Compellent Customers Win 2008 InfoWorld 100 Awards for Improving Disaster Recovery and Virtualization Services.Kansas Spine Hospital, Tidewater Marine and University of Florida's Warrington College of Business Administration The Warrington College of Business Administration (WCBA) is the business school at the University of Florida. About 8000 students are enrolled in classes, including undergraduates and graduate students, including Master of Business Administration and Ph.D.-seeking students. Honored for Innovative Use of the Compellent SAN 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 three customers, Kansas Spine Hospital, Tidewater Marine and University of Florida's Warrington School of Business Administration, each received an InfoWorld 100 award for their innovative disaster recovery 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. initiatives using the Compellent storage area network (SAN). InfoWorld's annual awards honor companies for IT projects that exemplify intelligent and creative uses of technology to meet business and technical objectives. "We are committed to providing customers with next-generation technology to build efficient, reliable, virtual data centers that grow with evolving business needs," explained Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing, Compellent. "Having three customers recognized by the InfoWorld 100 for their vision and technology leadership using Compellent's Storage Center SAN is not only a huge honor, but also a testament to the innovation and interoperability behind our technology." As one of the nation's first fully digital, paperless and filmless healthcare facilities, Kansas Spine Hospital needed a flexible, long-term storage solution to manage its rapidly growing patient data and provide enterprise-class disaster recovery. Mike Knocke, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. at Kansas Spine Hospital, implemented three Compellent SANs replicating to each other and utilized 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 and storage virtualization to consolidate server operations in a virtualized VMware environment. "Kansas Spine Hospital prides itself on being one of the most technologically advanced healthcare facilities in the country, and a foundation for that is the flexibility and intelligent storage management features of the Compellent SAN," said Mike Knocke, chief information officer, Kansas Spine Hospital. "Being recognized for one of the most innovative IT projects of the year by InfoWorld is a great honor, and one that we're very proud to receive." After facing Hurricane Katrina and the devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. effects it had on its data center, Tidewater Marine, provider of maritime support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services to the world's offshore oil-drilling operations, initiated a comprehensive business continuity plan to prepare for future natural or data disasters. John Chaffe, director of IT at Tidewater Marine, employed the flexibility of Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity with the Compellent SAN at Tidewater's New Orleans headquarters and its disaster recovery site in Dallas to protect critical financial and operational data. The Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. modernized its IT infrastructure, consolidating 30 stand-alone distance-learning apps onto three VMware servers and shifting its one-to-one direct-attached storage environment to a virtualized Compellent SAN architecture. To be considered for the InfoWorld 100 award, nominated projects must use multiple technologies in innovative ways to serve well-defined business goals. "Breathing new life into outdated operations, advancing business goals with inventive use of technology -- this year's winners demonstrate, once again, that innovative, business-minded IT is the lifeblood of successful organizations," said Jason Snyder, senior editor for InfoWorld. Winners of the InfoWorld 100 were formally announced November 17 at InfoWorld.com. For more information about the InfoWorld 100, please visit: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/47FE-infoworld-100-list_11.html. 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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