Compellent Technologies has helped its Irish partner Origina, a pan-European technical services company located in Dublin, win "Green IT Initiative of the Year" at the ICT Excellence Awards. The prestigious award is for the implementation of a cost, power and space-saving storage solution at Ireland’s Health Service Executive’s (HSE) University College Hospital Galway.



One of Ireland’s major academic teaching hospitals, Galway’s HSE University College Hospital worked with Origina to pioneer a new virtualised storage framework which reduces power consumption and space usage. Based on Compellent’s energy-efficient storage area network (SAN) the solution is saving the hospital 90% on power and cooling costs.

"Over the last year we have launched a number of ‘Green Data’ storage solutions through our alliance with Compellent Technologies. We believe they have the most innovative SAN on the market. Based on an automated tiering that ultimately uses cheaper and larger SATA disks, the SAN still maintains the demanding storage performance levels of the hospital’s continually growing critical enterprise applications. The work with the hospital is the latest in a number of green initiatives brought to market by our Innovation & Development team. Winning this award for the third year in a row is testament to Origina’s value when it comes to architecting solutions that reduce cost, reduce risk and make IT environments more flexible, ” explained Rowan O'Donoghue, Director of Innovation & Development at Origina.

By providing the storage foundation for server virtualisation, the Compellent SAN lets customers consolidate servers and disks, ultimately reducing power and cooling costs. By further integrating technologies such as automated tiered storage, thin provisioning and space-efficient snapshots to reduce reliance on high-energy storage, Compellent customers gain the means to deploy a feature-rich, greener data centre.

Andy Hardy, managing director of international sales at Compellent, said: “Compellent’s advanced storage solutions are designed to significantly lower storage and infrastructure capital expenditures, which also provide vital green benefits in the current environment. Origina is an innovative company with an impressive reputation in the industry, making them an ideal partner for Compellent. The storage virtualisation solutions they have created for the HSE and other customers are a must-have for IT managers evaluating virtualisation strategies to reduce complexity and enable disaster recovery.”