Compellent Customer Gaston County Wins InfoWorld 100 Award for IT Innovation.County Government Pairs Compellent SAN and VMware to Modernize Data Center and Implement Instant Disaster Recovery EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn. -- Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Arca For other uses of "ARCA", see ARCA. NYSE Arca, previously known as ArcaEx, an abbreviation of Archipelago Exchange, is an entirely online securities exchange on which both stocks and options are traded. : CML 1. CML - A query language. ["Towards a Knowledge Description Language", A. Borgida et al, in On Knowledge Base Management Systems, J. Mylopoulos et al eds, Springer 1986]. 2. CML - Concurrent ML. ) today announced its customer Gaston County, the eighth largest county in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , has been named to the InfoWorld 100, an annual award that honors IT projects that demonstrate the most creative use of cutting-edge technologies to further their business goals. To rein in to check the speed of, or cause to stop, by drawing the reins. to cause (a person) to slow down or cease some activity; - to rein in is used commonly of superiors in a chain of command, ordering a subordinate to moderate or cease some activity deemed excessive. See also: Rein Rein data growth and provide disaster recovery, Gaston County modernized its data center using Compellent storage area network (SAN) systems and VMware-based virtualized servers. The county consolidated 85 third-party and custom applications, a GIS system and an electronic document repository, which houses more than 1 million documents, on the Compellent SAN. The data is replicated to a second SAN to provide disaster recovery for 1,100 users in 35 departments such as emergency medical, transportation and health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract . In the event of data disaster or accidental deletion, Compellent's continuous snapshots and remote replication technology can reduce downtime from one day or more to less than 15 minutes. "Compellent has helped our county transform an aging IT infrastructure to a cutting-edge, virtual data center to deliver better services to our citizens," said Brandon Jackson
To be considered for the InfoWorld 100, projects must stretch beyond the typical, off-the-shelf solution, and must use multiple technologies in innovative ways to serve well-defined business goals. "Whether ushering legacy systems into the agile era or revolutionizing how their companies leverage technology to meaningful ends, this year's winners are both inspiration and proof that striking a new path in IT can reap deep organizational rewards," said InfoWorld Senior Editor Jason Snyder. Gaston County is the latest government entity to deploy the Compellent SAN to extend data storage efficiencies and help overcome the challenges of unrestrained data center growth. By integrating 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. , remote replication and storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. into a single platform managed by an intuitive interface, Compellent can organizations of all sizes cut costs and easily implement a 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. strategy. "We're delighted that Brandon Jackson and his team at Gaston County have been recognized for their vision and innovation," said Phil Soran, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Compellent. "Customers like Gaston County are recognizing that by combining server virtualization and virtualized storage they can achieve the benefits of the data center of the future." After evaluating multiple systems, Gaston County worked closely with Davenport Group, a Compellent business partner, to select and implement the Compellent SAN for the county's award-winning IT modernization and disaster recovery project. "Compellent is the perfect match for customers like Gaston County interested in implementing a virtualization strategy to lower costs and complexity in their data center," said Paul Clifford, principal and founder, Davenport Group. Winners are formally announced today at InfoWorld.com. For more information about the InfoWorld 100, visit http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=93246. About InfoWorld Media Group InfoWorld Media Group helps IT solutions management choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy, for business impact at their organizations. Rather than merely covering the enterprise technology market, InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com. About Compellent 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 Technologies' principal offices are located in Eden Prairie, Minn. For more information, please visit: http://www.compellent.com. |
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