Compellent's Business Momentum Grows as IMG Becomes 1,000th CustomerJuly 30, 2008
Global Sports and Entertainment Leader Chooses Compellent to Enable Virtualization, Business Continuity of its Corporate IT Infrastructure Worldwide
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., July 30, 2008 – Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Arca: CML) today announced that global sports and entertainment company IMG is the 1,000th organization to select the Compellent storage area network (SAN). IMG will use the Compellent SAN as the foundation for its innovative, global virtual data center to help manage rapid data growth, ensure business continuity and reduce storage costs.
“Today we are celebrating that IMG is the 1,000th customer to join our community – forward thinkers that share our vision to grow their businesses through easy-to-manage and easy-to-upgrade enterprise storage,” said Phil Soran, Compellent president and CEO. “Starting with Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business, our first customer in 2004, companies like IMG are part of the growing movement in our industry away from legacy platforms toward more agile, cost-effective and energy-efficient storage architectures.”
After reviewing several legacy and next-generation systems IMG chose Compellent for its ease-of-use, virtualization and disaster recovery capabilities. The company will replace existing storage systems with Compellent SANs in London; Bradenton, Florida; New York and Sydney and anticipates additional worldwide locations. IMG will use Compellent storage to support its global offices with IT services based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and VMware virtualized servers.
“Working with Compellent to create our global virtual data center will allow us to cost-effectively deliver unique services and continuous support to the top corporate, sports and entertainment brands in the world,” said Steve Purewall, global network manager at IMG. “Compellent’s ease- of-use and integration of must-have storage features like automated tiered storage, thin provisioning and thin replication set them apart from the other vendors we were evaluating.”
In addition to IMG, Compellent recently signed on General Information Services, Inc. (GIS), a leader in providing comprehensive background screening solutions for clients like the U.S. Postal Service and McDonald’s; and Australian Aerospace, a wholly owned member company of the EADS group, which also includes Airbus. Compellent is committed to providing the most efficient storage to help customers take the virtual data center to the next level, cutting overall capital and operating costs and reducing energy consumption.
“For a company to hit the 1,000th customer milestone this fast is almost unheard of," said Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst of the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "Compellent's momentum proves that there is always room for a company with truly innovative technologies and equally innovative go-to-market strategies no matter how tough the competitive landscape."
For additional information on IMG’s selection of Compellent and ESG’s analysis of Compellent’s business momentum, visit www.compellent.com/1000.
About IMG
Operating in 30 countries, IMG Sports & Entertainment’s diverse businesses include: consulting services; event ownership and management; fashion events and models representation; licensing; golf course design; and client representation in golf, tennis, broadcasting, speakers, European football, rugby, cricket, motor sports, coaching, Olympic and action sports. IMG Academies are the world's largest, multi-sport training and educational facilities, delivering world-class training experiences to more than 12,000 junior, collegiate, adult, and professional athletes each year.
IMG Entertainment, the entertainment production and distribution division of IMG Worldwide, is one of the world’s largest independent producers of drama, comedy, unscripted, fashion, documentary and children’s content. IMG Entertainment’s production subsidiaries include the award-winning Darlow Smithson Productions, Tiger Aspect Productions and Tigress Productions. IMG Sports Media is the world’s largest independent producer and distributor of sports programming, producing more than 8,000 hours of television, online, mobile and radio sports content across 240 categories of sports.
For more information visit: www.imgworld.com.
About Compellent
Compellent is a leading provider of enterprise-class network storage solutions that are highly scalable, feature-rich and designed to be easy to use and cost effective. Compellent Technologies’ principal offices are located in Eden Prairie, Minn. For more information, please visit: http://www.compellent.com.
Contact Information:
Liem Nguyen
Compellent Technologies
952-294-2851
liem.nguyen@compellent.com
Patty Barry
Matter Communications
978-499-9250 x231
patty@matternow.com
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