First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. Selects Compellent SAN for Increased Performance and Cost-Effective Data Storage ExpansionDecember 4, 2006
Automated Tiered Storage reduces storage expenditures by 45 percent and doubles performance without additional administrative effort
Minneapolis, Dec. 4, 2006 — Compellent Technologies, a provider of affordable and modular enterprise storage solutions, today announced First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: FR), the nation’s largest provider of diversified industrial real estate, has selected Compellent’s Storage Center™ storage area network (SAN) to deliver an automated tiered storage environment that increases storage performance and reduces ongoing expansion costs.
First Industrial owns and operates more than 100 million square feet of industrial real estate in markets throughout the United States, serving more than 3,000 tenants across its portfolio. Prior to installing Compellent, First Industrial’s IT administrators were regularly adding disk space and manually moving data between silos in an effort to keep up with increasing capacity and performance requirements driven by the company’s growth. Storing historic customer data and archived email files alongside active financial analysis was expensive and was impacting performance for I/O intensive applications.
“Considering the cost, performance and time savings, the Compellent system provides unmatched value,” said Nick Colakovic, director of information technology for First Industrial. “With Storage Center’s Automated Tiered Storage, we have cut our tier one disk purchases by 45 percent while doubling the performance of our primary business applications, including Exchange and Oracle.”
Compellent’s SAN provides First Industrial with an automated tiered storage environment. For example, individual blocks of large Microsoft Exchange .pst files are now automatically classified and migrated to the optimum tier of storage based on usage. With First Industrial’s Oracle databases, the SAN automatically migrated 70 percent of the data—all inactive—to a lower-cost tier of storage, freeing up the Fibre Channel tray for more intensive I/O and delaying additional Fibre Channel disk requirements.
Compellent distributes exclusively through a select national network of business partners that are trusted advisors on their client’s technology decisions. StorCOM, a regional data storage consulting firm, worked closely with First Industrial to understand their requirements and design a tiered storage solution that delivers performance and functionality an affordable price. “By automatically moving inactive data off Fibre Channel drives, Storage Center increases performance and saves First Industrial time and money,” said StorCOM’s President, Jeff James.
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.