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Compellent Delivers First Entry-Level Storage Area Network with Advanced Features and Unlimited Expansion
Storage Center QuickStart enables businesses to scale storage capacity and capabilities from entry-level to enterprise on a single platform
Minneapolis, August 23, 2004 — Compellent Technologies, a provider of modular, affordable storage solutions distributed exclusively through a select national network of business partners, today set a new standard for entry-level network storage solutions with the introduction of Storage Center QuickStart. Overcoming previous hurdles to SAN implementation, Storage Center QuickStart is the first entry-level storage area network (SAN) to deliver unprecedented flexibility and unlimited expansion in a full-featured, affordable solution.
Storage Center QuickStart was designed around the needs of small-and medium-size businesses that are considering the move from direct-attached storage to a SAN. Unlike other entry-level systems that offer a reduced feature set, force excess storage purchases or result in a dead-end growth path, Storage Center QuickStart's modular architecture is built to grow and enables any business to easily scale from one to 100 terabytes (TB) or more on the same platform.
Storage Center QuickStart includes enterprise features like Dynamic Capacity, which cuts storage costs in half by only using disk space when data is written, and Data Instant Replay, which reduces recovery time to minutes by automating continuous, space-efficient point-in-time copies of a company's data.
"Many first-time SAN deployments fall short because current systems lack the robust set of features required to fully address todays' needs and don't' provide a cost-effective platform for future growth," said Phil Soran, chief executive officer for Compellent. "With the rate at which both businesses and their storage needs continue to grow, delivering anything less than a fully capable, modular solution to the storage user would be irresponsible."
Storage Center QuickStart
Storage Center QuickStart is a pre-configured, entry-level system that contains all the necessary hardware—including Fibre Channel (also SATA and iSCSI-ready) storage and a choice of single or dual-controller configurations—and software components for a customer's first SAN, along with a set of full-featured industry capabilities that others do not offer, including:
- Assign unlimited disk space to any application without having the physical capacity in the SAN
- Automate recovery by creating unlimited, space-efficient point-in-time copies of data
- Manage every storage function from a single, unified interface regardless of application or size
- Expand volumes online without disruption or downtime
- Scale from 1 to 100TB or more on the same platform
- Add any number of disk drives, enclosures and controllers to scale performance, capacity and availability
- Boot from SAN using highly efficient server images instead of dedicated server disk drives
Availability, Pricing and Product Demonstration
Storage Center QuickStart is available through a select national network of Compellent business partners. For a live product demonstration, pricing or more detailed product information, a Certified Compellent Business Partner can be contacted at www.compellent.com/partner/find.html
About Storage Center
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.
About Compellent
Compellent delivers affordable, modular storage solutions exclusively through business partners that provide companies of all sizes enterprise-level storage capabilities without big system costs or complexities. Designed by network storage and virtualization pioneers, Compellent enables any business to cut storage expenditures in half, recover from data hazards within minutes, scale to any capacity across any technology and easily manage its storage without adding staff. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn., Compellent has raised more than $23 million in financing from leading investors including Cargill Ventures, Crescendo Ventures and El Dorado Ventures. For more information, visit www.compellent.com
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