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Technology Independence

Investment Protection Without Technology Constraints

Compellent’s standards-based hardware architecture reduces technology risk by providing the capability to mix and match server interface or drive technology, and easily adopt new technologies as they become available. With Compellent’s Persistent Hardware Architecture, you can choose the technologies that make sense for your IT infrastructure today with the flexibility to change technologies as your business needs change over time.



Compellent’s technology independent hardware architecture delivers:

Unmatched Investment Protection: Easily integrate new storage technologies without replacing or discarding existing hardware and software investments.

Connectivity Independence: Front-end and back-end technology independence enables the simultaneous mixing and matching of any server interface and/or drive technology

Flexible Configurations: Design a system with the speed and bandwidth your business requires
Key Benefits
  • Technology independence allows you to adopt new technology, protecting your investment
  • Optimize performance and cost by picking the right technology for each application
  • Eliminate technology risk with the ability to continuously adopt and integrate new technologies
  • Easily upgrade within or across technologies, incorporating new functionality as it becomes available

The Compellent Advantage
CompellentOthers Typically
Server interface independenceRestrict the type of interface and do not allow simultaneous use of multiple interface types, cannot mix Fibre Channel with iSCSI
Drive independence – simultaneously mix and match drivesRestrict drive set based on capacity, speed or interface and add drives in fixed increments, cannot mix Fibre Channel, SATA in the same system
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