Ingran Africa, a local storage specialist and distributor of Compellent Technologies, has announced that Compellent Technologies has once again received the InfoWorld 2010 'Technology of the Year Award' for its Storage Area Network (SAN), making this the third consecutive year for which this product has been acknowledged as a leader in the storage industry.
“InfoWorld Technology of the Year award winners are not just the best products in their class, but the products that are leading the way in the technology categories that businesses and IT professionals should care most about,” said Doug Dinely, executive editor for Test Centre, InfoWorld. “These are the products that are changing the way businesses operate and how people work.”
Selected by IDG's InfoWorld Test Centre editors and reviewers, the annual awards identify the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape. Not all categories are judged every year and the SAN award is given out every other year. Winners are selected from all of the products tested during the past year, with the final selections made by InfoWorld's Test Centre staff.
Ingran Africa managing director Andre Moller says the Compellent SAN was chosen for the way it combines enterprise-class features, great performance over fibre channel or iSCSI and remarkable ease-of-use. “As stated by InfoWorld Test Centre, even untrained administrators can effectively manage their storage system with the Compellent SAN's intuitive wizards.”
The Compellent SAN offers enterprise features, such as automated tiered storage, advanced virtualisation, thin provisioning, continuous snapshots and thin replication enabling fluid data management for enterprises of all sizes.
More experienced personnel can use the simple command line scripting interface to provision multiple LUNs with one step. In giving the award to Compellent, InfoWorld also emphasised that “in virtualisation environments, cloning drives to make new VMs is very easy and quick, and protecting critical VMs via replication to a second array is a snap.
“InfoWorld is one of the most influential and respected IT resources available, and we're thrilled to receive the Technology of the Year Award recognition again. It is truly an honour to have the editors and reviewers recognise how Compellent's unique approach to storage is helping IT departments be more efficient and reduce storage costs through the life of a system,” he concludes.
For more information, contact Ingran Africa on (011) 454-6113 or visit http://www.ingran.co.za.
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Ingran Africa, a privately owned South African company that was formed in 2002, is a specialist supplier of products and services in its three focus areas namely thin client technologies, enterprise data storage solutions and bandwidth compression and management. The company is a registered black economic empowered (BEE) company with a level 2 rating from BEE Matrix.
Ingran Africa is focused on bringing new emerging technologies into the South African market. The company specialises in data storage infrastructure, data storage management software, implementation services and disaster tolerance/recovery planning services. Its solutions represented are from technology OEMs that offer compelling solutions with real business benefits.
Its mission is to supply and support best-of-breed IT solutions within the boundaries of its focus. Its primary loyalty is to its clients, and its commitment is to provide them with high quality, dependable business solutions at a fair price, thereby establishing long-term business relationships and supporting them on an ongoing basis.
The company focuses on areas where it has experience and competence so that it can deliver a professional and value added service to its clients. Specialities include data storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions and support services.
Ingran Africa has been greatly involved with the data storage market; it has identified the need for a specialised data protection company delivering high levels of service as a “one-stop solutions provider”. The company has built a trusted reputation in the IT industry with partnerships being awarded by local and international companies.
Its strategy is to provide the best business solution and to build long-term relationships coupled with the best customer service. Its skills allow it to approach customers differently from its competitors, as it is not bound to a particular technology or brand. It also allows Ingran Africa to integrate different technologies and to deliver the best solution to its customers.
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