Well, the announcement has been made and it’s official, Dell and Compellent are in talks over a “merger” which basically means Dell acquiring Compellent for around $27.50 per share. The press release can be found here. Even as recently as a couple of weeks ago, [...]
Chris Mellor recently speculated on Compellent and the additional horsepower of their new storage product releases – series 40 controllers with Storage Center 5.4. Over dinner last night, we discussed how various features could be integrated into the current architecture. Many of them are surprisingly easy to achieve (or so we [...]
This is a series of posts reviewing the Compellent Storage Center SAN Array. Previous Posts:
Review: Compellent Storage Center – Part I
In this post we’ll discuss the logical configuration, connectivity and protocols available on the Compellent Storage Center array, including the way disks are grouped and LUNs are created from the underlying [...]
This is a series of posts reviewing the Compellent Storage Center Storage Array.
Compellent Inc, founded in 2002, produces the Storage Center product, a SAN storage array build around commodity hardware. In addition to providing advanced features found on newer storage arrays (such as thin provisioning), the Compellent device has one unique (for now) feature [...]
There’s no doubt that 2010 will prove to be another tough year in the storage industry. Customers are looking to continue on cost reduction and austerity programmes, squeezing assets as much as they can. Of all the storage vendors out there, which have got the the right vintage to succeed? Here’s my light-hearted look (in no [...]
Yesterday, EMC announced Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), their much hyped and much anticipated storage feature enabling the automated moving of data between tiers of storage on a policy basis. However the most notable missing feature in the EMC announcement was the lack of support for legacy DMX-3 [...]
So, here’s my rash statement from Twitter last night: “If FAST isn’t free, I don’t want it! All it’s doing is automating process I could script/do manually”. It’s a bold statement, I know, so is FAST really offering something better than what could be achieved today using EMC’s Symmetrix Optimizer?
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There’s been a lot of talk this week about Compellent and their support for solid state drives. See the press release here. So now we have two vendors offering SSD devices in their arrays, Compellent join the club with EMC. Which is best?
At a meeting I had last week, we [...]
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