The Oliver Group Selects Compellent Storage Area Network to Speed Data Administration and Prepare for Rapid Growth May 24, 2005
Compellent's Dynamic Capacity enables unlimited expansion while reducing storage administration time by 65%
Minneapolis, May 24, 2005 — Compellent Technologies, a provider of modular, affordable storage solutions distributed exclusively through a select national network of business partners, today announced The Oliver Group, an industry leader in litigation support and data recovery, has selected Compellent’s Storage CenterTM storage area network (SAN) to speed data storage administration and improve customer service.
The Oliver Group provides data restoration and conversion services for legal customers, receiving more than 80 terabytes of data each week on a variety of storage media and in numerous data formats. The firm converts all data into a single, search-friendly format and delivers 15 to 20 terabytes of data to their clients on sets of hard drives.
“With our business experiencing year-over-year growth of 250 percent, we required a storage solution that would allow us to create new multi-terabyte volumes in minutes, not hours,” said Brian Oliver, founder and chief executive officer, The Oliver Group. “Storage Center’s Dynamic Capacity allows us to easily create and resize volumes on a platform that will scale to meet our future growth. As a result, we are able to offer new services and a higher standard of customer service to our clients.”
Compellent’s powerful capacity planning and provisioning feature, Dynamic Capacity, completely separates storage allocation from utilization. Users can allocate any size virtual volume upfront yet only consume actual physical capacity when the data is written by the application.
Previously, The Oliver Group was forced to spread and manage disk space across 90 different servers, each with its own internal storage. With Dynamic Capacity, The Oliver Group is now creating volumes of any size from a single pool of storage that only consumes physical disk when data is written — without over-allocating to avoid shortages, without any downtime for volume expansion and without purchasing and installing storage upfront.
Winslow Technology Group, a regional data storage consulting firm and a Compellent business partner, assisted The Oliver Group with the decision to move to the Compellent SAN. “Storage Center is giving The Oliver Group dozens of hours each month of additional productivity. The flexible and scaleable Compellent SAN will support the company’s rapid growth moving forward,” said Scott Winslow, chief executive officer for Winslow Technology Group.
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.