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Compellent is a leading provider of enterprise-class network
storage solutions that are highly scalable, feature-rich and designed to be easy
to use and cost effective. Compellent Technologies' principal offices are
located in Eden Prairie, Minn. For more information, please visit:
http://www.compellent.com.
see also:-
Compellent
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- If you're looking at Compellent you'll find competing
alternative vendors in these directories:-
SAN storage,
rackmount SSDs
and ASAPs.
Compellent milestones in recent
SSD market
history
In October 2008 - Compellent announced support
for
SSDs - a feature which is
being tested and expected to be generally available in Q2 2009.
"The
Compellent SAN will reserve frequently accessed, active blocks of data for
"tier 0"
storage for applications like transactional databases that can take advantage of
the significant performance gains of SSDs, and dynamically move inactive data
blocks to lower storage tiers."
In March 2009 -
Compellent
announced
it would demonstrate its tiered SSD technology at a user event in May 2009.
The physical layer is based on
STEC's ZeusIOPS SSDs.
The soft part, something which Compellent calls
policy
driven Data Progression apparently " minimizes the number of SSDs
required while providing the highest levels of performance for mission-critical
applications."
In June 2009 - Compellent announced
results generated through attendee polling conducted at its annual customer
conference in May.
91%
of business partners and 78% of customers responded important, very
important or critical when asked, "What is your level of interest in
evaluating SSDs in your
environment?"
In February 2010 -
Compellent published
a
case
study (pdf) - which shows the benefits of
automated
tiering
SAN storage - applied to
the online marketing of real estate. Demonstrating the flexibility of Compellent’s
"Fluid Architecture" their customer -
WhereToLive.com - is quoted as saying
- “With the Compellent system... I’m able to get a million-dollar SAN
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| Need SSD
Acceleration ASAP? - see SSD ASAPs |
| Editor:- December 18, 2009 -
StorageSearch.com
published an article which discusses
the pros and cons of
using SSD ASAPs - Auto-tuning SSD Accelerated Pools of storage. |
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How can server users easily
decide if they should ignore these products - or spend more time looking at
them? It's going to be a huge market. ...read the article | | | | |
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