Compellent Announced Enterprise Manager 3.1

Compellent Technologies, Inc. announced
Enterprise Manager 3.1, the newest version of its enterprise-class
storage resource management (SRM) tool.

Bruce Kornfeld,
Compellent’s vice president of marketing, said organizations worldwide
– regardless of industry or size – are facing unbridled data growth,
and need tools to help better manage their storage, while minimizing
data center power consumption.

“We developed new features for
Enterprise Manager to address business needs head-on; with 3.1, IT
departments can rely on automated usage reporting to accurately
chargeback costs to individual business units,” added Kornfeld. “This
new version also includes software that automates reporting for actual
energy cost and carbon emission savings, providing precise data to
support green IT initiatives ─ the latest step we’re taking to extend
the life of data centers with energy-efficient SAN technologies.”

New features and benefits of Enterprise Manager 3.1 include:

• Storage Savings “Hero” Reports: Translates use of
  technologies like thin provisioning, continuous snapshots and automated
  tiered storage into real IT cost savings that administrators can
  provide to their senior management as financial “hero” reports
• Power Savings Report: Creates a ‘green’ savings
  report, automatically calculating annual savings in electricity (kWhr)
  and carbon dioxide emissions to reinforce environmental footprint
  reduction initiatives
• Storage-Based Chargeback: Associates actual
  storage usage with individual business departments to enable storage
  cost recovery for enterprises of all sizes

“As our data
center and virtualization needs evolved, we needed to defray the costs
by spreading them across the whole business, instead of just in the IT
department,” explained Brian Priebe, IT manager, BancMidwest Services
Corp., a subsidiary of Mainstreet Bank. “Using Enterprise Manager, we
were able to pull together a ‘hero’ report to rationalize our expenses
and savings in just minutes, showing how we can allocate storage to
each office, but only chargeback based on actual consumption. And now
with the emissions reports, we no longer convert our power and cooling
cost by hand ─ the reports calculate our carbon output and translate it
into savings down to the penny, which serves as a powerful platform for
cost reduction and environmental responsibility.”

Enterprise
Manager simplifies SAN management through automated SRM functions, such
as comprehensive reports on storage costs and utilization that enable
organizations to increase data center efficiency and easily manage
storage capacity. Designed for use with Compellent Storage Center, the
company’s award-winning storage area network (SAN), Enterprise Manager
also automates replication between multiple Compellent SANs for
disaster recovery and business continuity. In addition, the integrated
Free Space Recovery utility helps improve utilization by reclaiming
file space from deleted Windows files and removing deleted blocks from
overall volume size.

Compellent Enterprise Manager 3.1 is
immediately available through Compellent’s international network of
business partners. Each application, Enterprise Manager Foundation,
Enterprise Manager Reporter and Enterprise Manager Chargeback, can be
purchased separately starting at about $1,300 (maintenance and service
are not included). Existing Enterprise Manager customers with current
support agreements can download the software at no additional cost.

Compellent Technologies, Inc.