Compellent

STORAGE CENTER^™ HARDWARE
Storage Center’s modular hardware platform offers unprecedented flexibility and unlimited growth – all within a system designed for continuous availability. This modular hardware architecture enables the continuous integration of new storage technologies without forcing companies to replace or discard their existing hardware and software investments.

• Technology Independence
  Storage Center’s standards-based hardware architecture delivers unmatched investment protection. With Storage Center you can mix and match server interface or drive technology, and easily adopt new technologies as they become available.
  
  
• Modular, Scalable System
  Storage Center allows you to grow without limits, enabling multiple methods to scale your storage without forcing difficult technology choices. With Storage Center’s modular, build-as-you-grow architecture, you can add capacity, connectivity and performance incrementally to match demand rather than purchasing resources up front you may never use.
  
  
• Highly Available, Clustered Architecture
  Storage Center is architected for high availability with a no single point of failure design, fully redundant hardware and advanced failover features. Storage Center’s clustered controllers deliver uninterrupted data access.
  

STORAGE CENTER^™ SOFTWARE
Compellent's Storage Center Software places enterprise storage capabilities at customers' fingertips through a powerful suite of software applications optimizing utilization, automating replication and speeding data recovery - and an integraged foundation of core storage capabilities providing functionality previously available only in high-end systems.

• Automated Tiered Storage
  Storage Center's Data Progression is a complete hardware and software solution that fully automates tiered storage. Data Progression automatically classifies and migrates data to the optimum tier of storage based on usage, allowing business to retain frequently accessed data on high performance storage and store infrequently accessed data on lower cost storage. By maintaining all data online and optimizing placement across multiple storage tiers, companies can purchase less storage overall and increase service levels.
  
  
• Thin Provisioning
  By only consuming physical disk when data is written, as opposed to allocating capacity upfront, Storage Center's Dynamic Capacity cuts your overall storage expenditures in half. You can easily allocate volumes of any size that only consume the physical disk needed - dramatically reducing spending, increasing availability and boosting performance. You no longer need to over commit idle disk resources to avoid painful volume expansion operations. Managing actual instead of allocated space also improves the performance of operations such as copy, replication and rebuilds.
  
  
• Continuous Snapshots
  Storage Center's Data Instant Replay creates space-efficient copies, called Replays, to provide extremely fast recovery from any type of data hazard. Intuitive templates enable you to easily create automated Replay schedules that meet your requirements, without restraints from your storage system. Storage Center's efficient architecture allows the creation of unlimited Replays that consume minimal storage space. Use Replays to test new applications or new versions of operating systems on actual data without risk.
  
  
• Remote Replication
  Storage Center's Remote Instant Replay in combination with Data Instant Replay provides powerful business continuance. Create any combination of point-in-time copies, called Replays, between local and remote data centers. Establish frequent local Replays, with periodic replication to a remote location, implementing business continuance practices previously too expensive or complex. Create multiple online remote copies automatically and simultaneously at multiple sites with Remote Instant Replay and leapfrog traditional tape recovery stratagies.
  
  
• Advanced Virtualization
  Compellent's Advanced Virtualization features provide shared storage without restrictions. Because Compellent virtualizes at the disk-level within Storage Center, you can manage all your disk drives as a single resource, increasing storage performance, availability and utilization. This disk-level virtualization accelerates data access by spreading read/write operations across all disk drives in the SAN so multiple requests are processed in parallel.
  

STORAGE CENTER^™ INTERFACE
Storage Center’s unified interface cuts administrative time in half by automating time-consuming, repetitive storage monitoring and capacity planning tasks. This easy to use interface spans the entire set of technologies, capabilities and configurations, allowing you to seamlessly integrate and manage Storage Center’s powerful software applications.

Regardless of the size or configuration of your system, Storage Center’s intuitive point-and-click interface enables rapid set up and installation and streamlined management from a centralized location.

Key Benefits

• System is fully configured and ready for production data in minutes
• Intuitive, centralized interface minimizes training and eliminates need for specialized skills
• Complex allocation, configuration and administration functions are easily accomplished with wizards to guide the process
• Manage individual or multiple systems through the same, single interface
• Storage consumption and usage trends are instantly monitored and displayed, eliminating time-consuming manual capacity planning