Compellent Technologies, has released Storage Center 5, with new added features such as portable volume replication, SAS storage, automated tiered storage with RAID 6 protection and virtual ports I/O technology.
The company claims that the Storage Center 5 reduces the time, cost and complexity of replicating data for disaster recovery purposes; and scale from as few as six SAS drives up to 384 SAS drives with a mix of capacities and speed within the same enclosures, supporting FC or iSCSI front-end server connectivity.
The Storage Center 5 first stores written data on fast storage configured with RAID 10 and then dynamically migrates the least active portions to RAID 6 for high availability and protection, without requiring manual intervention or services, the company said.
In addition, Storage Center 5 features Server Mapping provisioning that automates the deployment of virtual servers and clusters; and Consistency Groups for data recovery of enterprise applications such as databases. It also allows end-users to mix different storage tiers from SAS to SSD in a single, virtualised pool of storage as the core of a fluid data environment.
The entry-level configuration starts at £13,750 and a configuration with automated tiered storage and replication is available for £24,450.
