by Liem Nguyen, (former) Director of Communications and Social Media, Dell Storage — February 22, 2011
Today Compellent shareholders approved the merger with Dell, which means Compellent Fluid Data is joining Dell’s lineup of innovative, award-winning storage products. We’re thrilled to be a part of a great company that shares the same passion for intelligent storage and its role in the enterprise.
Dell is the world’s best at listening to customers and injecting this feedback into everything they do, whether it’s in product development or product support. Dell has also shown a strong commitment to its channel community, which is a big deal for a channel-driven company like us. For Compellent customers, partners and employees, there’s a lot to be excited about today and for the future.
Phil Soran shares in this blog post his excitement for the acquisition and the positive changes for our customers, partners and employees. One of those big changes is that we’re going to combine our C-Drive event with the Dell EqualLogic User Conference and create a new, bigger Dell Storage Forum. Scott Horst, our VP of marketing, explains the reasons why it just made a lot of sense to unite these great conferences. Heck, I feel like we just won the Super Bowl, because we’re going to Disney World!
When the news broke that Dell was planning to acquire Compellent, our customers and partners let us know they were excited about the huge opportunity for the company and our community. We’re grateful for their loyalty and commitment, and it’s an honor to share blog posts from customers and partners who took the time to voice their support for the merger, such as:
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Greg Folsom, Vice President and Information Technology Director, Arnold Worldwide
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Eric Nied, Information Technology Director, Radiology Ltd.
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Luke Bergeron, Technical Writer, Alliance Technologies
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Sonia St. Charles, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Davenport Group
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Mike Kelson, Technical Director, Atlanta Technology
So many customers and partners wanted to weigh in that we collected their comments and we'll post additional blogs over the next couple weeks, so please check back soon.
And, finally, if I may get a little personal here, I’m also very excited about joining the Dell team. Actually I’m re-joining Dell. I spent 9 great years in various technical and corporate communications roles prior to coming to Compellent and I get a kick out of knowing my old badge number is waiting for me. When I started at Dell in 1998, the company was 20,000 strong. Now it has about 100,000 employees. Make that 100,600 employees.
Here are some links for more information—I’ll update with more links as we go along: