by Lawrence E. Aszmann, Chief Technology Officer — May 12, 2008

As we bring C-Drive 2008 to a close we wanted to extend a thank you to all of our business partners, customers, analysts and media folks that took the time to come and participate. Here is a video compilation of take-aways from this year’s event. We look forward to seeing you all back again in 2009!

by Lawrence E. Aszmann, Chief Technology Officer — May 8, 2008

In today’s keynote address, I talked about green data storage and how Compellent is helping our customers implement and support green corporate strategies.  If you're going to do one thing to extend the life of your data center, virtualize your storage first. To learn more about my presentation and the topics I covered, take a look at the video below.

by Lawrence E. Aszmann, Chief Technology Officer — May 7, 2008

What a difference one year makes. I remember at the Technology Summit at C-Drive 2007, about 30 customers came to a half-day session of case studies and a Q&A session moderated by Roger Cox of Gartner. This year, for the first day of our Customer Conference about 100 customers came for keynotes, briefings, breakout sessions on best practices, certification training, and just generally having the chance to connect with each other as part of our community.

Jerome Wendt over at DCIG and Chris Preimesberger at eWeek posted their observations.

Tomorrow, I'm giving the opening keynote about green storage. Gartner's Dave Russell will speak next and then it's going to be more sessions and more technical tutorials.

by Lawrence E. Aszmann, Chief Technology Officer — May 7, 2008

Quite a few customers talk to us about their experiences using the Compellent SAN as the storage core to their server virtualization strategies. Many have been using VMware - like Mike Dufek of Munder Capital Management, Ping Ooi of Ares Management and Roger Bearpark, who came all the way from the London Borough of Hillingdon. Peter Fitch of Rudolph Technologies talks about testing Microsoft Hyper-V.

by Lawrence E. Aszmann, Chief Technology Officer — May 6, 2008

At C-Drive today our channel partners had virtualization on their minds and how customers can eliminate hardware, reduce costs and power consumption. Take a look at these videos.