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Fast Track

The First SAN to Automate Tiered Storage Within Every Drive

Automated Tiered Storage with Fast Track dynamically places the most frequently used data on the fastest, or outer, tracks of each drive. The result is a system that requires fewer drives to manage your data – delivering a big payoff in cost savings, management and power consumption without sacrificing performance.




Fast Track provides data optimization within each tier, while Data Progression optimizes between tiers, allowing you to:

Radically Reduce Costs. Slash storage costs without sacrificing performance. Buy fewer drives overall, and efficiently utilize lower cost drives without sacrificing performance.

Automatically Optimize Data Placement. Take advantage of the most advanced automated multi-tiered storage architecture solution in the industry. Automatically place active blocks on the preferred tier and the fastest track of the drive.

Maximize Performance. Improve performance based on actual usage patterns, reducing seek times for the most active blocks of data.

Key Benefits
  • Use up to 30 percent fewer drives without sacrificing performance
  • Reduce power consumption by decreasing reliance on costly, high-power drives
  • Operates inside the volume to optimize data placement, improve performance and create a dynamic system
  • Leverages thin provisioning technology to only write actual data to the fastest tracks on the drive, further improving disk utilization

The Compellent Advantage
CompellentOthers Typically
Operates inside the volume on blocks of dataTreat the volume as a single entity
Fully automated optimizationCan not offer this level of automation; Require manual intervention to set up, fine tune and manage ongoing optimization
Continuous analysis and daily data movement with Data ProgressionProvide static, inflexible solutions
Data written to outer tracks limited to actual dataAllocate both provisioned and unwritten space, waste the fastest portions of the drive
Customer Testimonial
"After upgrading to Storage Center 4.0 with Fast Track, we saw performance gains of 25 to 50 percent with the same number of 10,000 rpm drives."

John Loy, Network Engineer, South Carolina Office of the Attorney General
Related Collateral

Fast Track Datasheet:  The first SAN to Automate Tiered Storage Within Every Drive

Advanced Thin Provisioning One Pager:   Extend the benefits of Thin Provisioning

Data Progression Datasheet: The Industry's Only SAN with Automated Tiered Storage

Ares Management Case Study:  Investment in Compellent to Support Skyrocketing Growth

South Carolina Office of the Attorney General Case Study:  Reforming Storage with Compellent SAN

Credit Union of Colorado Case Study:  Banking on Green Storage with Compellent SAN

Press Release:  Compellent Launches Storage Center 4.0, Reduces Disk Drive Usage by up to 80 Percent

Featured Downloads
Fast Track Video:  Reduce drive counts up to 30% without sacrificing performance.



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