Compellent launches Storage Center 5.4 SAN

LONDON, UK: Compellent Technologies announced the latest release of its storage area network technology, Storage Center 5.4 SAN.

The new SAN is built on its fluid data architecture to dynamically scale storage resources and provide continuous access to data while laying the foundation for a grid of Compellent arrays operating as one.

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The Storage Center 5.4 features new storage hardware, software and also integrates with server virtualisation technologies.

It features Live Volume, which acts as a storage hypervisor, actively presenting storage to two Compellent arrays at the same time, allowing organisations to shift volumes between systems to provide continuous data availability. This solves multiple data mobility issues facing IT today, including moving storage for application changes, maintenance, planned outages, load balancing and disaster avoidance.

The company claims that when virtual machines are moved using technologies such as VMware vMotion or Microsoft Live Migration, Live Volume automatically moves the associated storage volume. Volume works with multiple hypervisors, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.

The new SAN also supports fibre channel over Ethernet (FCOE), 10Gb iSCSI, including the Cisco converged network architecture and Nexus multi-protocol network switches.

Phil Soran, president and CEO, Compellent, said: "As the industry continues its shift to cloud computing and virtualisation, enterprises require a storage platform that can readily adapt to changes in their businesses by scaling with their growth while protecting their data and optimising their major financial investments made today. This launch is the first in a series of product innovations we believe will deliver exactly the scale-up and scale-out companies require as they grow and change."