The Compellent Solution
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's Storage Center is a Storage Area Network (SAN) that is designed to significantly lower storage and infrastructure capital expenditures, reduce the skill level and number of personnel required to manage information and enable continuous data availability and storage virtualization.
Compellent was founded by a team of network storage and virtualization pioneers Phil Soran, John Guider and Larry Aszmann - executives with decades of storage experience and a proven track record for developing innovative storage technologies and successful businesses.
Traditional storage vendors promise to reduce the amount of time and money spent on storage, but instead deliver a patchwork of complicated and inefficient point products that are difficult to learn, integrate and manage.
By starting from scratch, without the burden of software legacy code and the limitations of a proprietary hardware platform, Compellent developed an innovative SAN that reduces storage costs, cuts storage administration time, and provides continuous data availability.
VISIONARY STRATEGY, REVOLUTIONARY PRODUCTStorage DNA
Founded in March 2002, Compellent Technologies is led by network storage and virtualization pioneers Phil Soran, John Guider and Larry Aszmann — executives with decades of storage experience and a proven track record for developing innovative storage technologies and successful businesses.
Realizing that traditional storage vendors deliver a patchwork of complicated and inefficient point products that are difficult to learn, integrate and manage, Compellent’s leaders decided to start from scratch to deliver on the promise of Storage Area Networks (SANs). By starting fresh, without the burden of software legacy code and the limitations of a proprietary hardware platform, Compellent developed a revolutionary SAN that reduces storage costs, cuts storage administration time, and provides continuous data availability.
Today, with over 550 end users, a growing international distribution network of channel partners, and award-winning recognition as the most innovative SAN on the market, Compellent is poised to continue its rapid ascent in enterprise storage.
Launching Compellent’s Storage Center SAN
Since its introduction in early 2004, Compellent’s Storage Center SAN solution has attracted more than 550 customers worldwide, a strong network of business partners and widespread industry acclaim for the product’s combination of sophistication, flexibility and ease of use.
Though many large enterprises reap benefits from implementing a SAN, they are aggravated by the expensive and complex collection of point products provided by most SAN vendors. Businesses often find themselves locked into a single hardware or software platform that can’t be upgraded, and administrators are frustrated with time wasted managing systems that are complex and time-consuming to operate.
Storage Center leverages its Dynamic Block Architecture to deliver an integrated solution that overcomes the limitations of traditional storage systems. Building on our Dynamic Block Architecture, Storage Center’s software applications intelligently improve data movement and access at the block-level, increasing utilization, automating tiered storage, simplifying replication and speeding data and disaster recovery.
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.
By managing data differently, Storage Center:
In fact, Compellent’s Storage Center is the industry’s ONLY SAN with Automated Tiered Storage. Storage Center’s Data Progression automates tiered storage without the time consuming data classification or the repetitive, manual transferring of data in between tiers associated with other storage and ILM solutions. This innovation has led to industry-wide recognition for Compellent’s entire feature set.
As a long-standing and trusted partner, the company works closely with a broad network of resellers, OEMs and other suppliers to meet customers' evolving data protection needs.