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Data Progression™

The Industry's Only SAN with Automated Tiered Storage

Storage Center's Data Progression is a complete hardware and software solution that delivers fully automated tiered storage. Data progression cuts administrative time and reduces overall storage costs by dynamically classifying and moving data at the block-level between tiers of storage based on frequency of access. This complete Automated Tiered Storage solution does not require time consuming data classification and the repetitive manual transfer of data between tiers.

Automated Tiered Storage Saves Time and Money



Data Progression automatically migrates data to the preferred tier of storage, allowing you to:

Spend Less, Store More.
Seamlessly implement a tiered storage solution and store inactive data on lower cost, high capacity drives, increasing available storage capacity and reducing overall costs.

Reduce Administrative Time. Cut time-consuming manual data classification and data movement by fully automating tiered storage processes.

Improve Business Continuity and Operational Efficiency. Increase business continuity and storage performance by storing all snapshots on lower cost, higher capacity SATA drives, enabling more recovery points that can be kept online longer.
Key Benefits
  • Reduce disk expenditures
  • Cut storage administrative time
  • Eliminate cost and complexity of ILM
  • Improve business continuity - store frequent Replays
  • Dramatically increase performance by moving inactive data off Fibre Channel Drives

The Compellent Advantage
CompellentOthers Typically
Automated classificationRequire manual time-intensive, company-wide data classification efforts
Automated bi-directional data movementRequire integration and management of migration software package or manual data movement
Mix technologies in a single enclosureSupport a single technology per enclosure
Define tiers by disk drive type, RAID level, rotational speedLimit tier definition to technology
Customer Testimonial
“Data Progression is awesome. I have a 15 TB system, and without Data Progression, I would probably have a 50 or 60 TB system.”

James Blackwood
Senior Systems Engineer
HighJump Software
Automated Tiered Storage
97% of Compellent customers can monitor data movement in under 30 minutes.
Related Collateral
Data Progression Datasheet: The industry's only SAN with Automated Tiered Storage.

Whitehall City School District Case Study: reduction of disk enclosures and simplified storage administration.

Automated Tiered Storage White Paper: Automating Tiered Storage in an Exchange environment.
Featured Downloads
Automated Tiered Storage Video: See how easy it is to achieve ILM with Storage Center.

Fast Track Video: Reduce drive counts up to 30% without sacrificing performance.



ESG Report: Intelligent Tiered Storage - Focus on Compellent's in-the-box tiering.



The Info-Pro Research Paper: Understanding how ILM is evolving.