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Up to 95% percent of all Compellent™ systems
ever sold are still in active use.
Dell Compellent wins top honors InformationWeek names Dell Compellent Storage Center industry’s best. IT Pros cite full feature set and outstanding overall performance. Learn More >

Self optimized, intelligent storage for a dynamic data center

Built on the Fluid Data architecture, Dell Compellent powers the data center with efficient, flexible and reliable enterprise-class storage designed to keep your data as dynamic as your business. With a flexible SAN and NAS architecture, Compellent scales and adapts easily to your business needs, boosts application performance, optimizes both block and file data management and lowers TCO.

  • Efficiency — Compellent drives down the cost of the data center with a range of technologies that automatically seeks your best interest, eliminating excess capacity, consolidating data silos and saving time on storage administration. Learn More >
  • Flexibility — Compellent adapts without artificial limits, restrictions or complexities, easily scaling up and out across block and file without disruption or costly rip and replace migrations. Learn More >
  • Reliability — Compellent provides fully-integrated data protection that reduces both RPO and RTO. Native IP-based replication and thin snapshots enable you to deploy a complete DR solution at a fraction of the cost.
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  • Compellent Partners

    Dell collaborates with numerous independent software vendors (ISVs) who can help you maximize your investment and meet your storage requirements by leveraging Compellent's unique functionality.

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  • Data Protection Solutions AvePoint DocAve
    CommVault Simpana
    Symantec
  • Virtual Environment Solutions VMware vSphere and Compellent
    VMware View
    Citrix XenServer and Compellent
    Citrix XenDesktop and Compellent
    Microsoft WS 2008 Hyper-V
  • WAN acceleration Solutions Exchange
    SQL
    Oracle
 

Featured Case Study: MPO International

MPO International

For us, flexibility was central. Before we spoke to 2M-Equation, we thought all storage arrays were equal. Dell Compellent technology is based on intelligence and capability. Beyond just managing data volumes, it’s also a system uniquely designed for dynamic data performance and growth.

—Sebastien Chateau-Dutier, Systems and Networks Manager, MPO France
 

Dell Compellent Storage Center Compellent Persistent Hardware Architecture

Intelligent and optimized, the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN is an all-in-one storage array that allows you to actively manage data using built-in intelligence and automation features.

Dell Compellent NAS Compellent NAS

The FS8600 adds scale-out NAS to the Compellent storage environment. The Fluid File System avoids the architectural limitations of traditional NAS, enabling non-disruptive capacity and performance scalability.

Dell Compellent Storage CenterCompellent Software

Compellent's sophisticated storage management software actively, intelligently manages the thin provisioning, placement and protection of enterprise data.

Dell Compellent Solutions

Data Center Virtualization

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.

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Storage Efficiency

Compellent Storage Center can reduce the number of drives required by your infrastucture by fully optimizing disk utilization with storage virtualization, thin provisioning, automated tiered storage and space-efficient snapshots.

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Disaster Recovery

Compellent Storage Center enables enterprises of all sizes to implement a robust, cost-effective disaster recovery plan using space-efficient snapshots with unlimited recovery points to maximize data protection and remote replication.

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Energy Efficiency

Compellent Storage Center optimizes disk drive utilization to reduce storage system energy consumption, minimize the data center footprint and provide oveall better data storage management.

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Cost-Saving Storage

Compellent's unique block-level architecture, storage virtualization, sophisticated software and modular hardware helps to significantly lower the cost of enterprise data storage management.

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Enterprise Automation

Compellent's PowerShell-based command set allows data storage administrators to automate common, repetitive tasks in Windows environments using more than 60 cmdlets.

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Unified Storage

The Compellent Storage Center with NAS data storage management solutions combine the convenience of file-level access with the efficiencies of a dynamic block-level architecture.

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