Around The Block Blog
by Liem Nguyen, Corporate Communications Manager — March 09, 2010
When it comes to your IT environment, sometimes the best decisions involve an element of risk. Implementing a new technology can be a difficult choice – but the payoff can be pretty big.
Just ask Ben Higginbotham, director of new technology at WhereToLive.com, a company that offers real estate brokers behind-the-scenes applications that support daily property transactions and listings. Ben’s job centers around evaluating new technologies to help manage the data that realtors need – and decide whether the risk of implementation is worth the payoff. Using the Compellent SAN, Ben has created an ideal Fluid Data platform to test new resources and assess new capabilities.
Compellent invites you to join Ben, as well as Compellent storage architect John Dias, for a Twitter Chat we’re calling #SANChat. The very first one will about new technology risks you are taking or considering in the data center – are you curious what others have similarly done? What about the results? Was the payoff worth the risk? Did your recommendations, particularly storage-related ones, generate business-improving benefits in the end? Take an hour to chat with us and share your questions, best practices, and advice about doing something new in storage.
#SANchat Details:
- Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm CT
- Topic: Evaluating the Risk of New Technologies
- The hashtag #SANchat will be used to identify the thread for this chat; use the #SANchat identifier to submit questions during the chat session
- If you can’t attend the session, you can submit questions in advance to @Compellent, and we’ll provide these advance topics to our participants for discussion during the chat
- Follow: John Dias: @johnddias, Ben Higginbotham: @bencredible, Compellent: @Compellent
- We recommend using the service TweetChat.com to follow the conversation.
by Ryan Sclanders, Infrastructure Manager, Credit Market Analysis — March 08, 2010
We are really excited to be ahead of the wave as one of Compellent's first EMEA customers to be part of its new Fluid Data strategy.
Financial institutions across the world depend upon our products and services 24/7. In a $34 trillion market, our clients rely on our pricing data to enhance their ability to manage risk, value their portfolios and understand market trends and themes.
The pressure is therefore on to make sure all of our IT solutions can support us and our clients. Compellent offers a combination of virtualisation and Fluid Data infrastructure, which made it an ideal choice. Not only is it easy to use, but its intelligent automated tiered storage allows the data to flow up and down the tiers. This reduces management costs, avoids unnecessary disk purchases and minimises power costs.
Editor’s Note: Ryan Sclanders of CMA is a Compellent customer and the contributor of this blog post. To learn more about CMA and their use of Compellent systems, watch this video and read this case study.
by Maryna Frolova, PR Coordinator — February 25, 2010
Training is an important part of familiarizing yourself with a new data storage system. Compellent hosts training sessions almost every week for our customers, partners and new employees. Last week, I had a chance to sit down with Jim Wegner from Synergy Medical Education Alliance to talk about his new Compellent SAN and the training session that he was attending at Compellent headquarters. Listen to Mr. Wegner talk about his virtualization project, as well as why he is enjoying his training course.
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Next week, I will be traveling to Atlanta to attend one of the biggest healthcare IT trade shows, HIMSS10, to talk to our healthcare customers and healthcare experts about what’s on their mind for healthcare IT and storage issues for the industry in 2010. If you are planning on attending the show, please visit us in booth #8741. Stay tuned for more videos from the show floor. Follow me @MarineroF for news and updates from HIMSS10. |
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