COMPELLENT SAN
WHO IS COMPELLENT?
Compellent Technologies, Inc, www.compellent.com, headquartered in Minneapolis, USA and listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Arca: CML) was founded in 2002. Compellent is the creator of a unique SAN solution that has revolutionized the way companies purchase and manage storage over the last few years. Compellent has been so successful and popular that the company received many awards over the years including:
- Best SAN of 2008 by InfoWorld
- Microsoft's 2008 Partner of the Year for Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Storage Solutions
- Gold "Best of VMworld 2008" in the Hardware for Virtualization category
Gartner also named Compellent the fastest growing Storage Area Network vendor for the last 3 consecutive years. The InfoPro's Wave 12 Storage Study shows Compellent's ratings for innovation, quality, value and customer satisfaction were higher than key competitors.
Compellent SAN has attracted more than 2500 installations worldwide since its introduction in early 2004. In Singapore, Genesis Networks has worked with several companies who have been delighted with the benefits of Compellent, who chose the solution because it offered the functions of an enterprise system without the complexity or cost.
Compellent's primary solution is a highly scalable storage area network product called Storage Center that is feature-rich and easy to use. Storage Center is designed using industry-standard hardware with Compellent's patented Dynamic Block Architecture, a block-level virtualization technology to create a very powerful, flexible and cost-effective SAN solution.
Storage Center builds on its Dynamic Block Architecture™ to deliver a scalable, open-systems hardware platform allowing businesses to mix and match any number of drives, controllers and enclosures; an integrated foundation of core storage capabilities providing functionality previously available only in high-end systems; a powerful suite of software applications optimizing utilization, automating replication and speeding data recovery; and a single, intuitive, centralized management interface streamlining all storage administration.
The Storage Center solution helps significantly lower storage and infrastructure capital expenditures, reduces the skill level and number of personnel required to manage information, and enables continuous data availability and storage virtualization. Hence companies using the Storage Center can look forward to reducing both capital and operating expenses, while providing the best data availability in the industry.
