Sirius Data

Open, Agile Hardware

Compellent is built on a flexible, persistent platform that scales without limits. Unlike systems that require you to rip and replace technology as your business needs change, Compellent supports the continual adoption of new technologies as you grow. You can easily mix and match drive technologies and build a unified storage solution without ever worrying about a forklift upgrade.

Intelligent automated software

Compellent enables enterprises of all sizes to move beyond simply storing data to actively managing data. Powerful software with built-in intelligence and automation optimizes the provisioning, placement and protection of data throughout its lifecycle - to cut the time, cost and risk of enterprise storage.

Fluid data architecture

A patented Fluid Data architecture enables Compellent to actively manage data at a more SAS granular level. Detailed information about each block provides unprecedented system intelligence to dynamically store, recover and manage your data. With a Fluid Data architecture, the impact to your business is immediate. Business applications are implemented faster, information to make decisions is always available, new technologies are instantly deployed and data is continuously protected.

• Buy fewer drives and use more Tier 3 storage, saving on power and space
• Simplify your IT infrastructure with zero touch management
• Scale without limits on a persistent, technology-independent platform
• Recover instantly and set up multi-site replication in minutes
• Rely on storage that delivers as promised from day one

Advanced storage virtualisation

Compellent virtualizes storage at the disk level, accelerating data access by spreading read/ write operations across all drives so multiple requests are processed in parallel. You can create high performance, highly efficient virtual volumes in seconds without allocating drives to specific servers, without complicated capacity planning and without performance tuning. Remove the limitations of physical drives and dynamically change and scale your virtualized pool without disruption or downtime.

• Create a centralized pool of storage shared by all servers
• Write any size virtual volumes to the entire pool or any subset of it
• Present disk capacity regardless of tier, RAID level or server connectivity
• Speed data access by utilizing all available disk resources all the time
• Eliminate disk "e;hot spots"e;
• Use virtual ports to increase port capacity, disk bandwidth, I/O connectivity and port failover

Automated tiered storage

With unique patented technology, Compellent automatically classifies and migrates data to the optimum tier of storage based on actual usage. The most active blocks of data reside on high-performance SSD or Fibre Channel drives, while less active blocks of data automatically move to lower-cost, high-capacity SAS or SATA drives. The result is storage that is always in tune with application needs – and overall storage costs slashed by up to 80%.

• Eliminate manual data classification and migration
• Automatically migrate inactive blocks of data to lower cost disk and RAID levels
• Move most active data to the fastest, outer edges of each drive
• Maximize write performance and data availability for every application
• Add disk drives to any tier of storage on the fly