Allocation & Utilization

Compellent Enables Organizations to Purchase Less Storage.

Compellent is changing how storage is allocated and utilized. With Compellent, storage allocation and utilization are separated, allowing organizations to buy less storage upfront and better utilize what they buy.

The Problem:
With today's storage solutions, disk space allocation and utilization are tied together, resulting in:

• Significant upfront purchases to satisfy operating system and database allocation setup requirements
• Administrators speculating where to allocate and dedicate resources upfront
• Constant monitoring to ensure applications do not run out of capacity
• Majority of disk space unused and only available to specific applications
• System downtime and administrative overtime to reallocate resources

Our Solution:
Compellent separates storage allocation and utilization, allowing administrators to allocate any size volume upfront without having the physical disk space on hand.

Physical disk space is available to all applications and only consumed when data is written, allowing organizations to purchase less storage upfront better utilize what they buy.

• Physical disk space is virtualized in a common pool and available to all applications
• Allocate capacity to any volume without requiring physical disk space
• Assign physical disk space only when data is written
• Virtualized capacity available to any application
• Trending and automated alerts when available storage reaches user defined thresholds

Compellent Benefits:
Compellent offers benefits to your IT department and to your bottom line.

The Compellent Advantage:
Compellent's unrestricted growth path offers features others can't match.