by Scott Horst, Director of Marketing, Compellent Technologies — November 17, 2009
If you want to raise your Storage IQ, get to C-Drive this year. Based on your feedback, we continue to enhance our conference to make it more geared toward you and your needs. Sign up now at the early bird rate and take advantage of some of the key benefits we have ready for you:
- No price increase for channel partner and end user registration fees. We’ve held the line again on price increases, delivering the best value in IT for an industry conference. Take advantage now as we can’t guarantee prices will stay the same for 2011.
- More technical content in sessions. We are focusing sessions even more on the key technical aspects of Compellent, getting right to the core on architecture, data center automation, configuration and best practices. These technical deep dives will also run longer than last year, providing more time to talk and interact.
- More live demonstrations. We are adding more equipment next year, and will be spending more time showing, rather than just telling across a wide variety of sessions. See first-hand how it really works for new features, for integrated solutions and for bigger picture business solutions.
- New sales content. Yes, we’ll continue to provide the basics on how to sell our features, but now we’ve got new content on how to sell our total solution. This content is being developed by the same team that brought your Top Gun training and it goes from
- New Super Sessions – Super Sessions feature our Principal Storage Architects, probably the smartest guys on the planet about storage, and they will explain things that instantly raise your storage IQ. Super Sessions are a live technology showcase featuring real-world business scenarios. We’ll have a team of technical experts on stage focused on assembling a complete hardware and software solution. They’ll put it together and tear it apart, all right before your eyes.
- Returning to downtown Minneapolis. You asked for it, and we are delivering another conference in downtown Minneapolis. This puts you within walking distance of dozens of local attractions and in the middle of a busy, vibrant city night and day.
- Both basic and advanced sessions. We are working behind the scenes to offer content for both returning attendees and new attendees, tagging our sessions with labels so you know where to aim with your attendance.
- More Compellent employee involvement. Meet and greet with every major department within the Compellent organization, from Copilot Support to Storage Architects to the Engineering team and more. If you don’t see who you want, ask us and we’ll work to get you access. Meet the people you rely on face to face and have time to go beyond the day to day.
Put Compellent at your core this year and get to C-Drive. Register at cdrive.compellent.com.