Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Arca: CML) announced that two of its
financial services customers, Ares Management and Credit Union of
Colorado, have significantly reduced the physical and carbon footprint
of their data centers, lowering the overall cost of ownership of their
technology infrastructure. The efficient Compellent SAN has enabled both
companies to measurably decrease hardware expenditures and the
associated energy consumption.
“Like so many others, organizations in the
financial services industry are facing explosive data growth, further
compounded by federal regulations, and client demand for quick and
secure access to financial data,” explained
Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing, Compellent. “Companies
like Ares Management and Credit Union of Colorado are using storage
innovation to more-effectively virtualize the data center and reduce
energy costs to better manage their businesses and compete with much
larger enterprises.”
Ares Management Reduces Hardware, Saves up to $70,000 in Storage Costs
Los Angeles-based Ares Management, a global investment firm specializing
in private equity and leveraged finance markets, currently manages
approximately $16 billion in assets. To meet government regulations,
employees need secure transactions as well as fast access to data housed
at offices around the world. Ares implemented the Compellent SAN to
build the foundation for its virtualization efforts, resulting in
reduced storage and server requirements and a rapid-responding, secure
gateway to company and client data.
“In our industry, time is literally money, and
critical data needs to be accessible at all times.”
said Ping Ooi, associate vice president of technology, Ares Management. “The
Compellent SAN is a core component of our virtualization strategy and let’s
us keep only the most frequently accessed data on high-performance
storage, so we can buy more low-energy, high-capacity drives for data we
don't. As a result, we’ve lowered storage
costs by roughly $70,000, eliminated 10 servers, and reduced energy
consumption by 25 percent.”
Credit Union of Colorado Reclaims Disk Space on Way to Greener Data
Center
Credit Union of Colorado, run by a board of its members in Denver,
Colo., is dedicated to providing green banking services by incorporating
innovative and ecologically responsible technology. After reviewing its
legacy data center performance and footprint, Credit Union of Colorado
needed to implement a new storage infrastructure to improve business
continuity and provide redundant data protection, while reducing
environmental impacts. The organization chose Compellent not only for
its extensive support for server and storage virtualization, but also
because the solution would support the company-wide green initiative.
“Wasted storage capacity drew a lot of energy
and threatened our efforts to go green,” said
Tom Gonzales, senior network administrator, Credit Union of Colorado. “Compellent’s
advanced storage virtualization eliminated allocated but unused storage,
helping reduce our physical data center footprint by 50 percent.”
Using Compellent’s storage resource
management tool, Enterprise Manager, both firms accurately and quickly
track the return on their storage investment, manage remote replication
and create storage usage reports for budgeting purposes. In addition,
Free Space Recovery, available with Enterprise Manager, enables deleted
file space in a Windows environment to be reused. For example, the
Credit Union of Colorado estimates using Free Space Recovery alone has
helped it reclaim 10 to 20 percent of previously unused disk space.
About Compellent
Compellent is a leading provider of enterprise-class network storage
solutions that are highly scalable, feature-rich and designed to be easy
to use and cost effective. Compellent Technologies’
principal offices are located in Eden Prairie, Minn. For more
information, please visit: http://www.compellent.com.
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