Best Practices in Infrastructure Management
June 2008
Compellent customer, Munder Capital Management won IDG’s Computerworld “Best Practices in Infrastructure Management” Award in the Data Center Management, IT Operations and Business Continuity category. Munder Capital Management, a financial investment firm with $29.6 billion in managed assets, was honored for its implementation of Compellent’s storage area network (SAN) as the foundation for its business continuity strategy. |  |
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year-Upper Midwest Region
June 2008
The Entrepreneur Of The Year awards recognize the men and women who excel at growing and sustaining market-leading businesses. They are pioneers and innovators — people like Michael Dell of Dell Inc.; Pierre Omidyar of eBay, Inc.; and Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines.
Compellent’s three co-founders, Larry Aszmann, John Guider and Phil Soran, were recently honored in the Emerging category at the Upper Midwest regional program. |  |
InfoWorld Green15 Award
April 2008
InfoWorld's Green 15 honors the top 15 green technology initiatives undertaken by organizations in the past year. Compellent customer, gm2 Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company located near London, replaced its inefficient legacy storage system with two Compellent storage area networks (SANs) to create an IT infrastructure with high uptime and ensure business continuity. Compellent’s management of data inside the volume resulted in fewer storage drives required and helped the company shrink the data center footprint and consume less power. By pairing the Compellent SANs with VMware-based virtual servers, the company reduced its data center footprint by one-third and consolidated its 36 servers into six blade servers.
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Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards for Midrange Arrays
April 2008
The Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability based on a survey of Storage magazine readers conducted by Diogenes Labs. The Compellent SAN was ranked no. 1 in product features, technical support and sales-force competence. According to the survey, 100 percent of Compellent customers would purchase their systems again. Commenting on Compellent’s Copilot support services, Community Health Plan IT Operations Manager Cary Dahl said, “Whether you call at 2 a.m. or 2 p.m., they’ve been very responsive.” Compellent beat out midrange storage systems from 14 other vendors including Dell/EqualLogic, Dell/EMC, EMC, HP, Hitachi, IBM, NetApp, and Sun.
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April 2008
Storage Networking World Best Practices in Storage
Two Compellent customers, the University of North Texas (UNT) and Gaston County, North Carolina, were chosen as finalists for the "Best Practices in Storage" awards, sponsored by Storage Networking World (SNW) in conjunction with Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
UNT was selected as a finalist for the "Innovation and Promise" category, which recognizes successful "pioneering" of leading storage networking technology. Gaston County was chosen as a finalist for the "Storage Reliability and Data Recovery" category for implementation strategies and programs that ensure highly available information and data access. |  |
MicroScope Aces Award Finalist
March 20, 2008
For its green storage technology and efforts to reduce energy consumption, Compellent has been nominated as the Environmental Company of the Year by MicroScope, a leading channel publication in the UK.
More information about the awards competition is available here.
Winners will be announced May 21, 2008. |  |
Network Products Guide 2008 Product Innovations Award
February 2008
Recognizing the Compellent Storage Center 4.0 as “the first SAN to manage data inside the volume, to automate tiered storage within every drive, amplify the storage utilization benefits of thin provisioning and reclaim unused disk space,” Network Products Guide has honored Compellent with a 2008 Innovation Award in the storage category. |  |
European IT Excellence Award Winner
February 2008
The first pan-European awards to recognize the crucial role that ISVs and solution providers play in the delivery of real world solutions attracted entries from more than 30 countries. Compellent UK channel partners Fordway Solutions and Jcom took the top two honors in the ‘Data and Information Management’ category. Fordway won for its deployment of a virtualized disaster recovery solution using two Compellent SANs and VMware for gm2 Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company near London. Jcom took second place for a Compellent multi-site DR solution for Barhale Construction. |  |
2007 Product of the Year Finalist
January 20, 2008
Disk and Disk Subsystems
Compellent Technologies, Inc. - Storage Center SAN (version 3.6 with NAS)
This NAS system touts support for Storage Server 2003 along with a rich suite of management features, including virtualization (Virtual Disk Service Manager), single instance storage, automated tiered storage, remote replication, thin provisioning and continuous snapshots. |  |
InfoWorld Names Compellent "Best SAN" of 2008
January 2008
Compellent’s integrated feature set, innovative technologies and industry-leading ease of use won high marks from InfoWorld. In fact, Compellent is the only SAN to win consecutive “Best SAN” awards from this leading publication’s independent lab.
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2007 InfoWorld 100 Award
November 12, 2007
This year's recipients of InfoWorld's highest honor are shining examples of IT projects undertaken by tech leaders committed to pushing their organizations forward. Gaston County undertook a large-scale datacenter modernization project, featuring VMware-based virtualized servers and two Compellent SANs. The datacenter provides disaster recovery for 1,100 users across 35 departments and 25 sites and houses data for 85 Microsoft SQL-based third-party and custom apps. |  |
Gartner Midsize Enterprise Summit 2007 Midmarket Hardware Solutions Innovations Award
September 2007
The Compellent Storage Center is a smart ILM solution that is easy to deploy and makes light work of data migration using tiered Storage and a range of sophisticated data migration technologies. Capacity can be easily expanded as demand increases and it compares particularly well on price with the competition. |  |
50 Emerging Vendors You Should Know
June 4, 2007
Solution providers take note: These up-and-coming vendors have some hot technology and want to work with the channel. The Compellent Storage Center SAN comprises scalable hardware and powerful apps managed with a single interface to speed administrative task, reduce storage costs. |  |
2007 eWEEK excellence award
May 2007
Compellent is a finalist for the 2007 eWEEK Excellence Award in Enterprise Storage Hardware, out of 800+ entries. |  |
Compellent Named to 2006 CRN Emerging Vendor List
November 2006
The Compellent Storage Center is a smart ILM solution that is easy to deploy and makes light work of data migration using tiered Storage and a range of sophisticated data migration technologies. Capacity can be easily expanded as demand increases and it compares particularly well on price with the competition. | |
TechWorld Recommended Award
May 2006
Compellent puts an interesting new twist on ILM as its Storage Center aims to provide a solution that removes all the hassle of data classification. |  |
Storage Magazines Bronze Product of the Year
February 2006
If it's high-end features and flexibility you want, look no further than Compellent Technologies' Storage Center. |  |
Compellents Storage Center Named SAN of the Year by InfoWorld
January 2006
Compellent combines extensive management features, strong performance, great scalability, and superb ease-of-use. |  |
Compellent Receives 2004 Tekne Award
November 2005
"We are delighted that Minnesota's technology community has chosen to recognize Compellent for its success," said Phil Soran, co-founder and CEO, Compellent. "In conjunction with our business partners and their customers, Compellent will continue to deliver innovative technology that changes the way companies purchase and manage storage." |  |
Compellent Named as Tekne Award Finalist
November 2005
"In the five years that we've been naming Tekne Award finalists, the program has become the premier awards for technology innovators and leaders in the state of Minnesota," said Kate Rubin, president of the Minnesota High Tech Association. "The 2004 Tekne Award finalists show that Minnesota continues to and is a great place to do business." | |