Three Bullish Signs for Compellent
December 20, 2007
Compellent continues to execute in its core market segment (commercial to SME).... Compellent’s emergence at a time when opportunities in this market are accelerating, provides a strong growth path through CY’08. |  |
Small Fish, Big Bait
December 19, 2007
An insider's view of Compellent's IPO process and engagement with investment bankers. |  |
Compellent Customers Lower TCO
December 3, 2007
Compellent lowers TCO for midsize enterprises by enabling the virtual data center with the Compellent SAN. |  |
iSCSI SearchStorage Channel Q&A with The451
November 30, 2007
A Q&A with an analyst with the The451 discusses the momentum of iSCSI SANs and benefits of centralized storage for server virtualization environments. |  |
eCos real-time OS makes short work of building a SAN appliance
November 28, 2007
Compellent COO John Guider explains how using open-source technology sped the development of the Compellent SAN with automated tiered storage and the resulting benefits for end-users. |  |
Logistics company cuts costs and power with virtualisation
December 5, 2007
London-based warehousing company, gm2 Logistics, has reduced its data center area and energy consumption by more than 30% by switching to virtualisation technology and Compellent. |  |
Green Matters Virtually Green for gm2
October 29, 2007
Compellent customer gm2 Logistics in a Q&A describes how the company eliminated hardware and lowered energy costs by virtualizing its storage with the Compellent SAN. |  |
InfoWorld Virtualization Report - Podcast
November 19, 2007
Green Grid membership and eco-friendly technology is featured in an InfoWorld Virtualization Report podcast on Oracle OpenWorld. |  |
Dispatches from OpenWorld Growing a Green Data Center
November 2007
TreeHugger blog from Oracle OpenWorld reports Compellent can save save companies up to 93 percent of power consumption and power costs compared to more traditional storage solutions. |  |
Networking Outlook: "Signs Point To Yes"
November 12, 2007
Looking ahead to 2008, Compellent and partner Sanity Solutions discuss the importance of cutting data center power/cooling costs while implementing enterprise DR plans. |  |
Compellent IPO a driving force?
October 12, 2007
SAN specialist Compellent made the public leap earlier this week, offering shares at $13.50 under the symbol CML. From there, shares leaped to $24 at closing, almost double the initial price. |  |
EqualLogic Competitors Target Dells Storage Acquisition
November 12, 2007
Compellent has received "quite a few" inquiries from solution providers looking at alternatives since the Dell/EqualLogic marriage was unveiled. "Unlike with other vendors, partners know exactly where Compellent stands in every business transaction and customer engagement. Our assisted sales model with protracted registrations, great margin opportunities and our clearly defined product development strategies are strong incentives." |  |
Server and Storage Virtualisation Go Hand in Hand
October 1, 2007
For UK-based gm2 Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company headquartered near London, a flexible and reliable storage platform is key to ensuring that about 740 tons of paper products are delivered to more than 1,350 customers on time every day. |  |
Do RAID levels still matter?
November 2007
"While most vendors assign a single tier or RAID level to a volume, Compellent assigns these parameters on a block basis," observes Bob Fine, Compellent's director of product marketing. "Both data classification and data movement are automatically tuned by the array." |  |
First Tennessee Bank Taps Compellent SAN and Virtualization to Simplify Infrastructure
October 30, 2007
Storage consolidation and server virtualization instantly transform First Tennessee's disaster recovery abilities. |  |
Users Leaving Fibre Channel for iSCSI SANs Find Pros Cons
October 30, 2007
Promotional products specialist The Gem Group chooses the Compellent iSCSI SAN for its ease of use, replication, support service and value over EqualLogic and EMC. | |
Is Fibre Channel Dead?
October 25, 2007
Compellent partner Winslow Technology Group and customer GEM Group offer insights on the benefits of iSCSI compared to Fibre Channel. |  |
Colleges Struggle to Keep Up With Storage Demands
October 16, 2007
Compellent customer UNT lowers storage costs to $8,400 per TB migrating from previous SANs to Compellent. To meet e-mail and non-e-mail storage requirements, UNT replaced its Hitachi Data Systems Lightning 9960 and EMC Clariion CX 600 storage systems with four new arrays from Compellent. |  |
Server Virtualization and Storage Part One
October 9, 2007
"You could map virtual LUNs to spindles with EMC, sort of the same way that you can tweak a '57 Chevy to make it run faster, but why would you want to go to all that trouble? Compellent simplified this process, plus it lets us snapshot LUNs and replay them to other LUNs at the recovery center, making failover processes easier to manage." |  |
Offerings Rejuvenate IPO Market
October 8, 2007
The Wall Street Journal previews Compellent's IPO, reporting that Gartner named Compellent the "world's fastest growing disk-storage company" and that the company is separating itself from competitors such as Dell, NetApp and EMC. |  |
The Advantages of Asynchronous Replication
September 17, 2007
Compellent customer Bill Snow, IT director for the construction firm Moss & Associates in Fort Lauderdale, FL, uses Compellent's Storage Center storage systems to take snapshots of and replicate critical data in lieu of backups. |  |
Storage Virtualisation MegaFAQ Part1 General questions
August 28, 2007
Compellent's dynamic block architecture and thin provisioning technologies are highlighted in a primer on storage virtualization. | |
Stor Server Compellent Team
August 28, 2007
"Together, Compellent and STORServer are further driving down costs and easing the administrative burden for data center managers." | |
The Skinny on Thin Provisioning
August 27, 2007
A Forrester Research analyst believesCompellent is one of the most experienced vendors with applications that use thin provisioning and the hurdles associated with deploying it. "The value of that should not be underestimated." |  |
Next Up E Discovery Challenges
August 13, 2007
Amended litigation rules force Compellent's government customers like the South Carolina Office of the Attorney General to archive e-mail, instant messages and other correspondence on the SAN. |  |
Rethink Your Storage Infrastructure to Save Money Simplify Management
July 30, 2007
Associated Bank saves 30 percent overall with its Compellent iSCSI and FC-ready SAN. |  |
Save Costs by Knowing Your Data
July 30, 2007
The South Carolina Office of the Attorney General chose Compellent for Automated Tiered Storage. | |
A Closer Look at Thin Provisioning
July 26, 2007
"We no longer have to guess how much storage we need; we can pre-allocate and when we get up to or close to that amount, we just add more," says Curtis Smith, storage and system administrator at The Ohio State University, a Compellent user. "We can purchase smaller chunks of storage, making it much more economical." | |
Compellent or Netapp SAN
July 24, 2007
Users respond to a VMware user asking for feedback about Compellent vs other storage arrays: "Using VMWARE and Compellents replication SW, we are able to make our instances highly available. Works like a champ! I have been impressed with the reliability and customer service of Compellent...I would stack Compellent up against EMC or Hitachi any day." |  |
Compellent Microsoft Team on New SAN
July 20, 2007
Compellent Technologies introduced a new storage area network that the company claims is the industry's only platform to extend block-level automated tiered storage to file management. |  |
Compellent Unveils Combined NAS SAN Device
July 17, 2007
Storage vendor Compellent has unveiled a new storage appliance that combines network attached storage (NAS) and a storage area network (SAN). |  |
SAN array Vendor Compellent Integrates NAS Capability
July 16, 2007
Compellent announced a new version of its Storage Center SAN array that supports both block- and file-level storage access. | |
Slumberland Improves IT Performance with SAN Technology
July 13, 2007
"Slumberland, which operates 110 stores, has improved the performance and availability of its retail systems with a SAN from Compellent that the retailer has upgraded more than 20 times since 2004." |  |
Whats New in Virtualization
July 6, 2007
Compellent is the only virtualized SAN vendor using innovative Dynamic Capacity and automated tiering to efficiently provision storage. |  |
Midrange SANs Master High end Features
July 5, 2007
InfoWorld gave Compellent the highest marks in a comparison of midrange SANs, and said the "Compellent Storage Center is the best SAN we've tested." | |
Virtual Iron Taps Storage from Compellent
July 4, 2007
Compellent makes a good fit with VI [Virtual Iron] because it can easily accommodate the large number of applications that run on Virtual Iron Infrastructure, and also provides advanced SAN features like automated tiered storage and thin replication. |  |
State Agency Tiers Records Storage with Compellent
June 28, 2007
The Compellent SAN with Automated Tiered Storage enabled the South Carolina Office of the Attorney General to digitalize and manage more than 150 years worth of data, saving more than $40,000 per year and eliminating storage costs. | |
Compellent Virtual Iron Team
June 27, 2007
Compellent and Virtual Iron team to "deliver enterprise-class server and storage virtualization capabilities to the mainstream market." | |
Coping with SATA Growth
June 20, 2007
Compellent's SAN will accommodate large-capacity SATA drives with negligible impact on overall end-user experience by virtualizing the storage system - treating all the disks in the system as one virtual pool - and enabling automated tiered storage. | |
Suit Up Your Storage Network with Business Sense
June 18, 2007
Chief among the benefits of data classification is the ability to allocate data to the appropriate storage tier. Compellent's Data Progression, for example, automatically classifies blocks of data according to criteria such as age and frequency of access, then pushes them to tiers accordingly. | |
What's Steering Emerging Technology
June 11, 2007
"The product is far superior than that from any established player. It's almost unbelievable. I want to give my customers a better product for less money and make a margin. And Compellent has a 100 percent channel model with no direct sales force so I am not competing with them." | |
Compellent Named One of 50 Emerging Vendors You Ought to Know
June 4, 2007
Solution providers take note: Compellent is an up-and-coming vendo that has hot technology and wants to work with the channel. | |
Storage Decisions Chicago Blue chips discuss DR eDiscovery
May 16, 2007
Compellent was the name on everybody’s lips during the expo on the show floor tonight. Users said they had always liked Compellent’s automated tiered storage feature, but it had taken some time to see more customer traction in the market and product maturity for the emerging company. |  |
Data Lifecycle Management DLM Services for SMBs
April 30, 2007
Compellent's single-step ILM solution, via Automated Tiered Storage technology and Data Progression software, helps a single administrator at Whitehall City School District manage data for 3,000 students and 400 faculty members. | |
How Storage Startups Crack into The Giant Market
April 13, 2007
"First Industrial was attracted to Compellent's thin provisioning, data-tiering, replication and boot from SAN capabilities, which enable arrays to automatically fire up servers…Compellent is performing quite well, and the product is very easy to manage." |  |
Any Compellent Users Out There
April 1, 2007
We clarify VMware virtualization support for end-users. | |
Compellent is the Dream SAN
March 30, 2007
We comment on Automatic Tiered Storage to a reader looking for "a disk system that is as easy to use as a NAS but with the performance of block lvl I/O, and that automatically manages the data for performance and tiers." |  |
Boot that Server from the SAN
March 26, 2007
"While most SAN vendors are focused purely on the storage, we're branching out and adding additional support to reduce some of the server management challenges." | |
Compellent Adds Server Management to its Storage Software
March 26, 2007
By allowing provisioning and booting within 15 minutes... companies can also save on maintenance and other costs. | |
Compellent Adds SAN Wizard
March 26, 2007
"I would say it's dramatically better...It's easier, more convenient." | |
Users Quit EMC Over Replication
March 6, 2007
Needing an easy to implement replication solution, Integrated Systems Corp. turned to Compellent Storage Center. | |
Discovering the Virtues of Networked Storage
February 28, 2007
To replace its existing direct attached storage, customer Scott County chose Compellent Storage Center over NetApp and IBM. Storage Center was selected for its replication benefits, support of VMware ESX virtualization technology and ease of management. | |
Use ILM to Store Data Properly and Securely
February 26, 2007
Information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions can help alleviate your storage and security headaches by classifying data appropriately. One shortcut that avoids intra-organizational feuds is to rate the data by how frequently and how recently it has been accessed. |  |
Eight Virtualization Products Where are the rest
January 31, 2007
So Compellent made CRN's list, which is great - they're an array vendor which can interop with some other arrays to deliver the same functionality across heterogeneous storage. | |
8 Key Players in Storage Virtualization
January 29, 2007
Compellent is named as one of the eight players to watch. |  |
Compellent Saves Customers Time and Money with Mirroring Mixed Storage Architecture and Ease of Use
January 2007
It's definitely saving us well into the six figures every year when you factor in staffing, training, maintenance, hardware acquisition, tech support contracts and the fact that we can boot our IP servers from the SAN. | |