagate® 2.5-inch hard drives are an enabler for high-performance, low-power and space-conscious enterprise storage solutions. The drive’s implementation of 6-Gb/s SAS improves scalability, which makes it ideally suited for use in high-end network storage solutions. This technology is helping lead the industry to the pervasive back-end storage connectivity with 6Gb/s SAS that enables Compellent to deliver the latest system configurations available with the Storage Center 5.4 release. Additionally, by using the small form factor drives, enterprises can lower TCO while improving ROI through lower-cost, multi-drive storage.”
Patrick Mulvee, vice president of sales and marketing, Sidepath, a leading Compellent integrator:
“The next-generation hardware and software offered in Compellent Storage Center 5.4 gives our customers the performance and availability their enterprise and cloud data centers require, while providing them with the flexibility and scalability to adapt to their ever-changing environments. These enhancements build on the Compellent Fluid Data architecture that many organizations have come to rely on for dynamic, automated and easy-to-manage storage.”