by Ryan Sclanders, Infrastructure Manager, Credit Market Analysis — March 08, 2010
We are really excited to be ahead of the wave as one of Compellent's first EMEA customers to be part of its new Fluid Data strategy.
Financial institutions across the world depend upon our products and services 24/7. In a $34 trillion market, our clients rely on our pricing data to enhance their ability to manage risk, value their portfolios and understand market trends and themes.
The pressure is therefore on to make sure all of our IT solutions can support us and our clients. Compellent offers a combination of virtualisation and Fluid Data infrastructure, which made it an ideal choice. Not only is it easy to use, but its intelligent automated tiered storage allows the data to flow up and down the tiers. This reduces management costs, avoids unnecessary disk purchases and minimises power costs.
Editor’s Note: Ryan Sclanders of CMA is a Compellent customer and the contributor of this blog post. To learn more about CMA and their use of Compellent systems, watch this video and read this case study.
by Maryna Frolova, PR Coordinator — February 23, 2010
With a new site, come new opportunities for more interaction with you, our blog readers, customers, partners and industry peers who are all part of our Fluid Data community. You’ve heard our internal experts talk about Compellent technology in previous “Around the Block” posts. We’ll keep that content coming, but now we would also like encourage others in our industry to contribute to our blog and offer their take on all things storage and beyond.
Are you a storage expert? Do you know your LUNs from a LAN? Do you have an interesting viewpoint that you’d like to share with our readers? Let us know. Click the 'Become a Contributor' button or email me at Maryna Frolova at mfrolova@compellent.com or Liem Nguyen at lnguyen@compellent.com if you’d like to write a guest post. This is our official open call for contributors. Help make this a page that people can turn to for relevant information that helps them make better IT decisions. Please chime in on what others have posted and provide your feedback on what and how we’re doing.
This is just the first step. Down the road we’ll add forums for people to ask and answer questions about Compellent storage and other interactive features. (Right now customers can continue to discuss best practices through our secure end-user portal.)
Check back often! Beyond the blog and guest contributors, this page will be updated with current customer stories, expert videos, useful resources, analyst reports and much more.
by Phil Soran, President & CEO — February 22, 2010
When we founded this company more than seven years ago, the world was going through a series of profound changes, not unlike what we are experiencing today: a digital data explosion, economic turbulence, natural disasters and more. At the same time, companies were frustrated with the rigid boundaries of their existing storage: dead-end growth paths, limited point products, wasted capacity, system complexity and skyrocketing costs. IT felt stuck in the system’s same old storage system.
As a result, we saw an opportunity to shake up the status quo and produce a solution built around what customers truly wanted. From this simple revelation came the incredible revolution we now call Fluid Data. Fluid Data has been at the core of Compellent since day one. It has allowed us to take on the industry giants with great ideas, revolutionary products and a fresh way of doing business. With the unwavering commitment of our customers, partners and employees, we’ve become the world’s fastest growing storage company, and we’ll take another big step forward.
We see an opportunity to start a new conversation about data. Whereas other systems treat data as a static thing, we believe data should be actively, intelligently managed and moved throughout a business wherever and whenever it’s needed. We’re out to boldly tell the world an essential truth about data, and that truth is that data needs to be fluid.
To help you learn and share the Fluid Data story, we’ve launched a new Web site and other materials that help define what’s fluid, and what’s not. We hope you’ll agree that the Future is Fluid.
As always, the Compellent team and I thank you for your support.
Phil Soran, President and CEO
Editor’s note: This post is adapted from a letter CEO Phil Soran sent to employees, customers and partners announcing our new Web site and the conversation we’re having on “Fluid Data.”