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Intel Application Brief: Turn Your Data Center Green—Cost-Effectively
April 2008

Server and Storage Virtualization Address Today’s Toughest Challenges
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Gartner Research: Disk Quality of Storage Service Reduces Storage Costs
February 2008

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ESG Lab Validation Report: Storage Center v4.0:  Sophisticated Storage Simplicity
February 2008

Taneja Group Report: A hands-on validation of Compellent’s storage virtualization architecture.
January 2008

Total Cost of Ownership: Seven Ways to Lower Storage TCO
January 2008
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OpenBench Labs Analysis: Raising the SAN Value Proposition via Simplified Virtual Server Management
November 2007

This report analyzes how Compellent's virtualized storage system provides automated storage management technologies such as Replays to improve virtual server administration and speed disaster recovery.
OpenBench Labs

Three Must Haves for the Virtual Data Center
November 2007

This position paper highlights the reasons why easy provisioning, automated tiering and continuous data protection are must haves for a successful virtual data center.
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Compellent's Green Advantage: Extending the Life of Data Centers with an Energy-Efficient SAN
November 2007

Find out how you can automatically reduce power costs and CO2 emissions with Compellent's energy-efficient SAN.
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iSCSI vs Fibre Channel SANs: Three Reasons Not to Choose Sides
October 2007

This position brief will explore three reasons it makes sense to select a SAN that allows you to pick the right technology for each application. Customer examples will illustrate how the three reasons play out in the real world.
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Data Center Virtualization
August 2007

This white paper discusses how using Storage Center and VMware together allows organizations of all sizes to lower costs and realize immediate benefits including enhanced IT productivity, greater system availability, greater IT flexibility and enhanced business agility.
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Compellent + NAS: Addressing the Growth of Unstructured Data
July 2007

The best approach is a single storage system that supports both SAN and NAS.
Enterprise Strategy Group

Compellent: Building iSCSI Momentum
April 2007

The promise of iSCSI to lower capital and operational costs has paid off for early adopters. In this brief, Tony Asaro, senior analyst for ESG, describes the importance of Compellent's iSCSI support.
Enterprise Strategy Group

IDC Guidance on Compellent
March 2007

Don't miss IDC's essential guidance on Compellent's product development strategy, market positioning and outlook.
IDC

Compellent Server Instant Replay: A Complete Boot from SAN Solution
March 2007

The first SAN to slash server costs while improving server uptime and application availability.

Info-Tech iSCSI Report: Why do organizations choose iSCSI SANs over Fibre Channel SANs?
March 2007

Ease of use is the biggest feather in the cap of an IP SAN, according to the IT professionals Info-Tech spoke with for this report.
Info-Tech

Optimizing Exchange Server in a Tiered Storage Environment
November 2006


Using Compellent's Automated Tiered Storage solution, administrators can easily place Exchange Server databases on multiple tiers of storage, reducing the overall system cost while maintaining a high level of performance.

Managing Storage Systems: Focus on Compellent
August 2006

The results of an independent survey conducted by Tony Asaro, Senior Analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) show that Storage Center is fundamentally easier to use and manage than the leading storage when performing many of the most common and important tasks.
Enterprise Strategy Group

Industry Analyst Taneja Group Profiles Compellent's Remote Replication Solution
July 2006

By integrating snapshots and replication, Compellent eliminates the consistency problem prevalent in site-to-site disaster recovery scenarios and also reduces the complexity of bringing up a secondary site after a disaster. Compellent has hit a homerun in terms of architecting the system around simplifying the provisioning, management, and protection of data.

Raising the SAN Value Proposition By Automating Tiered Data Migration
July 2006


This report provides an excellent overview of Compellent’s SAN with detailed descriptions of Virtualization, Dynamic Block Architecture, and key software application with special attention being given to Data Progression.
OpenBench Labs

Understanding How ILM is Evolving
June 2006

Interest in ILM is heating up as more and more organizations are struggling to manage exponential storage growth. This white paper from TheInfoPro describes how Compellent’s Automated Tiered Storage eliminates the complexities commonly associated with ILM and addresses storage professionals biggest pain points: data classification and data movement.
TheInfoPro

Intelligent Tiered Storage: Focus on Compellent In-the-Box Tiering
March 2006


In this report, Tony Asaro, Senior Analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) describes how intelligent tiered storage can significantly reduce cost and enable companies to better leverage their storage environment.
Enterprise Strategy Group

Thin Provisioning: Focus on Compellent Dynamic Capacity
October 2005


ESG believes that one of the more important but often misunderstood advancements within data storage is thin provisioning. This report focuses on Dynamic Capacity, Compellent's implementation of thin provisioning.
Enterprise Strategy Group


Customer Testimonial
"Compellent has helped me think more simply about storage. It’s solutions are extremely easy to manipulate. It’s one of the easiest programs I've ever used. I provided no training for my assistant, and he has had no trouble with it."

Michael Roller
Fabyanske, Westra & Hart
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