Compellent’s Thin Replication solution aims to make multi-site replication easier and cheaper

Compellent Technologies, a provider of modular enterprise storage solutions, has announced the launch of Storage Center 3.5 with Thin Replication. Compellent says that Thin Replication lowers capacity, bandwidth and management costs to ‘deliver multi-site replication without the traditional cost or complexity’.

“Disaster recovery shouldn’t have to be a harsh set of tradeoffs,” said Brad O’Neill, senior analyst for The Taneja Group. “One of the largest ongoing expenditures for any disaster recovery solution is dedicated bandwidth. Compellent’s Thin Replication addresses this pain point and many others with innovation that differentiates them from other storage vendors.”

Thin Replication extends the replication capabilities of Compellent’s storage area network (SAN) with new features that ‘cut bandwidth and management requirements by up to 50 percent over traditional products’.

Thin Replication is based on five technological solutions:

• Bandwidth Simulation: makes the initial bandwidth purchase more accurate, by estimating requirements upfront based on real data.
• Bandwidth Shaping: transfer rates are customized, based on link speed, time of day and replication priority.
• Multi-Site Setup and Management: wizard-based setup and administration aids roll-out across multiple sites.
• Instant Verification and Recovery: users can confirm replication success with a few mouse clicks and can perform tests with no impact on operations.
• Bandwidth Optimization: the system transfers only changed blocks of data, and uses de-duplication to ensure the same block of data is not sent twice.

Thin Replication is delivered via two software applications, Remote Instant Replay and Enterprise Manager. Remote Instant Replay provides continuous and unlimited snapshots (Replays) to deliver state-of-the-art asynchronous or synchronous replication capabilities.

www.compellent.com

•Date: 19th October 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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