by Scott Horst, Director of Marketing, Compellent Technologies — October 16, 2009
At Compellent we pride ourselves on listening to your feedback and taking action on it. We try to incorporate as many customer and partner suggestions as possible. It was your feedback from last year’s C-Drive that led us to this year’s theme – “Compellent At Your Core”. The more suggestions you made, the more we realized you wanted C-Drive to be completely about Compellent – all Compellent, all the time. We thought that talking about ourselves all the time wouldn’t be polite. You know we are “Minnesota nice.” You helped us understand that we need to make Compellent front and center in every session. So we did, and that’s the story behind the theme.
Storage serves as the foundation for every data center, and Compellent is an open, agile, virtual platform that can act as the core for any enterprise – whether it is a customer using our system or a channel partner selling it. Customers love that it can be the core of their on-demand data center – driving efficiency, simplicity and availability to new levels. Partners love that it can be the core of their IT offering – driving revenue, profits and trust for their business. Technology Partners love that Compellent is open, innovative and can be at the core of a total technology solution.
Compellent can serve as the core of a new IT ecosystem and is built for the virtual world. C-Drive 2010 is here to connect everyone to Compellent and to each other, to enable all of us to get to the core, to go deeper, to gain a new depth of understanding on our technology, our team, and how we all get better together.
With that in mind, we’re excited to open up registration and work even harder to make this event the place to be.
Channel Partners – Get Compellent to the Core of Your IT Solution.
Get to the core on every feature on every deal. Get to the core on the competition, and get to the core in your career – driving higher sales and profits for you and your business.
Customers – Get Compellent to the Core of Your Data Center.
Get to the core on features and architecture, get to the core on configurations and best practices, and get to the core in your career. See how Compellent can help you architect the latest solutions, automate data center operations, and instantly respond with IT services that let your business grow on demand.
Technology Partners – Get Compellent to the Core of Your Business.
Get to the core on our customers and channel partners, get to the core on our open, innovative architecture and get to the core on our company and culture – see how we can make all of us better together by serving as the foundation for a fluid data center of the future.
We hope you can join us this year for one of the industry’s fastest-growing IT forums. Here’s where you can go for more information.
Official Compellent C-Drive 2010 site: http://cdrive.compellent.com/
Registration is open: Register Now
Real-time updates from Twitter: http://twitter.com/cdrive
E-mail address for questions: CompellentCDRIVE@triadconferences.com
And if you want to contact me directly you can find me at shorst@compellent.com or http://twitter.com/scotthorst