Around The Block Blog
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 — June 11, 2010
Five years is a long time in the storage industry. Five years ago, Compellent’s thin provisioning technology was a year old, and we introduced sub-LUN, block-level automated tiered storage to the world. Five years ago, Beth Pariseau, @PariseauTT, started covering the storage industry over at SearchStorage.com. That’s when Compellent first started working with her, offering our perspective on storage issues and connecting her with our customers across various industries, and we’ve enjoyed a great working relationship ever since. She was always willing to hear our point of view, and that means a lot to a growing company in this competitive market. Today Beth announced she’s moving on from the storage beat and will cover broader IT topics in the Data Center and Server Virtualization Group for TechTarget (the parent company to SearchStorage).
While I’m sure we’ll continue to share ideas on the role of storage virtualization in the data center, we’re going to miss regularly working with Beth. When I joined Compellent in 2007, I already knew of Beth’s reputation for balanced reporting, always digging at the story behind the story and never taking any vendor’s claims at face value. I first met Beth in person over dinner (Chinese) while at SNW Spring 2007 in San Diego. I found out that besides being a good reporter, she was a die-hard fan(atic) about all sports teams Boston, and we also compared notes about digital photography. She clearly knew more about ISO and F numbers than I did, and who was playing well or playing hurt. News briefings and phone calls since then have tended to include sideline discussions about the unimaginable life of Tom Brady or whether David Ortiz’s bat swing evoked fear or regret. Regrettably, I was supposed to take her to lunch last year but I broke my leg (playing touch football of all things) and had to take a raincheck.
Beth, the Compellent team wishes you all the best in your new role and thank you for sharing our passion for storage and sports. It’s been a fun and exciting journey for all of us as the market has changed so much over the past five years. We look forward to working with you on new stories, and also following you over @Cursed_to_First . Hopefully you and I will have that lunch soon.
by Maryna Frolova, PR Specialist, Dell Storage — 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.