MaximumASP, a leading provider of Windows-based Web hosting services, has chosen Compellent’s storage area network (SAN) to provide instant disaster recovery and enable end-users to more easily grow, access, manage, backup and secure their information.

MaximumASP, based in Louisville, Ky., is a leading Microsoft Windows- based hosting service with customers in more than 60 countries. As the company expanded its advanced monitoring and management operations to serve more than 44,000 Web domains, MaximumASP needed to update its network-attached storage system. MaximumASP installed the Compellent Storage Center SAN to streamline administration, continuously back up both the company’s and its clients’ critical information and provide immediate offsite replication.

MaximumASP Managing Partner Wade Lewis said he selected Storage Center because his IT staff can spend just a few hours, not days, each week managing data compared to the previous storage system. Storage Center’s ease-of-use, integrated storage management applications and automated capacity planning allows MaximumASP to easily keep pace with its rapidly growing data needs.

With Compellent’s scalability and modularity, Maximum ASP can also quickly expand its disaster recovery offerings to end-users. Storage Center’s support for heterogeneous server connections including iSCSI and the ability to dynamically migrate data between SATA and Fibre Channel disks enables MaximumASP to keep storage expenditures low and accelerate its growth in the high-end dedicated server hosting industry.

“Our goal is to continuously offer state-of-the-art business continuity and provide world-class hosting and data center services to our clients,” Lewis continued. “Our online disk storage capacity requirements are growing at a rate of 300 percent as we expand to meet our clients’ needs for backup and restore services. Compellent’s ease-of-use allows us to provide each client customized storage capabilities efficiently and cost-effectively, while cutting our administrative time in half.”

“Customers like MaximumASP look for highly scalable storage systems that give them greater efficiencies when managing a growing server and storage infrastructure,” said Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing for Compellent. “Storage Center has the flexibility to connect a variety of storage and network protocols in an all-in-one system that can expand exponentially as customer needs grow.”

About Compellent

Compellent delivers affordable, modular storage solutions exclusively through business partners that provide companies of all sizes enterprise storage capabilities without big system costs or complexities. Designed by network storage and virtualization pioneers, Compellent enables any business to cut storage expenditures in half, recover from data hazards within minutes, scale to any capacity across any technology and easily manage its storage without adding staff. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn., Compellent has raised more than $53 million in financing from leading investors including Cargill Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, El Dorado Ventures and The Nomura Group. For more information, visit www.compellent.com.

About MaximumASP

MaximumASP based in Louisville, Ky., was founded in 2000 as an outsourcing firm for Microsoft Windows based hosting services. The company currently hosts more than 44,000 domains for customers in over 60 countries. With a strong focus on hosting solutions that combine advanced monitoring and management tools, MaximumASP has become a top choice for Microsoft developers seeking a robust hosting platform for mission-critical web applications. For more information visit www.maximumasp.com