On December 13^th Dell announced that it will be acquiring Compellent Technologies for $960 million. This is a valuable investment for Dell since Compellent has been expanding and developing genius state-of-the-art virtual storage architecture. Compellent's innovative approach is simple, cost effective, scalable, and green. The company has grown from zero to a billion dollars in the last 6 years!This growth occurred despite the recession and the company has gained clients in 34 countries. The Dell acquisition places millions of dollars behind an already billion dollar storage company.

Mavenspire has been working with Compellent from the beginning not only as a reseller but an integrator and supporter. We are the premier Compellent partner in the Mid-Atlantic region, and consider Compellent a key partner in our data management and next generation center solutions. We implement Compellent's Storage Center as a best-of-breed product that brings extensive advantages to our customers at an affordable price point. Our technical staff members are highly-trained in Compellent technologies and have considerable experience in Compellent implementations.

We design our Compellent solutions to use combinations of Linux, virtualization technologies, blade servers, and geographically-diverse data replication while implementing the best storage architecture for each individual customer's needs. Every five years Mavenspire determines the best of the best and looks for two types of products. We evaluate solutions for our customers to determine the innovator and the name. Mavenspire holds partners to the highest standards and only works with solutions that are tried and tested with exceptional results. Compellent has always been our list for innovation. The next time we do our evaluations, we may run into a bit of a problem since our partners makes a 'compelling' case for both categories.

Compellent's unique and innovative feature sets bring the following advantages:

• Automatic tiered storage: high-use data is stored on faster (and more expensive) disks, low-use data goes to slower (and cheaper) disks

• Thin provisioning: over-allocate to your heart's content without wasting disk space since space is only used when data is actually written

• Remote replication: enable disaster recovery replication to remote sites, and Thin Replication technology consumes less space and reduces hardware, bandwidth, and management costs.

• Continuous Snapshots: space efficient and unlimited data backups, even for database and email and boot from SAN technology

• Enterprise management: a complete, web-based overview of your system with simple tools -- "the only SAN so sophisticated, it's simple"

Compellent is a leading provider of enterprise-class network storage solutions that are highly scalable, feature rich, and designed to be easy to use and cost effective. Compellent's Storage Center is a Storage Area Network (SAN) that is designed to significantly lower storage and infrastructure capital expenditures, reduce the skill level and number of personnel required to manage information, and enable continuous data availability and storage virtualization.

Need a price quote? Oranizations in specific industries that use Compellent technologies include: education, healthcare, financial, federal, state and local, legal, service providers, and enterprises. To receive even more information on Enterprise Storage and Fluid Data Architecture, or to speak to a Compellent expert, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .