Compellent Awarded Microsoft Gold Partner Certification.Gold Partner status validates Storage Center's seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. and advanced functionality with Microsoft applications MINNEAPOLIS -- Compellent Technologies, a provider of affordable and modular enterprise storage solutions, today announced it has been awarded Microsoft Gold Partner Certification Status. Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of Microsoft's Partner Certification program and have advanced access to engineering and software resources, allowing Compellent to ensure seamless integration with Microsoft products while delivering advanced functionality. In addition to being a Gold Certified partner, Compellent has worked in cooperation with Microsoft to ensure Storage Center's powerful software applicationsawhich provide advanced capabilities like Automated Tiered Storage Automated Tiered Storage is a product from Compellent. It stores information in a database in such way, that information searched for more often is moved to a different tier, producing faster search results. , Thin Provisioning Thin provisioning[1] is a mechanism that applies to large-scale centralized computer disk storage systems, SANs, and storage virtualization systems. Thin provisioning allows space to be easily allocated to servers, on a just-enough and just-in-time basis. , Continuous Snapshots and Thin Replicationaintegrate seamlessly and add value to key Microsoft applications. "Microsoft customers choose Storage Center because it's an ideal storage platform for enterprise applications like Exchange and SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. ," said Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing for Compellent. "For example, using Automated Tiered Storage with Exchange will reduce storage expenditures and increase overall performance." Storage Center's Automated Tiered Storage is easily integrated with Exchange to create a cost-effective email archiving See e-mail archiving. solution. By storing inactive portions of volumes and files on lower-cost storage, Storage Center reduces the overall cost of an Exchange storage environment. In addition, moving inactive blocks of data off high-performance drives frees up spindles to be used for performance-intensive applications, boosting tier-one application performance. Further examples of Compellent working in combination with Microsoft include MPIO MPIO Multipath Input/Output MPIO Multi-Play Internet Audio MPIO Multi Path Input Output certification and integration with Volume Shadow Copy Services Copy services is a term used in IBM storage systems, to describe a group of services that provide a method of copying or moving data from one location to another. Generally a source and target logical disk are required. Data is copied or moved form the source to the target. (VSS See Vcc. ) for backup and recovery. Storage Center's easy-to-use interface is a perfect match for Microsoft administrators because both systems provide a rich set of management tools and intuitive graphical user interfaces. About Storage Center Storage Center builds on its Dynamic Block Architecture 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. About Compellent Compellent delivers affordable, modular storage solutions exclusively through business partners that provide companies of all sizes enterprise 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 $53 million in financing from leading investors including Cargill Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, El Dorado Ventures and The Nomura Group. For more information, visit www.compellent.com. |
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