The soaring energy costs and sprawling space requirements of a rapidly growing data center have increased the importance of efficiency in the IT department. Compellent’s easy-to-deploy storage makes it possible to be both economical and eco-friendly.
With advanced functionality including, automated tiered storage, space-efficient snapshots and thin provisioning, Compellent offers a significant advantage over traditional SANs—maximizing existing assets and reducing costs, footprint and energy needs in the data center.
Purchasing a Compellent SAN doesn’t just save on the sticker price. Thick Provisioned SANs cost more to maintain, forcing you to power, cool and house more disks than necessary. Compellent’s Automated Tiered Storage increases storage savings by making it easy to leverage more energy and cost-effective disks.
Economical Benefits
» Thin Provisioning provides as-you-grow scalability, eliminating the need to over-purchase and over-power unused disk space.
» Advanced storage virtualization amplifies server virtualization, cutting power and cooling costs up to 93 percent.
» Boot from SAN can save as much as $70,000 for every 25 blade servers connected to the Compellent SAN.
» Automated Tiered Storage automatically classifies and migrates inactive data to more energy-efficient and cost-effective drives.
Environmental Benefits
» Enterprise Manager’s power and carbon reports guide a green IT strategy—identifying the ideal mix of disks and saving on unnecessary cooling and power upgrades for the data center.
» Boot from SAN eliminates the power draw of internal server disk drives without server-based software or third-party applications.
» Virtualization significantly reduces the data center footprint, conserves energy and reduces CO2 emissions.
» Economizing the data center reduces more than disk count. It saves on upgrades to generators, power infrastructure, cooling equipment and facility expansions.