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 Headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota | |
| Company type | Public[1] |
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| Nasdaq: CML[1] | |
| Industry | Data storage devices |
| Founded | 2002; 24 years ago (2002) |
| Founder | Larry Aszmann John Guider Phil Soran |
| Defunct | February 22, 2011 (2011-02-22) |
| Fate | Acquired byDell |
| Successor | Dell Compellent |
| Headquarters | 7625 Smetana Lane ,Eden Prairie, Minnesota |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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| Products | Storage Center, Storage Center with NAS |
| Revenue |  $ 125.3 million(2009) |
Number of employees | 565(Start of 2011) |
| Parent | Dell Technologies |
| Website | www |
Compellent Technologies, Inc., was an American manufacturer of enterprisecomputer data storage systems that provided block-level storage resources to small and medium sized IT infrastructures. The company was founded in 2002 and headquartered inEden Prairie, Minnesota. Compellent's flagship product, Storage Center, is astorage area network (SAN) system that combines a standards-based hardware platform and a suite of virtualized storage management applications, includingautomated tiered storage through a proprietary process called "DataProgression",thin provisioning andreplication. The company developed software and products aimed at mid-size enterprises and sold through a channel network of independent providers and resellers.[2]Dell acquired the company in February 2011, after which it was briefly a subsidiary known asDell Compellent.
Compellent Technologies was founded in 2002 by Phil Soran, John Guider, and Larry Aszmann. The three had network storage andvirtualization backgrounds.
The company had its initial public offering on October 15, 2007, became profitable for the first time in Q3 2008 and was profitable in consecutive quarters since. On February 11, 2010, it announced Q4 2009 revenues had increased 35 percent over Q4 2008, the company’s 17th consecutive quarter of revenue growth, with full year revenue of $125.3 million.[3]
On December 13, 2010, Compellent announced it agreed to be acquired byDell for approximately $960 million. The purchase was completed in February 2011 and the product line sold as Dell Compellent.[4]
In the following years, Dell slowly phased out the Compellent brand name, naming the products simply Dell SCxxxx (for example, Dell SC9000).
Compellent’sstorage area network (SAN) system, called "Storage Center", combines several virtualized storage-management applications with hardware. The product tracksmetadata, information about each block of data stored on the Compellent system, including the date and time written, frequency of access, associated volume, type of disk drive used, type of data stored and RAID level.[5] Large amounts of data are stored and managed on a granular level and assigned automatically to high-performance drives or large-capacity drives. Compellent said this method of data management can lower hardware, power and cooling costs."[6]
The base configuration of Storage Center includes a dual, redundantdisk array controller, disk enclosure, disk drives, connectivity hardware, and software modules.
For high availability purposes, I/O ports and power supplies are also redundant.
The operating system, called SCOS (Storage Center Operating System), is regularly updated. Software modules include:
Compellent’s hardware supports different server/host interfaces (such asFibre Channel andiSCSI) and drive technologies (such assolid state drives, Fibre Channel,Serial Attached SCSI andSATA disk drives). To expand the hardware, users add new drives orI/O cards to the existing system.
Compellent provides technical support and professionalmanaged services through its Copilot team, housed at its Minnesota headquarters. Copilot technical support and service representatives provide maintenance, managed services, consultative services and training. SupportAssist (formerly: Phone Home) is an automated problem-detection service that remotely monitors each customer’s SAN and provides proactive alerting on issues.
The company headquarters occupies the first commercial facility in Minnesota's Twin Cities region to receive aLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) designation, now Gold-certified, from theUnited States Green Building Council.[7] Compellent’s Eden Prairie campus has sustainable design elements such as waterless urinals and drip irrigation systems for landscaping that cut water consumption by 40 percent, energy-efficient HVAC equipment with carbon dioxide monitors, and low emission paints and adhesives. In addition, 75 percent of the building’s construction waste was recycled.[8]
In 2009, Computerworld magazine honored Compellent as a top green IT vendor for its corporate and technology efforts to reduce power consumption and lower carbon emissions.[9]