Compellent and Virtual Iron Target Mid-Market with Easy-to-Use, Cost-Effective Virtual Infrastructure Management Capabilities.Companies Deliver Enterprise-Class Server 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. Solutions for Flexible Disaster Recovery, Utilization EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn. & LOWELL, Mass. -- Compellent (www.compellent.com) and Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com) today announced they are teaming to deliver enterprise-class server and storage virtualization capabilities to the mainstream market and enable more users to take advantage of the significant benefits of virtual infrastructure management. The companies will collaborate on joint marketing, sales and product development aimed at small and medium-sized organizations, such as the Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. and PGA TOUR The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the USA's main professional golf tours. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. Its name is officially rendered in all caps as “PGA TOUR". Superstores This is a list of superstores by country. Multi-national
By deploying Compellent virtualized storage with Virtual Iron 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 technology, users gain a simple, flexible and cost-effective virtualized infrastructure that easily adapts to changing business requirements. The combined capabilities help organizations easily apply 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. for improvements in resource utilization, simplified patch management The installation of patches from a software vendor onto an organization's computers. Patching thousands of PCs and servers is a major issue. A patch should be applied to test machines first before deployment, and the testing environments must represent all the users' PCs with their unique and back-up, and more cost-effective disaster recovery and capacity management. The South Carolina Office of the Attorney General recently implemented Virtual Iron Infrastructure and Compellent's SAN for data consolidation and recovery. The ease of use of the solution is allowing the IT department to focus resources on an electronic document archive system that will house relevant legal opinions dating to 1856--without adding a single staff member. "Since we maintain vast amounts of digitized briefs, correspondence, evidence, and other case documents, we needed fast access and quick data recovery to effectively prosecute crime at all judicial levels in South Carolina," said Sandee Sprang, director of information technology of the Office of the Attorney General. "Combining Virtual Iron and Compellent server and storage virtualization features has helped us deliver better utilization, comprehensive archiving and faster service for the attorneys, administration and staff serving our constituents." "After evaluating the features, functionality and pricing of server and storage virtualization products from other vendors, Virtual Iron and Compellent were easy choices," said Gentry Ganote, 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. of PGA TOUR Superstores. "With Virtual Iron and Compellent, we can now easily manage our servers and storage and benefit from a level of cost savings, reliability and ease of deployment previously not available from our 'physical' server environment. The performance of the Virtual Iron virtual machines is outstanding and we've seamlessly integrated our blade servers A server architecture that houses multiple server modules ("blades") in a single chassis. It is widely used in datacenters to save space and improve system management. Either self-standing or rack mounted, the chassis provides the power supply, and each blade has its own CPU, memory and and the Compellent SAN." Virtual Iron provides an enterprise-class virtualization and virtual infrastructure management platform for one-fifth the cost of comparable alternatives. Compellent provides a modular, virtualized storage system that enables a virtual infrastructure environment to enhance storage utilization, data protection, disaster recovery and virtualized server availability. Together, Virtual Iron and Compellent can provide organizations the ability to consolidate hardware to help reduce capital expenses and become more agile at the same time by: * automating service level agreement management - allowing workloads to receive the capacity they need when needed, without administrative intervention administrative intervention Diagnostic medicine Any intervention on the part of an administrative body–eg in a hospital or other health care facility, which is intended to influence a physician's pattern of practice–eg, to ↓ overordering of ; * simplifying business continuity - allowing workloads and data to be replicated remotely without complex infrastructure; * speeding patch management - allowing administrators to test patches on live systems and roll back if necessary. Compellent's storage virtualization can easily accommodate the large number of applications that can run on Virtual Iron Infrastructure. Advanced SAN features such as Compellent 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 further lower storage costs and enable continuous data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. for virtualized environments "Compellent and Virtual Iron create a powerful end-to-end virtualization solution that promises to simplify server and storage management, improve utilization and drive costs out of data centers," said Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing for Compellent. "Compellent continues to extend the benefits of storage throughout the enterprise by significantly reducing costs and administrative overhead, enabling customers to focus on initiatives such as server consolidation through Virtual Iron virtualization technology See VT. See also virtualization. ." "Together, Virtual Iron and Compellent deliver affordable, production-ready virtualization and management solutions to the mainstream market," said Mike Grandinetti, chief marketing officer at Virtual Iron Software. "Compellent's flexible, easy-to-deploy storage solutions combined with Virtual Iron's advanced virtual infrastructure management and workload migration capabilities, enable users of all sizes to leverage the full power and 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). of server virtualization." About Compellent 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. About Virtual Iron Software, Inc. Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class software for server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management at one-fifth the cost of comparable alternatives. Its solutions enable companies to dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of managing and operating their data center. Virtual Iron delivers advanced virtualization capabilities that exploit industry standards, open source economics and built-in hardware-assisted acceleration. It is available for free download at http://www.virtualiron.com/free. Organizations use Virtual Iron for server consolidation, rapid provisioning, business continuity, capacity management and virtual desktop infrastructure to deliver significant improvements in utilization, manageability and agility. The company is privately held and based in Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 105,167. It is the fourth largest city in the state. It and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County. . For more information, visit http://www.virtualiron.com or email info@virtualiron.com. |
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