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. |  |
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. |  |
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. |  |
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: 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. |  |
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. |  |