Compellent automates solid state storage tiering

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Compellent has today announced it will be the first company to offer a solid state storage solution with automated block level tiering.

It will integrate STEC ZeusIOPS enterprise solid state drives (SSDs) into its storage area network (SAN). By using the Compellent software, customers will be able to deploy only two SSDs in a “tier 0” configuration, automatically migrating inactive data to less expensive drives.

This in turn will maximise SSD utilisation and increase efficiency whilst reducing the costs of using SSD’s, renowned for their expense.

Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing for Compellent, said: “Adding SSD is simple for customers because in our virtualised SAN it’s just like any other drive. Unlike other implementations, we don’t lock customers into specific models or require them to buy a lot of drives to make SSD work.”

Compellent said that its automated tiered storage, called Data Progression, not only reduces the number of SSD’s required but does so with the “highest levels of performance for mission-critical applications”. Its hardware architecture also allows the customer to plug in the SSD’s to their current fibre channel enclosures without requiring a “rip and replace upgrade” or any downtime.

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