Customers and Partners Launch Compellent's Storage Center.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2004 35 customers already using Storage Center to cut storage expenditures in half, recover from data hazards in minutes and streamline storage administration Compellent Technologies, a provider of modular, affordable storage solutions distributed exclusively through a select national network of business partners, today announced the launch of Storage Center(TM) -- an integrated, modular storage area network (SAN) that automates the allocation, utilization, progression and recovery of data through Compellent's Dynamic Block Architecture(TM). Compellent's customers and business partners joined together on Feb. 25, 2004 at the Minnesota History Center to officially launch Storage Center and praise the benefits of a storage solution that is already proven and deployed by dozens of customers. What Customers And Partners Are Saying "What separates Compellent from other solutions is the functionality that accompanies the SAN. The software provides advanced capabilities that just aren't available with the other solutions." - Don Himsl, CNS See Continuous net settlement. CNS See continuous net settlement (CNS). , Customer "Compellent allows us to purchase storage as we need it. With IT budgets the way they are, you don't want to spend money on something you don't need." - Mark Dinsmore, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , Customer "With Compellent - it's great! We now have a system that's easily upgradeable. I don't find myself in a position where I have to spend my weekends doing backups and rebuilding servers. Disk is added within minutes and the expandability is phenomenal." - Andrew Mayberry, HighJump Software, a 3M company, Customer "It was a happy day for me to have tangible figures I could email to my technology committee and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. saying, 'We spent this money on a SAN and look what we already saved as a result of that'." - Steve Remington, Zelle Hofmann, Customer "Compellent's replay feature had us back up and running in a couple of hours after a recent failure - previously we would have been down for several days. It was incredible." - Carla Hedding, Wolf Etter, Customer "What works for us is that our friends at Compellent will not be competing against us in the marketplace. They have no direct sales force and no competing professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. ." - Paul Clifford This article is about the 1830 novel. For the British band member, see The Wonder Stuff. Paul Clifford is a novel published in 1830 by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton. , The Davenport Davenport, city (1990 pop. 95,333), seat of Scott co., E central Iowa, on the Mississippi River; inc. 1836. Bridges connect it with the Illinois cities of Rock Island and Moline; the three communities and neighboring Bettendorf, Iowa, are known as the Quad Cities. Group, Business Partner "A lot of our clients have solutions that have completely locked them in. Compellent's approach gives users control of their systems and enables them to have a manageable system at a reasonable price." - David Payne, Xcedex, Business Partner "Customers' feedback has been great - they wonder why someone hasn't done this before because it is so simple and straightforward." - John Dusek, Convergent Storage Solutions, Business Partner About Compellent's Storage Center Compellent's modular offering, Storage Center, builds on its Dynamic Block Architecture(TM) to deliver a scalable, open-systems hardware platform allowing businesses to mix and match any number of drives, controllers and enclosures; an integrated foundation of core storage capabilities providing functionality previously available only in high-end systems; a powerful suite of software applications optimizing utilization, automating replication and speeding data recovery; and a single, intuitive, centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management interface streamlining all storage administration. About Compellent Compellent delivers affordable, modular storage solutions exclusively through business partners that provide companies of all sizes enterprise-level storage capabilities without big system costs or complexities. Designed by network storage and 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. 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 Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn., Compellent has raised more than $23 million in financing from leading investors including Cargill Ventures, Crescendo cres·cen·do n. pl. cres·cen·dos or cres·cen·di 1. Abbr. cr. Music a. A gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound in a passage. b. Ventures and El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America. Ventures. For more information, visit www.compellent.com. |
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