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Compellent - Taking On The Enterprise Challenge: Page 3 of 3

On Nov. 22, Compellent announced the newest release of StorageCenter version 5.4, new Live Volume software, new Enterprise Manager multisite tool capabilities, and next-generation hardware that is faster, stores more data and connects to FCoE and 10GbE iSCSI. Back in October, I wrote that Compellent was rising to the enterprise challenge. With this announcement, it's clear to me that Compellent is taking on the enterprise challenge and may be swinging the acquisition pendulum in their direction.
Tom Trainer
December 09, 2010

I didn't see it mentioned in the announcement from Compellent, but it is worth noting that as a part of its overall storage solution, the company now resells three Cisco connectivity products. These include the MDS 9148 8Gb Fibre Channel switch, 5010 and 5020 iSCSI and FCoE switches, and the 95XX Fibre Channel Directors

In summary, as Compellent takes carefully measured steps to both leap and walk into enterprise opportunities, I believe both enterprise customers and larger systems providers in need of more robust storage solutions are sitting up and taking notice. Will these new advancements move the company forward? In my opinion, there is no doubt that the answer is yes. How far forward remains to be seen, but Compellent is making all the right moves.

(As of the writing of this blog, neither Compellent, Cisco, Dell nor EMC were clients of Tom Trainer, or Analytico)

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