Rivals.com Selects Compellent SAN to Support Explosive Subscriber and Content Growth.Leading Sports Web Site Can Now Expand Capacity in Two Minutes Instead of Two Hours; Lowers Storage Costs by 40 Percent MINNEAPOLIS -- Compellent Technologies, a provider of affordable and modular enterprise storage solutions, today announced Rivals.com, the online leader for in-depth information, analysis and "the scoop" in college sports and recruiting, has selected CompellenteIUs storage area network (SAN). CompellenteIUs Thin Provisioning Thin provisioning[1] is a mechanism that applies to large-scale centralized computer disk storage systems, SANs, and storage virtualization systems. Thin provisioning allows space to be easily allocated to servers, on a just-enough and just-in-time basis. and unlimited capacity expansion enable Rivals.com to support rapid content and subscriber growth. Rivals.com has more than 20 million page views each day and supports more than 170,000 active online subscribers. Over the next 8-10 months, Rivals.com expects its photo and video archive to double in size as user-generated content The production of content by the general public rather than by paid professionals and experts in the field. Mostly available on the Web via blogs and wikis, user-generated content refers to material such as the daily news, encyclopedias and other references, movie and product reviews as ramps up and video files continue to be added to the site. "With our Web traffic nearly doubling every year, Compellent allows us to easily respond to the increasing storage demands driven by our rapidly growing subscriber base and all the user-generated content," said Greg Gough, chief technology officer for Rivals.com. "CompellenteIUs Thin Provisioning capability has lowered our storage costs by over 40 percent and streamlined 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 management for our IT staff." CompellenteIUs Thin Provisioning feature enables Rivals.com to allocate storage for future growth without having the upfront physical capacity in the SAN. Thin Provisioning only consumes physical capacity when the data is actually written by the application, allowing Rivals.com to delay disk purchases and leverage storage disk drive price erosion to get more capacity at a lower cost. Thin Provisioning also eliminates the time-consuming capacity planning process that was required with its previous storage systems. IT administrators at Rivals.com now spend less time provisioning storage, expanding and assigning volumes and manually tracking volume utilization. The new ease-of-use has enabled Rivals.com to manage growing demand for storage capacity without adding additional administrators. Expanding storage capacity takes only a few minutes with Storage CentereIUs intuitive interface, rather than the two hours it used to take to create a new volume, and can be easily performed by any member of Rivals.com IT staff. 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 In database management, the ability to keep distributed databases synchronized by routinely copying the entire database or subsets of the database to other servers in the network. There are various replication methods. 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 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 $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 . For more information, visit www.compellent.com. |
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