Enterprise Storage That Redefines the Data Center

Compellent Fluid Data is enterprise storage technology that always puts data in the right place, at the right time for the right cost. With Fluid Data storage, your enterprise or cloud will be efficient, agile and resilient—always, automatically and continually. Best of all, with Fluid Data, your system adapts dynamically at the speed of change, directly in line with your business needs.

What can Fluid Data storage do for you?

• Slash the time and cost of managing storage up to 80%, now and in the future
• Scale up and out on a single platform, adopting new technologies as they emerge
• Establish a grid of virtualized storage as the foundation of a cloud infrastructure
• Ensure business continuity with integrated snapshots, replication and data migration

Fluid Data Architecture

A Fluid Data architecture enables Compellent network storage to manage enterprise data at a more granular level. Details about each block are captured in action, providing unprecedented system intelligence. A powerful data management and movement engine uses this information to store, migrate and recover data efficiently and cost effectively.

With its Fluid Data architecture, Compellent breaks through the boundaries of traditional systems to deliver network storage solutions with the future built in. Business applications are implemented faster, information to make decisions is always available, new technologies are instantly deployed and data is continuously protected against downtime and disaster.

Only a Fluid Data Architecture Can Deliver

• Breakthrough efficiency—buy fewer drives and use more Tier 3 storage, saving on power and space
• Intelligent storage automation—simplify your IT infrastructure with zero touch management
• Single platform scalability—scale without limits on a persistent, technology-independent platform
• Continuous data protection—recover instantly and set up multi-site replication in minutes
• Real-time responsiveness—rely on storage that performs as promised from day one

Optimizing Scale and Availability for Enterprises and the Cloud

Storage Center 5.4 marks the most comprehensive product release in Compellent history. The new Compellent virtualized storage array allows enterprises to rapidly adapt to changing business requirements—with greater scale up from a next-generation hardware platform and enhanced scale out from a dynamic business continuity suite. Organizations can now leverage the latest industry standards, from 10 Gb iSCSI and FCoE frontend connectivity to 2.5" or 3.5" 6 Gb SAS drives and enclosures. A new Series 40 controller boosts performance by 25% for demanding applications. And Live Volume software delivers high availability and continuous access to data by enabling transparent volume migration
between two Compellent arrays.

The Storage Center 5.4 Advantage

• 6 Gb SAS drives provide twice the performance and use nearly half the power of 3 Gb SAS drives
• 2.5" SAS drives are two-thirds smaller than 3.5" drives, resulting in a significant performance boost with a smaller footprint
• 6 Gb SAS enclosures provide 24 bays to accommodate twice the number of spindles in the same amount of rackspace
• Series 40 controller features more memory, six PCI-e slots and a battery-less cache, and provides 25% higher I/O performance
• 10 Gb iSCSI and FCoE I/O cards and HBAs provide the latest industry-standard interconnect performance
• Live Volume acts as a storage hypervisor, actively mapping one storage volume to two Compellent arrays at the same time

Storage Virtualization Solutions

Compellent’s Storage Virtualization is the perfect complement to any leading virtual server platform. Aggregating physical disks into logical virtual volumes removes the limitations inherent to physical drives. The result is a dynamic pool of storage resources shared by virtual machines (VMs). Storage is presented to VMs simply as capacity, regardless of disk type, RAID level or server connectivity.

How to Amplify the Benefits of Server Virtualization with Compellent

• Create virtual volumes for hundreds of VMs without pre-allocating physical storage capacity upfront with Thin Provisioning
• Simplify storage provisioning for any number of VMs with Automatic LUN Masking
• Free up high-performance spindles for demanding virtual applications with Automated Tiered Storage
• Deploy VMs in minutes, test patches and roll out upgrades to multiple servers risk-free with Boot from SAN
• Recover any size VM volume in seconds with unlimited space-efficient Replays (continuous snapshots)
• Increase availability for VMs by cost-effectively protecting data between multiple sites with Thin Replication