CommandGlobal Selects Compellent SAN as Foundation for Data Archival and Recovery Service.MINNEAPOLIS -- Storage Center Enterprise Storage Solution Provides Unlimited Expansion with Single, Unified Interface Compellent Technologies, a provider of modular, affordable storage solutions distributed exclusively through a select national network of business partners, today announced CommandGlobal Inc., a leading, Dallas-based business continuity and information security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the provider, has selected Compellent's Storage Center storage area network (SAN) as the underlying technology for a new data archival and recovery service. "With Storage Center we can cost-effectively grow our new data archival and recovery service without adding additional administrative staff," said Roman Maddox, system administrator for CommandGlobal. Built on top of the Compellent SAN, CommandGlobal's Data Vaulting Transmitting data to a computer in a different location for backup. (TM) service is a completely automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. , professionally managed service that duplicates server data and archives it in a secure, offsite data center ensuring that critical business information is available for immediate recovery. Compellent's Storage Center is a modular SAN that enables any business to purchase significantly less storage, recover from data hazards within minutes, scale to any capacity across any technology, and manage its storage without adding staff. "Our customers are demanding simple, cost-effective solutions to reliably archive and recover data," said Stefan Pryor, chief executive officer of CommandGlobal. "By using Storage Center we are able to provide small- and medium-sized businesses with a safety net to rapidly recover from data crises." Aegis, a regional data storage consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a and Compellent business partner, worked with CommandGlobal to select and install the Compellent SAN. "Storage Center's advanced features and simplified administration will help CommandGlobal meet growing customer demand for this valuable data archival and recovery service," said Mike Brazleton, vice president of business development for Aegis Consulting. Speeding Data Recovery Archiving data to a remote site has traditionally taken place with magnetic tape media - a scenario that frequently causes the data recovery process to last several days. The disk backup technology used in Storage Center allows for data recovery in minutes or hours instead of days. As business users increasingly expect 24x7, uninterrupted access to email and file services, systems administrators are replicating their critical business data to disk-based storage at a remote site, which can be quickly and automatically brought online in case of a failure at the main site. Storage Center gives administrators the unlimited expansion and flexibility they need to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. and maintain disk-based storage. About Storage Center Storage Center builds on its Dynamic Block Architecture(TM) 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 In database management, the ability to keep distributed databases synchronized by routinely copying the entire database or subsets of the database to other servers in the network. There are various replication methods. and speeding data recovery; and a single, intuitive, centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. 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 An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. 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 Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn., Compellent has raised more than $23 million in financing from leading investors including Cargill Ventures, Crescendo cres·cen·do n. pl. cres·cen·dos or cres·cen·di 1. Abbr. cr. Music a. A gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound in a passage. b. Ventures and El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America. Ventures. For more information, visit www.compellent.com. |
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