COMPANY AND PRODUCT OVERVIEW Russ Taddiken Director of Principal Storage Architecture

COMPANY AND PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Russ TaddikenDirector of Principal Storage Architecture

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WHERE’S YOUR PAIN? How long can you manage data the same way?

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FLUID DATA ARCHITECTURE Revolutionary approach to data management

Simplify management

Ideal for virtual servers

Independence from drive type, interface type and RAID

“No waste” when storing data

Buy fewer disk drives

Save on energy and floor space

Sophisticated data movement engine

Set policies and let the system run

Optimized data placement

Block-level intelligence

Manages data inside the volume

Tracks frequency of access

Enables unique feature/benefits

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STORAGE CENTER OVERVIEW Enterprise storage with the

future built in

Storage Center Hardware Supports file and block (FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS)

Scale up and out from TBs to PBs

Drives supported: FC, SATA, SAS, Solid State

Clustered controllers – no single point of failure

Non-disruptive architecture with the future built in

Storage Center Software Advanced Thin Provisioning

Automated Tiered Storage

Intelligent Storage Automation

True Storage Virtualization

Continuous Snapshots

Thin Replication

DiskEnclosure

Storage ControllerNAS

Connectivity

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SINGLE PLATFORM SCALABILITY Industry’s only persistent hardware platform

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BREAKTHROUGH EFFICIENCY The only storage company that wants you to buy fewer drives

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TRUE STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

Server and Storage Virtualization

Smartest storage for virtual servers

Compellent Advantage

Buy less hardware Reduce space, energy More efficient use of assets Much less management time

Compellent Virtualization Benefits

High performance without tuning Simplified capacity planning Change RAID levels anytime Auto re-striping when expanding

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AUTOMATED TIERED STORAGE

Patented Fluid Data Architecture Measures actual business

usage of data blocks

Automatically moves inactive data to lower-cost disk

Buy fewer and less expensive drives

DID YOU KNOW?

81% of our

upgrade orders

are for affordable,

high-capacity

drives.

Stores most frequently accessed data on the outer edge of the drive

Maximizes utilization and performance of all drives

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CONTINUOUS DATA AVAILABILITY

Recover instantly, replicate in minutes

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THIN REPLICATION

Thin Replication Benefits

Right-size recovery costs

DID YOU KNOW?

68% of Compellent

customers replicate

their data to

another site.

San Diego

London

Las Vegas

Replication in 6 clicks

One button, automated restore

DR Testing – without downtime

Significant reduction in cost of bandwidth and management

No space pre-allocation

Only replicate changed blocks of data

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INTELLIGENT STORAGE AUTOMATIONSophisticated is now automated and simple

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COMPELLENT LIVE VOLUME Non-Disruptive Volume Migration

On-Demand Load Balancing

Planned Zero Downtime Maintenance

Planned Disaster Avoidance

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UNIFIED STORAGE Seamlessly support block and file based storage

Compellent branded and supported Fully integrated with Storage Center Diskless operations De-duplication

Unified SAN and NAS Storage

Scalable block and file storage Heterogeneous OS file sharing Eliminate stranded capacity Competitively priced

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REAL-TIME RESPONSE

Support Services• Copilot engineers available

24x7x365 @ headquarters

• Immediate response – No “2-hour call-back” policy

H/W and S/W maintenance• Perpetual software licensing

Phone Home monitoring• Predictive and proactive

Professional services High customer satisfaction• 98% satisfaction rating• 100% would buy again

World-class service

Copilot Support and Services

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OUR CUSTOMERS ARE PASSIONATE

Independent survey awards highest marks in the industry

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ABOUT COMPELLENT The Future is Fluid

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THE FUTURE IS FLUID.

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