Compellent and ONStor Deliver Industry's First Integrated SAN and NAS Solution With Automated Tiered Storage.MINNEAPOLIS & CAMPBELL, Calif. -- Delivers 80 percent reduction in storage expenditures by automatically migrating inactive data to a lower-cost tier of storage Compellent Technologies, a provider of affordable and modular enterprise storage solutions, and ONStor, the leader in Enterprise NAS Gateways, today introduced the industry's first integrated SAN and NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular solution with 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. capabilities. Through a partnership with ONStor, Compellent will deliver and support the market's first integrated SAN and NAS product which dramatically reduces storage expenditures by transparently migrating data between storage tiers. The Compellent/ONStor partnership unites the benefits of both block and file storage to deliver unlimited SAN capacity and NAS performance via a highly scalable architecture that easily expands with the addition of storage controllers, disk enclosures and NAS gateways. Compellent is the single point of contact and contract for this end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. , which ensures a unified experience for the customer. "Combining Compellent and ONStor allows us to deliver shared data access to all users and platforms, and easily scale as our storage needs grow," said Nick Poolos, systems development engineer at Fisher College Fisher College - Formerly known as Fisher Junior College, also known as The Fish or The Fishbowl, is a two-year college located in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1903 as a girls-only business school. of Business, The Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. . "Now, whether it is block or file access, we can scale while containing costs and maintaining performance." Compellent's integration of ONStor's NAS Gateway to its storage area network (SAN) delivers scalable storage with transparent, data migration across multiple tiers--allowing users to achieve maximum storage ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). by ensuring that data is stored on the most cost-effective storage tier based on customer usage patterns and policies. This automated tiered storage capability eliminates the need for time-consuming data classification associated with typical Information Lifecycle Management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. (ILM) solutions because all data movement is based on frequency of access. "Midmarket businesses require enterprise-class file and block services at an affordable price," said Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing for Compellent. "Compellent's modular scalability and automated tiered storage capabilities combined with ONStor's Bobcat bobcat: see lynx. bobcat Bobtailed, long-legged North American cat (Lynx rufus) found in forests and deserts from southern Canada to southern Mexico. It is a close relative of the lynx and caracal. NAS Gateway provides the ideal combination of performance and features to reduce IT expenditures." ONStor's Bobcat Series of easy-to-deploy and simple-to-manage NAS Gateways consolidate enterprise-wide file services for Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Linux clients and servers onto Fibre Channel attached, multi-vendor disk arrays. ONStor delivers the industry's highest performance open NAS gateways with three times the price/performance of NetApp products and enterprise-class scalability to 40 petabytes of capacity and more than 10,000 users. "Enterprise customers have traditionally been forced to purchase and manage disparate pools of storage to utilize SAN and NAS technologies, and to engage multiple vendors for technical support," said Jon Toor, vice president of marketing at ONStor. "The Compellent/ONStor partnership provides an elegant solution to the problem that directly addresses the customer's issue of lowering the cost and complexity of their storage environment." The joint Compellent/ONStor solution is available immediately through Compellent's international network of business partners. Pricing for an entry-level solution starts at $71,000 and includes Storage Center with 2 terabytes of storage and a Bobcat NAS Gateway. 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 $38 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 and 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. For more information, visit www.compellent.com. About ONStor ONStor is the leader in enterprise-class NAS Gateways that consolidate file services on multi-vendor storage. ONStor storage solutions dramatically reduce management costs by providing customers with the most easily scaled storage environment, and reduce capital costs by delivering the freedom and flexibility of the industry's most interoperable platform. ONStor products and technology are offered by leading system integrators and resellers worldwide. All products are backed by a host of support offerings and by ONStor's uncompromising commitment to customer service. More information about ONStor can be found at www.ONStor.com or by calling toll-free 877-2ON-STOR (877-266-7867). |
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