November 15, 2006
Compellent Awarded Microsoft Gold Partner Certification
Gold Partner status validates Storage Center’s seamless integration and advanced functionality with Microsoft applications
Minneapolis, Nov. 15, 2006 — Compellent Technologies, a provider of affordable and modular enterprise storage solutions, today announced it has been awarded Microsoft Gold Partner Certification Status. Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of Microsoft's Partner Certification program and have advanced access to engineering and software resources, allowing Compellent to ensure seamless integration with Microsoft products while delivering advanced functionality.
In addition to being a Gold Certified partner, Compellent has worked in cooperation with Microsoft to ensure Storage Center's powerful software applications—which provide advanced capabilities like Automated Tiered Storage, Thin Provisioning, Continuous Snapshots and Thin Replication— integrate seamlessly and add value to key Microsoft applications.
"Microsoft customers choose Storage Center because it's an ideal storage platform for enterprise applications like Exchange and SQL Server," said Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing for Compellent. "For example, using Automated Tiered Storage with Exchange will reduce storage expenditures and increase overall performance."
Storage Center's Automated Tiered Storage is easily integrated with Exchange to create a cost-effective email archiving solution. By storing inactive portions of volumes and files on lower-cost storage, Storage Center reduces the overall cost of an Exchange storage environment. In addition, moving inactive blocks of data off high-performance drives frees up spindles to be used for performanceintensive applications, boosting tier-one application performance.
Further examples of Compellent working in combination with Microsoft include MPIO certification and integration with Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) for backup and recovery. Storage Center’s easy-to-use interface is a perfect match for Microsoft administrators because both systems provide a rich set of management tools and intuitive graphical user interfaces.
About Storage Center
Storage Center builds on its Dynamic Block Architecture to deliver a scalable, open-systems hardware platform that is designed to allow businesses to mix and match disk drives, controllers and enclosures; an integrated foundation of core storage capabilities providing functionality previously available only in high-end systems; a suite of software applications that can optimize utilization, automating replication and speeding data recovery; and a single, intuitive, centralized management interface streamlining storage administration.
About Compellent
Compellent delivers affordable, modular storage solutions exclusively through business partners that provide companies of all sizes enterprise storage capabilities without big system costs or complexities. For more information, visit www.compellent.com.