by Marchelle Lien, Dell Storage Communications Team — April 12, 2011
It’s been an incredible few months here at Dell Compellent. Becoming a part of Dell has brought a wealth of opportunity for all of us here in Eden Prairie, MN. It’s so exciting to help Dell execute its storage vision and deliver value through open, capable and affordable solutions. To drive towards that vision Dell Compellent is offering career defining opportunities to individuals with the talent and entrepreneurial spirit to help us scale our Fluid Data solutions. If you love technology, and want to a part of a visionary team, join us as we set out to redefine the data center. We’re looking to assemble the best and the brightest to play an integral role in this exciting chapter in the Dell Compellent history.
There are significant hiring plans to fill various positions across the company. Here’s a list of some of the departments that are looking to expand the most:
- Copilot support team
- Engineering (applications, testing, software)
- Marketing (marketing communications, corporate communications, demand generation and marketing programs and product marketing)
- Sales
Interested in learning more? We’d love to meet you! Here’s how:
Public Career Fairs for Dell Compellent hiring
Dates and Times:
Friday, April 15th 10 AM – 4 PM
Saturday, April 16th 10 AM – 12 PM
Location:
Sofitel Minneapolis
5601 West 78th Street Bloomington, MN 55439
If you are unable to make it to the career fairs you can still visit the Dell Compellent job website to apply.
Read below to hear what some of the team had to say about working at Dell Compellent:
“I joined Compellent because of the great culture that lives here, and now that we are Dell Compellent that culture is still here, it’s just getting bigger. The people I work with have gone from colleagues, to acquaintances and ultimately to friends. Our team gets to work with so many different aspects of the business with opportunities to travel the world – what more could you ask for?” Stephanie Schneider, business development representative in sales
“Working for Dell Compellent has given me the opportunity to be a part of a great team that designed a product that has changed the storage industry. As a part of the engineering team we design, test and deploy solutions that truly make our customers’ jobs easier. Our work is both challenging and rewarding, and I look forward to growing our team as we continue to innovate the Dell Compellent storage solution.” Ed Fiore, director of engineering
“ One of the best parts of working in Copilot is the opportunity to support a truly exceptional and innovative product. There is a great amount of pride in knowing we are a part of an industry leading support organization working with an industry leading product. One of the best parts of our job is helping our customers realize the full potential of their Dell Compellent SAN in their IT environment. From the office atmosphere to our friendly customers I couldn’t ask for a better workplace experience.” Matt Puerkel, Copilot support team
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:
by Phil Soran, President, Dell Compellent — February 22, 2011
To our customers, partners, shareholders and employees:
Today, Dell announced that it has successfully completed its acquisition of Compellent. Before I go any further, let me just pause to say thank you.
We didn’t become the world’s fastest growing SAN company by ourselves. We got a lot of help from our loyal customers, partners, employees and shareholders. I believe this acquisition validates the trust you placed in our business and our technology. The opportunity in front of us wouldn’t be here without your passion and hard work.
As for the opportunity ahead, our shareholders approved the merger because they recognized the synergies between Compellent and Dell. For both, our roots are entrepreneurial and our cultures are similar, we have a shared vision for the future of IT – and we’ve separately engineered innovative technologies in line with our vision. From today on, our two companies will work as one to make that vision a reality for enterprises around the world.
As we celebrate this milestone in both companies’ successful histories, I’d like to offer a few thoughts about the days ahead:
What This Means to Our Employees
Nine years ago today three guys got together in the basement. And I want to acknowledge my partners, John Guider and Larry Aszmann. Guys, take a bow. In 2002, when we started this company, we had a vision: to create a company that would innovate and improve on the existing state of storage – to create fluid technology that encouraged customers to purchase fewer, not more, drives; to provide excellent service and support; and to be a true and honest partner to the channel and to our customers.
I’m very proud of the achievements of our employees – how we created something worth almost a billion dollars in value. Let me give some examples of the great work done by our team over the years:
- Delivered $414.9 million in total revenue from 2004 to 2010
- Supported a total of 1,300 dependents and employees
- Teamed with 522 channel partners
- Processed 23,506 sales orders, and
- Shipped 7,000 controllers in 4,100 systems to 2600 customers
Not many companies can say they did that. Together, this team started a business, raised money, built a product, found channel partners, and turned it all into something much bigger than the sum of its pieces and parts – bigger than all of us. And together we will help Dell redefine the data center.
What This Means to Our Customers
First and foremost, I want to emphasize that our world-class customer experience will not change. I recognize that for many of our valued customers, Copilot is their favorite Compellent feature and our customers can continue to count on that personalized level of service excellence you have come to know and love from our great Copilot team.
Dell is committed to adding more resources to support our customers, and more resources to keep innovating our product. Together with Dell, we can accelerate new features, new integration, and scale deeper into the data center to help customers turn IT from a cost center to a flexible business productivity center. I thank you for your support and it’s very gratifying to see such great enthusiasm for joining the Dell family.
What This Means to Our Channel Partners
You’ve heard me say that the channel is in our DNA. Our goal with Dell is to protect and grow Compellent’s channel relationships. Dell announced a long-term registration program for all Dell PartnerDirect channel partners that are certified to sell storage, helping partners grow and nurture their customer relationships as trusted IT advisors once they have sold a Dell storage solution.
All current Compellent partners will be “grandfathered” into the Dell Certified Partner Program as Storage Certified Partners, which offers many benefits, including access to a diverse portfolio of products, healthy margins and list-price discounts. More information about these benefits can be found on the Dell PartnerDirect site.
The New Dell Storage Forum 2011
We have joined forces to launch a combined storage conference to help partners and customers get the most from their product investment and ongoing relationship with us. Our first ever Dell Storage Forum will take place June 5-11, 2010 in Orlando, Florida at the Walt Disney Resort. This is where storage magic will happen. The new conference will take all of the things you love about C-Drive and grow it into a bigger event. It’s also the first time Dell will dedicate a track just for channel partners.
Scott Horst’s blog explains why it made sense for us to combine C-Drive with the EqualLogic user conference, two very successful events, into one for the entire Dell storage community. We will also look at hosting Europe and Asia events throughout the year – so stay tuned for updates.
Thanks to your vision, loyalty and support, we have created a community that is passionate about innovative storage technology. Innovation is core to Compellent and our award-winning product. We know we have something very special in Compellent. And Dell recognizes it too.
Thank you.
Phil