Adds remote site replication and cut-over to roadmap SNW: At SNW in Dallas Compellent has become the first storage array vendor to follow EMC's lead and add solid state storage (SSD) to its product line. It has also added remote site replication with automatic cut-over to the remote site following server failover to its roadmap. Compellent's storage area network (SAN) storage arrays sell to mid-range enterprises. Its array-controlling SW tracks disk block use and moves blocks of data between storage tiers depending on access patterns. SSDs are just another storage tier and Compellent's SW will automatically move blocks to and from the SSD tier 0 as it does already between other tiers. It isn't disclosing its SSD supplier but the SSDs will have Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces and that suggests STEC, EMC's SSD supplier, as it is...
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