Fluid Data Storage: Driving Flexibility in the Data Center White Paper

Today’s dynamic business landscape is no place for complex, inefficient storage systems with dead-end growth paths. The demand for data continues to explode and ready access to that data is more critical than ever. Yet most enterprise storage solutions fall short, underutilizing data center resources, wasting IT staff time and leaving organizations at risk of unnecessary downtime.

All of these factors quickly eat into the bottom line. IT departments are forced to purchase, house, power and cool more hardware than needed. Administrators waste considerable time and effort managing complicated storage systems. And backup and recovery is slow and unreliable, leading to gaps in productivity and backlogs in business transactions. Quickly the costs associated with managing enterprise data can become overwhelming.

To compound matters, organizations continue to find themselves locked into proprietary storage platforms that can’t be easily expanded or upgraded. This lack of flexibility and scalability leads to early obsolescence and costly forklift upgrades. Ultimately, administrators are left to coerce rigid storage systems to address core business needs, only to repeat the cycle with each inevitable system overhaul.

With Dell Compellent™, enterprise data is actively and  intelligently managed throughout its lifecycle so you can constantly adapt to changing business conditions. Together, a Fluid Data architecture, storage virtualization, intelligent software and modular hardware bring unprecedented efficiency, simplicity and security to enterprise storage. Data center resources are utilized to their full potential. Built-in intelligence and automation ensure data is available when and where it’s needed. And an open, persistent hardware platform scales in line with business needs to protect storage investments over the long term.