December 15, 2006
Compellent Placed in Visionaries Quadrant in Leading Analyst Firm's Magic Quadrant
Company also announces demand for Compellent’s innovative SAN drives rapid customer adoption and greater than 100 percent revenue growth
Minneapolis, Dec. 15, 2006 — Compellent Technologies, a provider of affordable and modular enterprise storage solutions, today announced that Gartner positioned the company in the visionary quadrant of the "Gartner Magic Quadrant for Midrange Enterprise Disk Arrays, 2H06", released on Dec. 13, 2006, and authored by Stanley Zaffos, Roger W. Cox and April Adams.
The Gartner Magic Quadrant measures the completeness of vision and ability to execute of midrange enterprise disk array vendors worldwide. Several factors contribute to the vendors' ratings including market understanding and the ability to demonstrate innovation in meeting customer needs. According to Gartner, "a midrange enterprise disk array storage vendor in the Visionaries Quadrant delivers uniquely innovative products that address operationally or financially important end-user problems, but has not demonstrated the ability to capture market share or sustainable profitability. Visionary vendors are frequently privately held companies and acquisition targets for larger established companies. The likelihood of acquisition often reduces the risks associated with installing their systems."
"We set out less than three years ago to remove the traditional cost and complexity from enterprise storage," said Phil Soran, president and chief executive officer of Compellent. "We think being positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant on the Gartner Magic Quadrant demonstrates that we have listened to end users and delivered innovative capabilities that significantly lower costs for our customers."
Since its introduction in early 2004, Compellent's storage area network (SAN) has attracted more than 400 customers, an international network of channel partners and widespread industry acclaim for the product’s powerful capabilities and ease-of-use. Demand for Compellent’s award-winning midrange storage area network and the operating efficiency of the company's business model will more than double revenue in 2006 and ensure consistent profitability in 2007.
Compellent's SAN represents a major leap forward in storage innovation, radically reducing the total cost of storage acquisition and management. Companies using the SAN have reduced storage costs up to 74 percent, cut storage administration time in half and ensured continuous data availability.
Among its many innovative features that resulted in its debut in the visionary quadrant, Compellent's Storage Center is the industry's only SAN with Automated Tiered Storage, which automatically moves data to the optimum tier of storage based on usage. Additional pioneering features of Compellent's SAN include:
- Thin Provisioning - Reduces storage expenditures, automates capacity planning, and lowers power and cooling requirements by only consuming physical disk when data is written.
- Continuous Snapshots - Provides recovery from any point in time in less than ten seconds by creating an unlimited number of space-efficient snapshots.
- Thin Replication - Lowers capacity, bandwidth and management requirements by up to 50 percent to deliver affordable, multi-site replication without the cost or complexity.
- Advanced Virtualization - Intelligently allocates data across all disk drives in a virtualized environment to increase performance.
- Intuitive Interface - Cuts management time in half with wizards that eliminate repetitive, time-consuming tasks and simplify advanced storage processes.
About Storage Center
Storage Center builds on its Dynamic Block Architecture to deliver a scalable, open-systems hardware platform that is designed to allow businesses to mix and match disk drives, controllers and enclosures; an integrated foundation of core storage capabilities providing functionality previously available only in high-end systems; a suite of software applications that can optimize utilization, automating replication and speeding data recovery; and a single, intuitive, centralized management interface streamlining storage administration.
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. For more information, visit www.compellent.com.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted December 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.