Tag Archives: Compellent

One platform to rule them all – Compellent&EqualLogic&Exanet from Dell

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Ray

Dell and Compellent may be a great match because Compellent uses commodity hardware combined with specialized software to create their storage subsystem. If there’s any company out there that can take advantage of commodity hardware it’s probably Dell. (Of course … Continue reading →

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Deskchecking BC/DR plans

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Ray

Quite a lot of twitter traffic/tweetchat this Wednesday on DR/BC all documented on #sanchat sponsored by Compellent. In that discussion I mentioned a presentation I did a couple of years ago for StorageDecisions/Chicago on Successful Disaster Recovery Testing where I discussed … Continue reading →

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HDS Dynamic Provisioning for AMS

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Ray

HDS announced support today for their thin provisioning (called Dynamic Provisioning) feature to be available in their mid-range storage subsystem family the AMS. Expanding the subsystems that support Thin provisioning can only help the customer in the long run. It’s … Continue reading →

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