Compellent and SSDs

Compellent presents a fresh view of its Storage Center array and its software offerings Storage Alert NetworkWorld.com | Data Center Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Change Your Storage Economics The Sun Unified Storage Systems. Storage made simple, just when you need it most. Get a 60-day free trial then buy at 20% off. Try It Now. Spotlight Story Compellent and SSDs By Deni Connor I spent last week at Compellent's C-Dive Partner and Customer Conference in Minneapolis. While Compellent didn't announce any new products or technologies, the company presented a fresh view of not only its Storage Center array, but of its software offerings such as Data Progression, which provides for the automatic migration of data between tiers. Read full story Deni Connor is principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW and host of both the Masters of Storage and Masters of Servers Solution Centers. Related News: Compellent rolls out disk-drive saving array Compellent unveiled a new storage array last week that it claims can reduce the number of disk drives a user requires by as much as 80%. The Compellent Storage Center 4.0 includes new software that allows tiering and ... Solid-state flash products hit market en masse Solid-state drives based on flash memory are turning up in products from seemingly every hardware vendor these days, signaling that the technology may be inching closer to mass adoption. Compellent StorageCenter What stood out most about the StorageCenter in our testing was its manageability. Compellent has the best management console of any of the systems we tested, providing more control, configuration visualization, and ... NetApp, Compellent, HP, Dell top the field in 12-product test A terabyte isn't what it used to be. Disks are slower than you think. And a Gigabit Ethernet is plenty of bandwidth for many storage applications. May Giveaways Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet are collectively giving away books on Google Apps Deciphered, the CCNA Security exam, an awesome SQL Server 2005/2008 training video and the grand prize, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500. Deadline for entries May 31. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. Evolution of Ethernet From 3Mbps over shared coax to 40/100Gbps over fiber…and beyond. Apple iPhoneys: The 4G edition iPhone enthusiasts from around the Web offer their visions for the next-gen iPhone. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Change Your Storage Economics The Sun Unified Storage Systems. Storage made simple, just when you need it most. Get a 60-day free trial then buy at 20% off. Try It Now. Everybody says "Do more with less!" But no one tells you how. We will and it costs nothing to find out at IT Roadmap Conference and Expo. Coming to 10 cities in 09. Register now, attend free EMA: Refining privilege access security. Close the security gaps in high-privilege access control and authentication by selecting the right security products for the job. This whitepaper, "Resolving the Privilege Management Paradox," details how. EMA outlines how to find products that offer strong shared access management, better control and clear visibility and multifactor authentication. Click to download.   05/14/09 Today's most-read stories: Poster on Chinese forum leaks next-gen iPhone specs Too much experience could be hurting your IT job search Where the IT jobs are: 10 American cities Juniper ships 'cloud' switch Google ran out of bandwidth? PoE without the PoE switch Microsoft: Corporate Vista testers should switch to Win 7 RC Pirated Windows 7 software part of criminal botnet VidyoConferencing vs. videoconferencing Inside a data leak audit Network World on Twitter: Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news Everybody says "Do more with less!" But no one tells you how. We will and it costs nothing to find out at IT Roadmap Conference and Expo. Coming to 10 cities in 09. Register now, attend free Compare products, get advice, and check out tests and reviews from the experts at Network World. Over 70 categories. Visit now   This email was sent to networking.world@gmail.com Complimentary Subscriptions Available for newsletter subscribers. Receive 50 issues of Network World Magazines, in print or electronic format, free of charge, Apply here. Terms of Service/Privacy   Subscription Services Update your profile To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. Unsubscribe Network World, Inc., 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2009 www.networkworld.com