Prodata Systems and SmartSys Expand Their Portfolios with Compellent Fluid Data Storage

Amsterdam– 8 March 2010: Compellent today announced it has selected two new business partners in Belgium and Luxembourg, as it expands its 100 percent channel model across EMEA. Prodata Systems, based in Zaventem, and SmartSys, based in Kontich, will support Compellent’s further growth into the Belux region.

Prodata Systems and SmartSys will both be reselling Compellent’s Fluid Data storage as part of their storage and networking solution portfolios. These two new partnerships arrive in a period of rapid expansion for Compellent, which has just secured its 17^th consecutive quarter of revenue growth. As businesses worldwide continue to adopt its efficient and cost-effective storage solution, Compellent helps unlock a business’ data as the industry moves into an era of fluid data management.  

Steven Dahlin, Director of EMEA Sales at Compellent, comments: “With growing demand for our product Compellent is looking for new resellers in the Benelux region that have a depth of skill and experience in the storage market as well as excellent customer relationships. As two of the best performing partners in the region, Prodata Systems and SmartSys will benefit from Compellent’s unique all-channel ‘assisted sales‘ model, which offers a major competitive advantage when it comes to selling and servicing their clients.”

“Prodata’s objective is to help customers align their business operations with the right technology, while eliminating risk,” says Bart Carbonez, General Manager at Prodata Systems. “With several unique features and its modular nature Compellent’s Fluid Data storage allows us to offer our customers a powerful and cost-effective proposition, and we look forward to working closely with Compellent moving forward.

“Our goal is to serve our customers with the best technologies. We have a special interest in products that are suitable for both the SMB and enterprise market. As the Compellent products are scalable and grow with the size of the client, this is a perfect solution to add to our storage portfolio,” explains Koen Van Der Kammen, Account Manager at SmartSys.

Compellent’s Fluid Data storage helps eliminate the scalability challenges and dead-end growth paths common with other storage platforms that cannot be as easily expanded or upgraded. By combining its enterprise storage system with built-in automation and intelligence, Compellent enables data to flow throughout an organization in a way that is directly aligned with the needs of the business. As a result, applications are implemented faster, information to make decisions is constantly available, new technologies are quickly deployed, and data is automatically secured against downtime and disaster.

About Compellent

Compellent Technologies (NYSE: CML) provides Fluid Data storage that automates the movement and management of data at a granular level, enabling organizations to constantly adapt to change, slash costs and secure information against downtime and disaster. This patented, built-in storage intelligence easily delivers significant efficiency, scalability and flexibility. With an all-channel sales network in 35 countries, Compellent is one of the fastest growing enterprise storage companies in the world. For more information and news, visit http://www.compellent.com/nl.

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