Compellent's Storage Center Qualified as Interoperable With McDATA's Intrepid, Sphereon and Eclipse Technologies October 3, 2005
Minneapolis, Oct. 3, 2005 — Compellent Technologies, a provider of modular and affordable enterprise storage solutions, announced today the availability of McDATA’s Intrepid 6140 Director as part of a complete storage solution in its storage area network (SAN) Storage Center. As one of McDATA’s global Storage Solution Remarketers, Compellent makes McDATA’s Intrepid Fibre Channel directors, Sphereon fabric switches and Eclipse SAN routers available to customers.
“McDATA Intrepid directors deliver the ultra-high availability and core functionality required by enterprise customers,” said Doug Ingraham, vice president of product management for McDATA. “Incorporating our products with Compellent’s Storage Center helps customers build a storage infrastructure solution that delivers unmatched reliability and performance while providing uninterrupted access to their information.”
Fully supported within Compellent’s Storage Center, McDATA’s Intrepid directors and Sphereon fabric switches enable companies to implement the appropriate switching resource best suited to the level of availability and throughput required. McDATA Eclipse SAN routers connect storage resources and deliver multivendor, multi-protocol connectivity within the data center and beyond.
“The expansion of our existing Compellent SAN to utilize the Intrepid 6140 was straightforward and seamless, providing the performance and high-availability that is required to safeguard our business data and client records,” said Mike Dufek, director of information systems, Munder Capital Management. Munder Capital Management manages more than $35 billion dollars in assets. “The ability to modularly expand our system as our business grows was one of the primary reasons we selected Compellent.”
Compellent’s open-systems hardware architecture enables the continuous integration and adoption of new storage technologies without forcing companies to replace or discard their existing hardware and software investment.
“We are pleased to work with McDATA to provide our customers with a choice of innovative, enterprise-class components that extend and enhance Storage Center,” said Bob Fine, Product Marketing Manager, Compellent. “Support for McDATA’s entire portfolio of storage infrastructure technologies demonstrates how Storage Center’s open-systems hardware architecture gives users the freedom to grow without limits.”
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.