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Compellent’s Defining Technology – Working with SSDs at the Block Level

Bob by Bob Fine, Director of Product Marketing — October 29, 2008

We understand – SSDs are expensive – but we’re making them work for users both in performance and affordability. When planning the launch of Compellent’s SSD solution, we pulled out all the stops to figure out how users could maximize efficiency, and ultimately we determined the drive approach would be most adoptable and scalable. See what Martin Glassborow had to say about what we’re doing on his blog. Only the most frequently accessed blocks of data (rather than complete LUNs or volumes) earn “tier 0” storage – it’s for applications that can really take advantage of the performance boost from SSD technology. Questions about how we are able to help our end-users manage this, look no further than this post from our CTO Larry Aszmann.