Compellent's Business Momentum Grows as IMG Becomes 1,000th Customer.Global Sports and Entertainment Leader Chooses Compellent to Enable Virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , Business Continuity of its Corporate IT Infrastructure Worldwide EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Arca: CML 1. CML - A query language. ["Towards a Knowledge Description Language", A. Borgida et al, in On Knowledge Base Management Systems, J. Mylopoulos et al eds, Springer 1986]. 2. CML - Concurrent ML. ) today announced that global sports and entertainment company IMG IMG International medical graduate, see there is the 1,000th organization to select the Compellent storage area network (SAN). IMG will use the Compellent SAN as the foundation for its innovative, global virtual data center to help manage rapid data growth, ensure business continuity and reduce storage costs. "Today we are celebrating that IMG is the 1,000th customer to join our community - forward thinkers that share our vision to grow their businesses through easy-to-manage and easy-to-upgrade enterprise storage," said Phil Soran, Compellent president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Starting with Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, our first customer in 2004, companies like IMG are part of the growing movement in our industry away from legacy platforms toward more agile, cost-effective and energy-efficient storage architectures." After reviewing several legacy and next-generation systems IMG chose Compellent for its ease-of-use, virtualization and disaster recovery capabilities. The company will replace existing storage systems with Compellent SANs in London; Bradenton, Florida; New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Sydney and anticipates additional worldwide locations. IMG will use Compellent storage to support its global offices with IT services based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and VMware virtualized servers. "Working with Compellent to create our global virtual data center will allow us to cost-effectively deliver unique services and continuous support to the top corporate, sports and entertainment brands in the world," said Steve Purewall, global network manager at IMG. "Compellent's ease- of-use and integration of must-have storage features like automated tiered storage Automated Tiered Storage is a product from Compellent. It stores information in a database in such way, that information searched for more often is moved to a different tier, producing faster search results. , thin provisioning and thin replication set them apart from the other vendors we were evaluating." In addition to IMG, Compellent recently signed on General Information Services See Information Systems. , Inc. (GIS), a leader in providing comprehensive background screening solutions for clients like the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. and McDonald's; and Australian Aerospace, a wholly owned member company of the EADS EADS European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. EADS Expeditionary Air Defense System (USMC) EADS Extended Air Defense Systems EADS Environmental Assessment Data System EADS Echelons Above Division Study group, which also includes Airbus. Compellent is committed to providing the most efficient storage to help customers take the virtual data center to the next level, cutting overall capital and operating costs and reducing energy consumption. "For a company to hit the 1,000th customer milestone this fast is almost unheard of," said Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst of the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG ESG Enterprise Strategy Group (Veritas) ESG Emergency Shelter Grant (Florida, USA) ESG Expeditionary Strike Group ESG Electronic Service Guide (used in DVB) ). "Compellent's momentum proves that there is always room for a company with truly innovative technologies and equally innovative go-to-market strategies no matter how tough the competitive landscape." For additional information on IMG's selection of Compellent and ESG's analysis of Compellent's business momentum, visit www.compellent.com/1000. About IMG Operating in 30 countries, IMG Sports & Entertainment's diverse businesses include: consulting services; event ownership and management; fashion events and models representation; licensing; golf course design; and client representation in golf, tennis, broadcasting, speakers, European football, rugby, cricket, motor sports, coaching, Olympic and action sports. IMG Academies are the world's largest, multi-sport training and educational facilities, delivering world-class training experiences to more than 12,000 junior, collegiate, adult, and professional athletes each year. IMG Entertainment, the entertainment production and distribution division of IMG Worldwide, is one of the world's largest independent producers of drama, comedy, unscripted un·script·ed adj. Not adhering to or in accordance with a script written beforehand: "his unscripted encounters with the press" Eleanor Clift. , fashion, documentary and children's content. IMG Entertainment's production subsidiaries include the award-winning Darlow Smithson Productions, Tiger Aspect Productions Tiger Aspect Productions is a British television production company, particularly noted for its situation comedies. Co founded by Oscar® winner Peter Bennett-Jones, its productions have included popular hits such as The Vicar of Dibley (shown on BBC One) and Mr. and Tigress Productions. IMG Sports Media is the world's largest independent producer and distributor of sports programming, producing more than 8,000 hours of television, online, mobile and radio sports content across 240 categories of sports. For more information visit: www.imgworld.com. About Compellent Compellent is a leading provider of enterprise-class network storage solutions that are highly scalable, feature-rich and designed to be easy to use and cost effective. Compellent Technologies' principal offices are located in Eden Prairie, Minn. For more information, please visit: http://www.compellent.com. |
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