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| February 25, 2004 | Byte & Switch |
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| Compellent Launches Storage Center |
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| Portfolio Company: Compellent Technologies (NYSE: CML) |
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Compellent Technologies, a provider of modular, affordable storage solutions distributed exclusively through a select national network of business partners, today announced the launch of Storage CenterTM — an integrated, modular storage area network (SAN) that automates the allocation, utilization, progression and recovery of data through Compellent's Dynamic Block ArchitectureTM.
Compellent's customers and business partners joined together on Feb. 25, 2004 at the Minnesota History Center to officially launch Storage Center and praise the benefits of a storage solution that is already proven and deployed by dozens of customers.
"What separates Compellent from other solutions is the functionality that accompanies the SAN. The software provides advanced capabilities that just aren't available with the other solutions." — Don Himsl, CNS, Customer
"Compellent allows us to purchase storage as we need it. With IT budgets the way they are, you don't want to spend money on something you don't need." — Mark Dinsmore, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP, Customer
"With Compellent — it's great! We now have a system that's easily upgradeable. I don't find myself in a position where I have to spend my weekends doing backups and rebuilding servers. Disk is added within minutes and the expandability is phenomenal." — Andrew Mayberry, HighJump Software, a 3M company, Customer
"It was a happy day for me to have tangible figures I could email to my technology committee and CFO saying, 'We spent this money on a SAN and look what we already saved as a result of that.'" — Steve Remington, Zelle Hofmann, Customer
"Compellent's replay feature had us back up and running in a couple of hours after a recent failure — previously we would have been down for several days. It was incredible." — Carla Hedding, Wolf Etter, Customer
"What works for us is that our friends at Compellent will not be competing against us in the marketplace. They have no direct sales force and no competing professional services." — Paul Clifford, The Davenport Group, Business Partner
"A lot of our clients have solutions that have completely locked them in. Compellent's approach gives users control of their systems and enables them to have a manageable system at a reasonable price." — David Payne, Xcedex, Business Partner
"Customers' feedback has been great — they wonder why someone hasn't done this before because it is so simple and straightforward." — John Dusek, Convergent Storage Solutions, Business Partner
Compellent Technologies Inc.
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