Compellent Announces Remote Instant Replay(TM), New Storage Center Application Delivers Business Continuance to the Midmarket; Compellent's SAN Provides Affordable, Verifiable IP-Based Replication to Multiple Sites Using Low-Cost Bandwidth.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Compellent Technologies, a provider of affordable and modular enterprise storage solutions, today announced the availability of Remote Instant Replay, a new Storage Center(TM) application that delivers affordable, verifiable IP-based replication to multiple business locations over long distances using low-cost lines. Remote Instant Replay provides enterprise-level disaster recovery capabilities to midmarket organizations at an affordable price for the first time. E[acute accent]"More than ever, surviving a disaster is synonymous with staying in business," said Tony Asaro, senior analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group. "ESG Research found that 51 percent of businesses relying on tape backups as a way to recover from a disaster felt they were exposed to potential data loss. Remote Instant Replay delivers the enterprise features, economics and ease-of-use required to help solve this problem." E[acute accent]Costs are reduced by supporting replication over lower-cost lines and connecting directly via an iSCSI card in the controller without a third-party protocol converter. Costs are further reduced by enabling businesses to replicate over IP using their existing networks, infrastructure and staff. E[acute accent]"Midmarket companies understand that their entire company could be at risk if they are unable to recover their data quickly and easily," said Phil Soran, co-founder and CEO, Compellent. "With Remote Instant Replay, Compellent has removed the primary obstacles to disaster recovery by delivering IP-based replication in a package that is powerful, inexpensive and reliable." E[acute accent]Remote Instant Replay enables businesses to quickly and affordably replicate continuous snapshots, called "Replays", between local and remote sites - implementing business continuance practices with the granularity required to recover to any point in time. E[acute accent]Remote Instant Replay enables a company to verify disaster recovery online in just minutes. Within Storage Center, an administrator can test recovery while the replication is still in progress without risking corruption or disruption of the data. E[acute accent]Any number of sites can actively and simultaneously replicate to each other without the need and expense of a dedicated site with duplicate configurations. For example, multiple branches can replicate to each other or into a single primary location, providing a business the flexibility to automatically create remote copies of data at multiple business locations. E[acute accent]Unlike typical storage replication offerings, Remote Instant Replay does not require identical storage area network (SAN) configurations between the primary and remote location(s). For example, the primary location could consist of a high-performance Fibre Channel SAN while a remote location is configured with lower-cost SATA disk. E[acute accent]Administrators can also limit the amount of bandwidth available to each replicating volume to avoid over-consumption during peak time periods and to ensure a fair distribution of bandwidth if multiple replications are running concurrently.

E[acute accent]Additional capabilities of Remote Instant Replay include:

E[acute accent]--Replication over Fibre Channel or TCP/IP 

E[acute accent]--All sites are active and available for recovery

E[acute accent]--Replication schedules/intervals for each location can be different

E[acute accent]--Available bandwidth can be metered based on line speed, packet size, frequency and time of day

E[acute accent]--Establish replication schedules on a per-volume basis

E[acute accent]--Replication can be enabled in bi-directional point-to-point or multipoint configurations

E[acute accent]--Replication can be synchronous or asynchronous 

E[acute accent]About Storage Center

E[acute accent]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 and speeding data recovery; and a single, intuitive, centralized management interface streamlining all storage administration.

E[acute accent]About Compellent

E[acute accent]Compellent delivers affordable, modular storage solutions exclusively through business partners that provide companies of all sizes with enterprise storage capabilities without big system costs or complexities. Designed by network storage and virtualization 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, Minn., Compellent has raised more than $38 million in financing from leading investors including Cargill Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Crescendo Ventures and El Dorado Ventures. For more information, visit www.compellent.com.