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Hot Stocks You're Buying Now

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:08:03 -0500

"Coal may be cool, but this week there's cash in caching. Companies such as Rule Breakers recommendation Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM) and Compellent Technologies (NYSE: CML) are up 17.2% as a group over the past 30 days."

A 1-in-100 Investor

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:08:01 -0500

The company IPO was $13.50/share, and that was before it started making money. The product is still highly regarded, and dealing with the company directly for tech support is awesome compared to the treatment offered by EMC.

Compellent Sure Knows How to Throw a Customer/Partner Event

Tue, 15 May 2012 10:37:53 -0500

Compellent kicks off its largest-yet annual customer and partner event, C-Drive 2009. Customers, partners, vendors and industry analysts convene in Minneapolis to attend a mix of demos, training sessions, and feature speaker events.

Dell Shows Off Storage Programme Enhancements

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:07:58 -0500

Dell also used the Forum to look back on a successful 2011, during which it claims its storage business registered 60,000 deals and booked sales of €2bn (£1.65bn) in Europe, up 27% year-on-year.

How will Gordon College pay for tech? Run an ISP

Tue, 08 May 2012 16:53:03 -0500

Compellent customer Gordon College has found a creative way to cover ever-increasing technology costs – without letting it increase students’ tuition. The 1,600-student college in rural Wenham, Mass. plans to provide Internet service to the regional community leveraging the Compellent SAN and use the revenue to subsidize technology costs.

eCos real-time OS makes short work of building a SAN appliance

Tue, 08 May 2012 16:28:17 -0500

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.

Compellent SAN Wins InfoWorld 2010 Technology of the Year Award

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:10:53 -0500

Compellent SAN Wins InfoWorld 2010 Technology of the Year Award

Network World Best of the Tests 2010

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:10:39 -0500

"The product offers a compelling mix of high performance, great ease of use and wide feature set, at a price that isn't over the top."

Quality Awards V: Compellent Regains Top Midrange Arrays Spot

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:10:15 -0500

Compellent's win was earned with a consistent performance, garnering the top scores in all five of our rating categories — sales-force competence, initial product quality, product features, product reliability and technical support.

Dell Compellent Storage Center Wins Best of Show at Interop Tokyo 2011

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:10:02 -0500

Dell Compellent receives the Grand Prix Award in the solutions and services division for cloud and virtualization, and the Special Award in the products division for servers and storage.

Dell Compellent wins “Best Storage Product” at UK Techworld Awards

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:09:49 -0500

Storage Center 5.4 wins Best Storage Product for flexibility and scalability.

Dell Storage recently named “Champion” in Info-Tech report

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:09:37 -0500

Dell Storage recently named “Champion” in Info-Tech report

Storage Center Command Set Makes Automation a Snap!

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:55:09 -0500

Atlanta Falcons Storage Solution Hits the Ground Running

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:18:24 -0500

The Data Storage ‘Perfect Storm’

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:18:23 -0500

Compellent customers speak about Australian storage market

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:34:54 -0500

"Every storage company out there says the same thing... [but] we say 'talk to our customers'," said Brian Bell, Compellent's vice president of worldwide sales.

Compellent Australian expansion gains momentum

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:34:39 -0500

Storage vendor, Compellent has revealed its plans for bringing Fluid Data storage to the wider Australian market as it establishes itself in the region.

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Tue, 08 May 2012 12:23:35 -0500

Dell Introduces New Storage Appliances for Small, Medium-Sized Businesses

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:20:18 -0500

“With Dell's new primary, archive and backup storage solutions, the Dell Fluid Data architecture delivers the storage intelligence customers need to deal with a sea of constant IT change without driving up costs, wasting time or continually replacing infrastructure,” said Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of Dell storage.

Hillingdon gets storage savvy

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:14:20 -0500

As little as five years ago, Hillingdon, the London Borough home to Heathrow Airport, suffered from a IT system that was overburdened and underprepared for growing data storage needs. In switching to Compellent, Hillingdon can manage data increasing at a rate of 100 per cent each year and makes use of virtualization, thin provisioning and automated tiered storage. With Compellent, Roger Bearpark, the council’s IT head, explained, "Clever storage doesn't have to be technically difficult."

Compellent Unveils Combined NAS SAN Device

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:12:30 -0500

Storage vendor Compellent has unveiled a new storage appliance that combines network attached storage (NAS) and a storage area network (SAN).

Compellent Storage Center

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:12:23 -0500

"Compellent's Storage Center offers an impressive range of unique data classification features with combined support for IP and FC SANs."

Compellent automates solid state storage tiering

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:12:17 -0500

Compellent said that its automated tiered storage, called Data Progression, not only reduces the number of SSD’s required but does so with the “highest levels of performance for mission-critical applications”. Its hardware architecture also allows the customer to plug in the SSD’s to their current fibre channel enclosures without requiring a “rip and replace upgrade” or any downtime.

Compellent Launches 'Fluid Data' in Australia

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:10:20 -0500

Storage area network (SAN) vendor Compellent has launched its first Australian office, announcing plans to more aggressively pursue local clientele.

Compellent Picks STEC Solid State Drives

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:05:56 -0500

Users and analysts say automated data migration will play a major role in helping SSD gain traction in enterprise storage. Compellent appears to have an advantage here.

Compellent Hits a Bump in the Road

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:05:48 -0500

Storage vendors were cautiously optimistic over signs of a spending uptick in late 2009, but at least one has stumbled out of the gate in 2010.

Tweaking the Model at C-Drive

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:58:48 -0500

Greater interest from Europe and the news that Compellent is increasing its investment in R&D were welcome themes at its recent event, promising that it can more quickly innovate and deliver on new features for the data centre.

Compellent Wins Third Consecutive “Storage Area Network of the Year” Award

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:54:18 -0500

Compellent Technologies wins the InfoWorld 2010 Technology of the Year award for its storage area network (SAN), making this the third consecutive time the product has been acknowledged as a leader in the storage industry.

Virtual Iron Taps Storage from Compellent

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:52:37 -0500

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.

NAS: Spreading Wings of Storage

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:46:35 -0500

S. Sridhar, Director of Marketing at for Dell India, is quoted in this article analyzing the market situation with leading NAS vendors. “With powerful, unified storage from Dell, enterprises can now consolidate file and block-based data onto a single, shared storage system that's affordable, easy to deploy, and straightforward to manage. Dell Unified Storage solutions enable customers to drive down costs, meet demanding service levels and simplify management with an easy-to-use, multi-protocol solution that supports CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC and FCoE.”

Thin Provisioning's Fat Chance During the Credit Crunch

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:42:47 -0500

Compellent’s Dynamic Capacity feature automates the process of dealing with “allocated but unused disk space” - thereby maximizing the space saving benefits of thin provisioning and eliminating the need to manually manage newly freed blocks of storage from recently deleted files.

Dell Storage Systems – Big Hat, Good Cattle

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:40:50 -0500

Overall it [Dell] has a convincing story, having created enough consistency between its acquired assets to begin to demonstrate a common architecture and some genuine ability to reduce its customers’ storage costs through virtualisation and in-built de-duplication and compression.

Taking the Complexity Out of Managing Data Storage

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:38:20 -0500

Michael Vizard of IT Business Edge touches on the acquisitions Dell has made, its Fluid Data architecture and how the automation of data movement has the potential for improving information management across organizations of all sizes. “In terms of storage, Dell has come a long way since serving as a reseller of EMC products. There’s obviously no shortage of competition in the storage space. But Dell’s Fluid Data architecture at least shows the company does understand the magnitude the challenge ahead.”

Compellent Pitches New Storage System As Money Saver

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:34:46 -0500

If Ben Franklin were alive he might revise his famous maxim to say: In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes ... and data storage.

Late-2007 IPO Shapes Giant Cuplike Base

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:34:40 -0500

Since its November 2008 low, Compellent has risen rather steadily. In fact, you could read its entire history as one gigantic cup-with-handle base.

Virtual Storage Sheds Help Companies Store Vast Amounts Of Data

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:34:25 -0500

Compelling Upgrades in Storage Center 4.0

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:11:22 -0500

Compellent’s newest release – Storage Center 4.0 – takes the guesswork out of both storage planning and budgeting. "We take a new approach when it comes to managing stored data, as we've provided a way to do it inside the volume so that users don't have to live with the guess they took in resource allocation,” said Bob Fine, Compellent's product marketing manager, “We're focused on providing a strong total cost of ownership and bringing reductions both in operational areas and in capital expenses when it comes to managing storage.”

Boot that Server from the SAN

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:11:17 -0500

"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."

VMware Ecosystem Gets Busy

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:11:16 -0500

“Compellent Storage Center has completed the VMware Hardware Certification Program testing criteria for use with VMware vSphere and is now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide to ensure supportability, “says Steve Anderson, Compellent’s director of alliance marketing.

How Storage Startups Crack into The Giant Market

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:11:11 -0500

"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."

On the fast track to tiered storage

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:03:38 -0500

InfoWorld, testing the Compellent Storage Center with the latest Fast Track feature, commends the system’s automation and innovation. “Data Progression is one of the most effective tiered storage management solutions I have seen…it's an easy, reliable way to reduce the clutter on your primary storage devices while making sure business access is not slowed down in the process.”

Midrange SAN Masters High End Features

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:03:37 -0500

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."

Test Center: SANs tuned for virtualization pack nice surprises

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:03:35 -0500

InfoWorld Ranks Compellent No. 1 over HP in review of SANs ideal for server virtualization
InfoWorld ranks Compellent no. 1 in a review of storage arrays optimized for virtualization – Compellent takes top honors in review focused on virtualization interoperability, management, performance, scalability, reliability, and value.

Storage Vendors Move Beyond Blocks And LUNs

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:03:34 -0500

Compellent Storage Center is awarded Best SAN for it's "extensive management, strong performance and scalability, and great ease-of-use.

On the fast track to tiered storage

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:03:22 -0500

GM2 Logistics marries SANs and sustainability

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:03:08 -0500

Compellent user and InfoWorld Green 15 honoree gm2 Logistics has confronted the challenge of greening its IT environment. “We always look for a green aspect,” explains John Boyd, IT manager at gm2. “We're not just green IT. We try to be a green company." Pairing two Compellent SANs with VMware, gm2 has consolidated 36 servers to just six blades and retired between 200 and 250 PCs.

Compellent Storage Center Review

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:02:56 -0500

Compellent Storage Center is more mature than the Magnitude 3D 3000c System and shows it.

Midrange SANs Master High end Features

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:02:42 -0500

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."

Suit Up Your Storage Network with Business Sense

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:02:09 -0500

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.

Test Center: SANs Tuned for Virtualization Pack Nice Surprises

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:01:46 -0500