Compellent Technologies (NYSE Arca: CML) today announced it has received a gold "Best of VMworld 2008" award in the "Hardware for Virtualisation" category. The Compellent Storage Centre 4.0 storage area network (SAN) was recognised as the ideal storage platform for the virtual data centre built with VMware server virtualisation technology.
"The 'Best of VMworld 2008' award recognises the reduced costs, automated disaster recovery and greener facilities enterprises can experience by combining VMware and Compellent virtualisation," said Bruce Kornfeld, vice-president of marketing, Compellent.
"We continue to collaborate closely with virtualisation leaders like VMware to provide the most flexible end-to-end virtualisation platforms, regardless if they're being deployed at a customer's data centre or as shared resources for cloud IT services."
Compellent is a VMware Global Technology Alliance Program partner, and the Compellent SAN is HCL-certified with VMware. The active collaboration with VMware extends to support for VMware Site Recovery Manager, ensuring seamless integration for automated disaster recovery. Details on Compellent's interoperability with VMware are available at http://www.compellent.com/vmware, and information on how the Compellent SAN is designed to be the smartest storage for server virtualisation is available at http://www.compellent.com/virtual.
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