2006

Media Mentions

CRN named Compellent Number 1 Storage Standout
November 2006

"Compellent is unusual in that, for the year before the announcement of its first product, they spent stealth mode in meeting with solution providers and their customers to find out what they needed."
Compellent Listed on 2006 CRN Emerging Vendor List
October 27, 2006

"Storage and security companies dominate CRN's Emerging Vendor list delivering high margins for partners by bringing to market innovative, easy-to-use and affordable products that compete with offerings from industry giants."
Compellent adds WAN optimization to array software
October 16, 2006

One user of Compellent's new StorageCenter SAN 3.5 estimated he's saved $40,000 a year in maintenance fees by dumping a third-party replication product.
SearchStorageChannel.com
Compellent Technologies Adds Thin Replication in Storage Center 3 5
October 16, 2006

"During the first presentation, I was blown away by how easy it was to use. Replication here was pretty much backing up to tapes and then shipping it offsite, so it was important to find something to replace that system, and have it be simple to use."
eWeek
Compellent Introduces Thin Replication
October 16, 2006

"The new version of Compellent's Storage Center SAN platform is designed to cut bandwidth and storage management requirements by half."
InfoStor
Compellent Adds Thin Replication To Storage Center
October 16, 2006

"Storage Center 3.5 adds Thin Replication, which creates volumes at the remote site based on actual written data without needing space to be preallocated."
ISCSI Gains Strength from Servers
October 5, 2006

"A self-fulfilling cycle has begun to take effect in which increasing implementations of iSCSI is ironing out the bugs causing IP storage to get sharper, driving adoption even further."
SearchStorage.com
What Storage Managers are Buying and Why
October 2006

"Creative Benefits evaluated vendors' arrays, with Compellent and Network Appliance (NetApp) Inc. emerging as its two finalists. In the end, functionality and price were the decisive factors."
SearchStorage.com
Users Mull ILM Muddle
September 2006

"With Compellent, we don’t need to worry about data classification, it just happens in the background."
Compellent Looking to Go Public Soon
September 2006

"With an additional $15 million in venture capital in hand, the data storage firm has plans to go public - when the IPO market is right."
Disaster and Recovery
September 8, 2006

"What's so exciting is that Compellent has pulled disaster recovery from the rarified, high-priced world of SunGuard and Comdisco and put it in the hands of the bread-and-butter solution providers delivering end-to-end IT solutions to SMBs."
A Fresh Approach to Storage
September 2006

"Compellent's tag line 'A storage solution every company can afford and any administrator can use' were clearly goals for the product during development because the phrase kept rolling through my head while I was using it."
Case Study Series Part 3 of 3 Users embrace D2D
July 2006

"Compellent's data instant replay and replication technology provides NYU School of Medicine with faster and more consistent recovery, fundamentally changing the role of tape backup."
InfoStor
De-Classifying Data Classification
June 29, 2006

"Compellent's classification makes sure files taking up the most expensive storage are being accessed repeatedly."
Compellent Users Try Tiered Storage Automation
June 27, 2006

"Tiered storage is not something I could imagine managing manually," said Bill Snow, IT director for Moss & Associates.
SearchStorage.com
Compellent Announces ILM in a Box
June 26, 2006

QuickStart ILM has allowed Kenosha Unified School District to move 70% to 90% of their 3,500 Exchange mailboxes to a lower tier of storage, saving "tons of room".
Compellent Aims to Simplify ILM
June 26, 2006

"Compellent eliminates the labor-intensive nature of ILM, by automating the classification and movement of data."
eWeek
Storage Startups Gain Users Trust
June 20, 2006

Classified Ventures attributes new traction to a kind of "leapfrog" effect in technology innovation. "At this point, I think the only difference between Tier-1 and Tier-2 vendors is price tag."
SearchStorage.com
VMWare Users Want More From Storage
June 8, 2006

Chris Resch, CTO OfficeWare, Inc. went with a FC SAN from Compellent, cutting his backup window in half.
SearchStorage.com
Faster and Larger NAS - Part 3
June 5, 2006

"Compellent's partnership with ONStor delivers the market's first integrated SAN and NAS product, uniting the benefits of both block and file storage."
Trends In Tiered Storage Architecture
June 2, 2006

Discusses latest capabilities in tiered storage and provides recommendations to help identify solutions that lower storage costs and streamline management.
Healthcare Firm Meets Remote Challenges
May 26, 2006

AHC Inc. needed to get images to its five branch locations in a timely fashion – and a rock solid disaster recovery plan. "We selected Compellent because they were the only vendor that met all of our criteria."
Compellent Storage Center
May 4, 2006

"Compellent puts an interesting new twist on ILM as its Storage Center aims to provide a solution that removes all the hassle of data classification."
Orange County Tires of Waiting for Xiotech Upgrades
April 21, 2006

We were looking for asynchronous replication, snapshots, and policy-based data migration – features that the Magnitude did not have.
SearchStorage.com
Compellent ONStor combine SAN NAS
March 29, 2006

Compellent and ONStor’s integrated SAN and NAS solution enables Automated Tiered Storage of both block and file data without the data-classification policies required by many information lifecycle management (ILM) products.
InfoStor