Microsoft
Compellent and Microsoft
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Compellent collaborates extensively with Microsoft to ensure seamless integration between our powerful Fluid Data software suite and business-critical applications such as Exchange and SQL Server. Compellent partners with Microsoft so well that it was honored as a 2008 Partner of the Year Winner and a 2009 Partner of the Year Finalist. Microsoft also selected Compellent as a core storage component of the Microsoft Partner Solution Center (MPSC) virtualization and disaster recovery program, as well as the Microsoft Customer Technology Services (CTS) incident simulation and resolution cloud initiative.
How Compellent Enhances Windows Environments
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Storage Virtualization amplifies the benefits of server virtualization, creating a shared pool of storage available to all Hyper-V virtual machines all the time
- A PowerShell-based command set automates common tasks to streamline storage management
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Replay Manager works in unison with Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) for consistent Windows data even if applications are running during snapshots
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Automated Tiered Storage dynamically migrates inactive blocks of Exchange and other Microsoft application data to less expensive storage
- Free Space Recovery reclaims blocks of data deleted at the file level for optimal disk utilization
- Multi-Path I/O (MPIO) keeps critical applications online with fault-tolerant server connectivity
- A unified SAN/NAS platform combines file-level access with block-level efficiencies