Compellent SAN Certified and Supported with VMware Infrastructure 3.Compellent Added to VMware SAN Compatibility Guide; Live Demonstration of Powerful Joint 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. Solution Planned for VMworld 2006 MINNEAPOLIS -- Compellent Technologies, a provider of affordable and modular enterprise storage solutions, today announced it has been added to the SAN Compatibility Guide for VMware Infrastructure 3. Compellent's Storage Center[TM] SAN has passed compatibility testing Compatibility testing, part of software non-functional tests, is testing conducted on the application to evaluate the application's compatibility with the computing environment. requirements to become a part of VMware's list of supported storage platforms and will showcase its advanced virtualization solution at VMworld 2006 Nov. 7-9. "Compellent's certification brings customers the best of both worldsaVMware, the market leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, combined with a technology leader in 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. ," said Tony Asaro, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "We believe that integrated virtualization at the server and storage layers will be requisite in the foreseeable future, since it breaks the limitations of discrete physical assets and simplifies otherwise complex and cumbersome systems." "Together, Compellent and VMware create a powerful end-to-end virtualization solution that promises to significantly simplify server and storage management, improve utilization and drive costs out of datacenters of all sizes," said Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing for Compellent. "Compellent's unique features, including 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. and Thin Replication, help customers ensure continuous availability for their virtualized environments." Compellent's advanced approach to virtualization creates an unlimited number of virtual volumes to easily accommodate each of the large number of applications that can run on VMware Infrastructure. Compellent's modular architecture allows each VMware virtual machine to use the optimal server interface, drive technology and speed, RAID configuration and snapshot schedule. The addition of Compellent to VMware's SAN Compatibility Guide ensures a high level of joint support for Compellent customers. "Using Compellent and VMware Infrastructure in unison has helped us create a high performance, flexible IT infrastructure to easily respond to changing server and storage demands," said Jeff Olson Jeff Olson was the cowboy in the musical group Village People. Olson was born in New York City, but currently lives in Connecticut. He joined the Village People in 1980 when Randy Jones left, and a friend informed him that a pop-group was looking for a singer/dancer. , vice president, information technology for Kopp Investment Advisors Investment Advisor 1. A person making investment recommendations in return for a flat fee or percentage of assets managed, known as a commission. 2. For mutual fund companies, it is the individual who has the day-to-day responsibility of investing and monitoring the cash and , an independent money management firm. "With this virtual data center, we've been able to consolidate server and storage resources, cut infrastructure costs by 40 percent and easily protect our applications to meet business continuity requirements." "Compellent's Storage Center allows customers to add valuable functionality to their VMware Infrastructure environment, enhancing the benefits of server virtualization (1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions within a single server. The "virtual machine" method can run different operating systems simultaneously, whereas the "OS virtualization" method runs applications for only one operating system (see virtual machine and OS ," said Parag Patel, senior director of storage ecosystem alliances at VMware. "Compellent's certification ensures that customers can benefit from joint support for complementary technologies that significantly lower customers' operating and capital expenditures." Compellent will be demonstrating the joint virtualization solution at booth # 640 at VMworld, Nov. 7-9, showcasing Thin Replication technology. Thin Replication's unlimited frequency and optimized bandwidth, combined with VMware's multiple server instances, enable customers to create the ultimate test environment, making changes more often and testing more possibilities. Using Thin Replication, customers can seamlessly replicate VMware ESX Server VMware ESX Server is an enterprise-level virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc., a division of EMC Corporation. ESX Server is a component of VMware's larger offering, Virtual Infrastructure, which adds management and reliability services to the core server product. host instances to a remote site to provide continuous data protection and robust recovery for their virtualized environment without the traditional cost or complexity. 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 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 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 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 cres·cen·do n. pl. cres·cen·dos or cres·cen·di 1. Abbr. cr. Music a. A gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound in a passage. b. Ventures, El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America. Ventures and The Nomura Group The Nomura Group (野村グループ Nomura Gurūpu . 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