Compellent bundles VMware disaster recovery s/w

EDEN PRAIRIE, MN, USA: Automated storage provider Compellent Technologies announced  an expansion of its partnership with virtualization vendor VMware.

Accordingly, Compellent Storage Center systems will be bundled with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

Also Read: Now get one-touch access to corporate data

Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of alliances and business development, Compellent, said: "As businesses turn to virtualized environments and the cloud for IT services, Compellent and VMware are helping these organizations recover from data loss in minutes with less hardware and software to buy and operate."

The company claims that the new disaster recovery solution enables organizations to create a "disaster ready" cloud environment by automating the process of moving, protecting and recovering their data from virtually any disaster with minimal cost and effort.

A typical Storage Center 5.4 configuration with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager's price starts at approximately $83,000 and includes:

Clustered Series 40 controllers.

Fluid Data software licenses including Enterprise Manager multi-site

Mmanagement software, Data Progression automated tiering, data capacity, thin provisioning, data instant replay snapshots, and remote instant replay replication.

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 25 VM pack.

Approximately 6 TB of tiered 2.5" 6Gb/s SAS storage.

Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware, said: "Our enhanced relationship enables Compellent to offer simplified disaster recovery by bundling VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with Compellent products. The new solution offers automation and comprehensive management to help customers deliver IT-as-a-service."