Compellent Leads Storage Area Network Vendors in End-User Survey.Midsize Enterprise Customers Give Compellent the Best Ratings for Innovation, Customer Satisfaction Among SAN Vendors in TheInfoPro's Storage Study EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn. -- Data storage professionals said Compellent's strategic vision, innovation and product value and features are rated among the best established storage area network (SAN) vendors, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the recently released Wave 9 Midsize Enterprise Storage Report by TheInfoPro1, an independent research network for the IT industry. The study, which details storage technology adoption trends, management techniques and vendor performance data, showed Compellent's ratings exceeded the mean scores for all other SAN vendors on both the "Promise" and "Fulfillment" Indexes. Other SAN vendors rated within the most recent study included EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Sun. "This research captures the feedback from storage decision makers on the products they have already purchased--straight talk that can be quantified and compared between groups of similar vendors," said Robert Stevenson, TheInfoPro's managing director, Storage Research. The Promise Index measures customer ratings on each vendor's technical innovation, competitive positioning, strategic vision and reputation; the Fulfillment Index measures product value, quality, delivery as promised and technical support. Compellent's Promise Index score was 84 out of 100, while the mean for all vendors was 69. Compellent's Fulfillment Index score was 84 out of 100, while the mean for all vendors was 70. Increased Industry Recognition and Leadership Six months ago in the Wave 8 Study, IT pros talked about Compellent's strong promise. Now in Wave 9, the number of respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. using Compellent's technologies in the study more than doubled. "We've found that enterprise storage professionals are building out tiered storage A data storage system made up of two or more types of storage based on their access speed. For example, magnetic disk and tape or magnetic disk and optical disc are widely used in a tiered storage system. See HSM. , archiving and disaster recovery initiatives to manage their storage growth, capacity planning Determining the required future configuration of hardware and software for a network, datacenter or Web site. There are numerous capacity planning tools on the market used to monitor and analyze the performance of the current hardware and software. and reporting needs," continued TheInfoPro's Stevenson. "The study participants' citations of Compellent's strengths in these areas indicate a major reason why Compellent is growing and establishing leadership in the industry." Since its introduction in early 2004, Compellent's Storage Center SAN has attracted more than 600 customers and an international network of channel partners. Storage Center is widely recognized for powerful capabilities such as 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. for ILM, thin replication for disaster recovery and advanced Replay technology for space-efficient snapshots and archiving. About Storage Center Storage Center builds on its Dynamic Block Architecture to deliver a scalable, open-systems hardware platform that is designed to allow businesses to mix and match disk drives, controllers and enclosures; an integrated foundation of core storage capabilities providing functionality previously available only in high-end systems; a suite of software applications that can optimize utilization, automating replication 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 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. For more information, visit www.compellent.com. 1 TheInfoPro Storage Study - Midsize Enterprise End User Report: Wave 9, Spring 2007 |
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