How Microsoft Hyper-V Helped My IT Shop Revamp Disaster Recovery
August 26, 2008
Compellent customer, Munder Capital Management, paired Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology with its Compellent SANs to revamp its disaster recovery strategy, eliminate 42 servers and cut cooling costs by $1,000 a month. |  |
Compellent shares soar on outlook
August 6, 2008
“While competing against much larger rivals… Compellent Technologies Inc.'s stock surged nearly 19 percent” this week, following the announcement of second quarter profits. |  |
NetApp, Compellent, HP, Dell top the field in 12-product test
July 28, 2008
NetworkWorld’s iSCSI SAN product review, which pored over 12 competing systems and considered everything from replication and backup capabilities to scalability and manageability, found that Compellent was consistently one of the leaders of the pack. Compellent won high marks for its ease of use, flexible snapshots and automated tiered storage. “Compellent has the best management console of any of the systems we tested, providing more control, configuration visualization and monitoring capabilities than its competitors.” |  |
A Compellent Case for Green IT
June 24, 2008
Compellent, a company that was green “before green was vogue,” makes the case for efficient and ecologically friendly storage technology. “[It’s] something likely to resonate with customers in an era of high-energy costs.” Employing both thin provisioning and automated-tiered storage, a Compellent SAN reduces physical disk utilization by up to 75 percent. |  |
Ad agency chooses Compellent SAN for VMware DR project
June 20, 2008
When faced with the decision to upgrade its legacy SAN, Arnold, a Boston-based advertising firm, choose Compellent instead, which offered a "more cost-effective [solution] with better software options." The company was so satisfied it has since added an additional Compellent SAN at its New York office for remote replication. |  |
Hot Stocks You're Buying Now
June 18, 2008
"Coal may be cool, but this week there's cash in caching. Companies such as Rule Breakers recommendation Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM) and Compellent Technologies (NYSE: CML) are up 17.2% as a group over the past 30 days." |  |
Green IT across the enterprise
June 17, 2008
The Royal Horticultural Society boasts the “best horticultural library in the world,” totaling 200,000 images. In digitizing their thousands of photographs, “the society needed a storage medium that would grow along with its needs, but that would not demand huge amounts of power up front.” In choosing Compellent, the Society showed they really do have a green thumb – they greened their data center and reported savings of over £37,000. |  |
The Hottest Companies in the Midmarket Right Now
June 13, 2008
CRN believes Compellent has a strong channel and midsized enterprise focus, and offers "full-featured product with a loyal base of solution providers." |  |
Storage Magazine Cover Story: Migrate Data Without Mistakes
June 09, 2008
With storage needs growing at 50% every year, “data classification is driving the need to move data from one tier of storage to another or from one array to another. Data migration has become a way of life for storage administrators.” Peter Fitch, infrastructure manager at Rudolph Technologies, used to spend his weekends on large migrations, but no more. Since switching to Compellent, "We just let it go," he said. "Nobody in the company even knows [the migration] is happening." |  |
Compellent aims to take the pain out of ILM
June 5, 2008
“Compellent’s Storage Center offers a unique solution that fully automates the [storage] process… allowing you to get the best value from your network storage. The Storage Center is easy to deploy and also offers sophisticated thin provisioning and data backup plus a range of replication options.” |  |
Comic Relief chooses Compellent SAN for tiering, provisioning features
June 30, 2008
Comic Relief, the London-based charity, recently implemented a Compellent SAN to better manage their data and lower operational costs, which means more of every donation can go directly to the people who need it. The UK charity, which sponsors the annual « Red Nose Day, » has implemented Thin Provisioning and Automated Tiered Storage to help consolidate their storage infrastructure. |  |
On the fast track to tiered storage
May 30, 2008
InfoWorld, testing the Compellent Storage Center with the latest Fast Track feature, commends the system’s automation and innovation. “Data Progression is one of the most effective tiered storage management solutions I have seen…it's an easy, reliable way to reduce the clutter on your primary storage devices while making sure business access is not slowed down in the process.” |  |
Microsoft Selects Compellent SAN
May 21, 2008
"When it came time for us to redesign and virtualise our data center, it was an easy choice to add the Compellent SAN" said David Hayes, Director of the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center. Microsoft architects are installing two Compellent SANs and plan to test and showcase technology solutions based on Windows Server 2008 and their Compellent solution. |  |
Have you seen Compellent's Storage Center?
May 20, 2008
Compellent channel partner and blogger Michael Keen explains step-by-step Compellent’s latest storage innovation, Fast Track. “I haven't seen this from any other SAN vendor in the industry (yet), and this is one of the many reasons I'm stoked about what Compellent brings to the table. They are constantly working on innovation in Storage and …[are] one-step ahead of their competition.” |  |
Compellent's Fast Track: What is it?
May 20, 2008
Compellent channel partner and blogger Michael Keen explains step-by-step Compellent’s latest storage innovation, Fast Track. “I haven't seen this from any other SAN vendor in the industry (yet), and this is one of the many reasons I'm stoked about what Compellent brings to the table. They are constantly working on innovation in Storage and …[are] one-step ahead of their competition.” | |
Power Costs Drive Moves to Virtual Servers
May 15, 2008
Two customers signficantly reduce power consumption using Compellent and VMware. BankMidwest employs Compellent's Enterprise Manager to charge back storage consumption to branch offices, and monitor storage and "green" savings. Ares Management reduced power by 25 percent and consolidated its physical servers from 49 to five. | |
Compellent Users Get Virtualization; Day 2 of Compellent’s Annual User C-Drive Conference
May 9, 2008
Analyst and blogger Jerome Wendt describes his reactions to Compellent’s annual customer conference , C-Drive: game-changing virtualization technology, fun with data progression, and more. |  |
IT Managers Put Data Recovery to the Test
May 8, 2008
From C-Drive 2008, two Compellent customers, Moss & Associates and Munder Capital Management, explain why they rely on Compellent as their disaster recovery solution. Ed Eades, a storage and data recovery engineer for Munder, said, "If I do lose any data, it could mean millions of dollars for our company, being in the securities business." | |
Hillingdon gets storage savvy
May 8, 2008
As little as five years ago, Hillingdon, the London Borough home to Heathrow Airport, suffered from a IT system that was overburdened and underprepared for growing data storage needs. In switching to Compellent, Hillingdon can manage data increasing at a rate of 100 per cent each year and makes use of virtualization, thin provisioning and automated tiered storage. With Compellent, Roger Bearpark, the council’s IT head, explained, "Clever storage doesn't have to be technically difficult." |  |
Savoring the fruits of the Green 15's seeds
April 22, 2008
InfoWorld has selected Compellent customer gm2 Logistics as one of the Green 15, chosen for being a trendsetter in implementing innovative, green technology. Green technology is changing the game as companies recognize the affordability, scalability and flexibility of eco-conscious technology and are finding measurable success by pairing green technology with clean energy, with regular input from the departments IT supports. |  |
GM2 Logistics marries SANs and sustainability
April 22, 2008
Compellent user and InfoWorld Green 15 honoree gm2 Logistics has confronted the challenge of greening its IT environment. “We always look for a green aspect,” explains John Boyd, IT manager at gm2. “We're not just green IT. We try to be a green company." Pairing two Compellent SANs with VMware, gm2 has consolidated 36 servers to just six blades and retired between 200 and 250 PCs. | |
Compellent Enterprise Manager 3.1
April 15, 2008
"Using Enterprise Manager, we were able to pull together a 'hero' report to rationalise our expenses and savings in just minutes, showing how we can allocate storage to each office, but only charge-back based on actual consumption,” explains Brian Priebe, IT manager, BancMidwest Services Corp., a subsidiary of Mainstreet Bank. “And now with the emissions reports, we no longer convert our power and cooling cost by hand, the reports calculate our carbon output and translate it into savings down to the penny, which serves as a powerful platform for cost reduction and environmental responsibility." | |
How will Gordon College pay for tech? Run an ISP
March 28, 2008
Compellent customer Gordon College has found a creative way to cover ever-increasing technology costs – without letting it increase students’ tuition. The 1,600-student college in rural Wenham, Mass. plans to provide Internet service to the regional community leveraging the Compellent SAN and use the revenue to subsidize technology costs. |  |
Real Magic with Virtual Snapshots
March 3, 2008
Open Magazine, which tested the Compellent Storage Center with Data Instant Replay, Server Instant Replay, and Remote Instant Replay, found Compellent to be “astonishing” in its level of automation and was impressed with the “powerful synergy” Compellent fostered in a virtualized environment. |  |
Simplifying Virtual Server Management
February 25, 2008
Virtual Strategy, in their review of the Compellent Storage Center, found the Compellent SAN to be “a very advanced virtualization construct that results in a very remarkable value proposition.” Virtual praised the Compellent for the systems ability to use both time-tested solutions and innovate: Compellent “provide[s] the benefits of all three traditional snapshot techniques, while avoiding all of their limitations.” |  |
Compellent: More performance, fewer drives
February 28, 2008
Compellent's Fast Track technology only moves frequently accessed data to the outer tracks of the drive, which accelerates performance and reduces drive requirements. "If a storage system can differentiate between inner and outer tracks on the drive you can avoid putting inactive data or unallocated space on the outer tracks, so you get more performance out of the drives and you can buy fewer of them," says Kornfeld. "This technology can lower storage costs by 50% by reducing the number of drives." |  |
Compellent tools up with SAN manager upgrade
February 20, 2008
“The latest SAN manager software could mean reduction in capital expenditure by 75 percent, a cut in SAN management costs, deliver boot from SAN, recovery from any point in time, real time reporting, Microsoft volume shadow copy integration, unlimited snap shots and increased data availability,” said Bob Fine, Compellent‘s director of product marketing. |  |
Compellent Adds Disk Stroking and App Tuning To SAN
February 20, 2008
Updated with a faster controller and enhancements to its block-level storage automation, Storage Center 4.0 continues Compellent’s tradition of increasing performance while reducing costs. Ping Ooi, associate vice president of technology for Ares Management in Los Angeles, plans to save $50,000 to $80,000 on the cost of disk drives. | |
Automated SAN Finds Lost Storage Space
February 19, 2008
Compellent’s new Storage Center 4.0 is the first SAN to manage data inside the volume, automating tiered storage within every drive and reducing the number of disks needed by as much 80 percent. "Perhaps the most intriguing function [Compellent has] announced, with the most potential market significance, is Thin Import," Mark Peters, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, told eWEEK. "What it essentially does is allow you as an IT manager to address some of the past ills and not only store your existing data more efficiently but also free up whole older storage systems ... which would go to new uses, applications, offices." | |
Compelling Upgrades in Storage Center 4.0
February 19, 2008
Compellent’s newest release – Storage Center 4.0 – takes the guesswork out of both storage planning and budgeting. "We take a new approach when it comes to managing stored data, as we've provided a way to do it inside the volume so that users don't have to live with the guess they took in resource allocation,” said Bob Fine, Compellent's product marketing manager, “We're focused on providing a strong total cost of ownership and bringing reductions both in operational areas and in capital expenses when it comes to managing storage.” |  |
Horticultural Society Puts Tiered Storage Into Action
February 4, 2008
The UK Royal Horticultural Society keeps more information online, implements cost-effective DR, and saves on power costs using Compellent automated tiered storage, block-level Replays, and technology independence. | |
Royal Horticultural Society stores 200,000 images on new storage area network
January 29, 2008
Royal Horticultural Society, a nonprofit botanical organization in the UK, has implemented a cost-effective disaster recovery strategy with Compellent. |  |
Compellent Offers Tool To Calculate Storage TCO
January 28, 2008
The TCO Tool helps customers justify the cost based on an analysis of the number of applications their running, a customers’ growth rate and number of locations, percent of active versus inactive data and the yearly salary of storage administrators. | |
Davenport Group and Compellent - There's more in store for this partnership
January 27, 2008
The Daveport Group, a national data-storage provider and consulting firm, relying solely on Compellent products and its “secret sauce” – personalized service – has doubled revenues in the last two years. |  |
Top Do's and Dont's of iSCSI
January 18, 2008
A look at the keys to success and failure for iSCSI storage networking
DiscoverReady, founded in 2005 to help law firms manage the large volumes of data available for corporate cases, installed Compellent’s iSCSI SAN to centralize data administration. “We started with about 8 Tbytes of data, we have 24 Tbytes now, and we expect to go to 48 Tbytes in the next 12 months,” noted DiscoverReady LLC’s Messing. “So far, the upgrades have been quite easy to complete.” |  |
Storage Technology News
January 15, 2008
A Q&A with CEO Phil Soran covers trends in the storage industry, Compellent's vision for the virtual data center, and innovations in automated tiered storage among other topics. | |
InfoStor Lab Review Compellent's DIR, SIR, and RIR
January 11, 2008
InfoStor reviewed the Compellent Storage Center SAN, praising the benefits of Compellent's block-based storage virtualization and how it enhances Server Instant Replay, Data Instant Replay, thin replication and VMware interoperability. The review showcases how Compellent’s interface makes everything easy – basic configurations, Replay scheduling, storage tiering with Data Progression and Boot from SAN. The story also builds a strong case for how Compellent's unique storage virtualization architecture and innovative applications lower TCO. |  |
Baseline Mag: SAN Size Fits All
January 9, 2008
Using Compellent's Automated Tiered Storage and Thin Provisioning, National Print Group saved $15,000 to $20,000 in disk costs in the first three months alone. |  |
Storage Projects Rise in Importance
January 3, 2008
Overall, it will be practical, incremental moves, such as cutting power consumption and emphasizing centralization, that will emerge as the biggest storage trends in 2008. |  |
University Business: The ABCs of ECM
January 2008
University of North Texas discusses how the Compellent SAN has helped deliver cost savings, dramatically improved utilization and automated storage management for the college. |  |