Krieg DeVault Makes the Case for CompellentFebruary 21, 2007
Compellent Networked Storage Replication Technology and Ease of Use Help Law Firm Recover Case Files in 10 Minutes, Cut Storage Costs by 50 Percent
Eden Prairie, Minn., Feb. 21, 2007 — Compellent Technologies, a provider of affordable and modular enterprise storage solutions, today announced Krieg DeVault, a 130 year-old prominent commercial law firm, has selected Compellent’s storage area network (SAN) to provide continuous data protection of its critical data. Compellent’s modular design and intuitive Storage Center software have enabled Krieg DeVault, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, to dramatically reduce the time required to back up and recover its information, and achieve significant cost savings.
With 15 practice areas and global clients in healthcare, government, intellectual property and banking industries, Krieg DeVault’s lawyers require about 10 TB storage capacity to house and continuously protect thousands of case files, financial statements and other electronic data. The previous SAN was inefficient and costly to manage because administrators had to guess upfront their storage needs resulting in wasted and under-allocated capacity. Additionally, recovery of accidentally deleted data required 24 hours notice at minimum to retrieve backup tapes from a remote site.
Krieg DeVault takes advantage of Compellent’s easy-to-use suite of applications like Data Instant Replay to perform continuous snapshots, or copies, of the data and Remote Instant Replay to enable remote replication faster than with traditional storage systems.
"Using Compellent we can restore critical files in the 10 minutes it would have taken just to make a phone call to the tape vault in the past," said George Smith, director of information technology for Krieg DeVault. "That's a huge savings for us - we've cut not only our time to recover but also our cost to recover. We don’t expect to spend any significant time managing the Compellent SAN."
"Usability and flexibility are often-overlooked, but incredibly important considerations for companies like Krieg DeVault dealing with rampant growth and constrained IT resources," said Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing for Compellent. "Compellent’s all-in-one design is helping Krieg DeVault stay ahead of the competition by doing more with its data in less time, while saving money and unnecessary frustration."
By combining different storage disk types and interface technologies into a single, unified system, Compellent cuts the law firm’s costs of managing its information in half. Krieg DeVault can transfer Replays over low-cost Ethernet connections to a remote SAN configured with cost-effective mid-tier drives, saving 50 percent over traditional replication offerings. Compellent Thin Replication also allows Krieg DeVault administrators to remotely confirm replication success with a few mouse clicks and test disaster recovery with no impact on its IT operations.
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 http://www.compellent.com.