The area of centralized storage
technology is becoming more and more prevalent in the IT industry
today. No longer are shared storage devices such as storage area
networks (SAN) only available to large sized businesses with large
sized budgets. Ideal Integrations has seen this growing business need
and partnered with Compellent Technologies, a leader in storage area
network technology. In doing so, we have brought SAN technology and all
of its benefits to a number of organizations.
Below is a description of some of the
benefits of the Compellent SAN, for more information, contact an Ideal
Integrations representative.
The Compellent
Storage Center: Go Beyond the Boundaries of Traditional
Storage Systems
Utilizing Compellent’s
innovative architecture, Storage Center manages your data differently.
Storage Center combines a suite of powerful software applications and a
modular hardware platform to deliver an integrated solution that
overcomes the limitations of traditional storage systems.
Storage Center intelligently
stores, recovers and manages your data, enabling you to:
Reduce storage costs
Cut storage administration time
Ensure continuous data availability
Storage Center is a highly scalable,
feature-rich storage area network with integrated hardware and software
that improves utilization, automates replication and speeds data
recovery; managed by a single user interface streamlining all storage
administration.
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 integrated
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 enables businesses to quickly and affordably
establish disaster recovery practices. Create an unlimited number of
snapshots, called "Replays" and replicate between primary and remote
sites allowing multiple locations to serve as recovery points. Remote
Instant Replay’s Thin Replication increases replication
efficiency, consuming less space and reducing hardware, bandwidth and
management costs. With Remote Instant Replay enable you to ensure
business continuity at a fraction of the cost of other replication
solutions.
Enterprise Manager
Compellent’s Enterprise Manager simplifies administration and
planning by providing a complete view of your Compellent SAN
environment. Using Enterprise Manager, a single administrator can
monitor multiple Compellent SANs and setup replication in as few as 6
clicks. Comprehensive reports simplify capacity planning, optimize
performance and quickly identify any issues that occur. All of this
helps to reduce the operational costs of your growing storage
environment.
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.
