Compellent is offering Compellent Storage Center systems bundled with VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager, which enables organizations to create a “disaster ready” cloud environment.

Using Compellent Fluid Data storage with VMware Site Recovery Manager as the foundation, the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities has created a private cloud to deliver IT services, while automating protection and recovery of operational and client data, for 10 care facilities.

Below you will find information on the press release, customer commentary, Compellent product information, whitepapers and photos.

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Press Release:

• Compellent Expands Partnership with VMware to Deliver Disaster-Ready Cloud Solutions for Data Centers

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Press Conference:

• Press Conference Presentation
• Press Conference Recording (available for 90 days)

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Customer Commentary:

“Serving 80,000 people in Ohio requires us to have a reliable and highly available IT infrastructure. In just six months, we’ve virtualized 90 percent of our server and storage hardware with a goal of 98 percent, further reducing space, power and cooling costs. In the process, we seamlessly added vSphere SRM to our existing Compellent replication to enable bullet-proof disaster recovery. With Compellent and VMware, we can now shift resources on demand between our data centers and deliver IT services that can scale for numerous departments across our organization.”
— Brian Brothers, network administrator manager, Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities

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Product Information and White Papers:

• Automatically Recover Your Business with VMware SRM and Compellent
• 7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware

Photos:

• Parag Patel, vice president of Global Strategic Alliances, VMware

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Additional Links:

• Compellent and VMware alliance page
• Compellent and VMware resource center