Utilizing Compellent's innovative architecture, Storage Center delivers unlimited opportunities to more efficiently manage your data. Storage Center combines a suite of powerful software applications and a modular hardware platform to deliver an integrated solution that overcomes the limitations of traditional storage systems. The recently released Compellent Storage Center 4.0 includes new software innovations that extend the benefits of Automated Tiered Storage and Thin Provisioning.
Storage Center's scalable SAN hardware platform features unprecedented flexibility and unlimited growth - all without a forklift upgrade. The powerful software applications increase utilization, automate tiered storage within every drive, optimize data placement, simplify replication and speed data and disaster recovery.
Storage Center's core technology provides essential storage features that have been traditionally offered as add-on modules by storage vendors, including virtualization, sophisticated cache, Thin Import, Application Optimizer, support for heterogeneous operating systems and boot from SAN. The entire storage area networking solution is managed with a single interface; streamlining administration.
| The Compellent Advantage | ||
| Modular Hardware Platform | Powerful Software Applications | Intuitive, Unified Interface |
| Standards-based | Innovative software architecture manages data inside the volume | Centralized, point-and-click wizard-based set up and management comprehensive Phonehome capabilities |
| Modular, highly available hardware architecture | Suite of powerful software applications | Transform data from legacy systems to Thin Provisioned volumes |
| Add capacity, connectivity and bandwidth incrementally to match demand without a forklift upgrade | Provision storage from a single virtualized pool | Automatic notification when preset capacity thresholds are reached |
| Mix and match any number of drives and enclosures | Optimize utilization with advanced thin provisioning capabilities, speed local and remote replication and automate tiered storage within every drive | Advanced storage consumption and chargeback reporting |
| Fully backwards compatible hardware | Improve performance without adding drives | Optimize performance for specific applications, reclaim unused file space |

