Compellent’s Opinion on New EMC CLARiiON CX4

Compellent Technologies, Inc. released the following statements today regarding EMC’s announcement of its refresh of the Clariion CX data storage arrays.

Phil Soran, president and CEO of Compellent, said: "It’s good for the market that large competitors are finally reacting to customers’ storage needs. As a more agile company, Compellent was able to bring features like thin provisioning to customers in 2004; our innovation and flexibility has been the engine of our success, bringing us years of double-digit growth. We see this product news as affirmation of our vision of the future of storage architecture – and we will continue to lead the way in making storage easier, less costly and more power efficient."

In July Compellent announced that its 1,000th customer, IMG, the global sports and entertainment company, selected the Compellent storage area network as part of the growing movement in the industry away from legacy platforms toward more nimble, cost-effective and energy-efficient storage architectures.

"Today more than 1,000 customers have turned to Compellent for our ease of use, lower TCO, and power savings benefits,” noted Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing at Compellent. “Even better, our customers don’t have to consider a rip and replace storage strategy when their business and data grow, as they do with products like the ones being announced.”

“Compellent started with a blueprint for the next-generation of enterprise storage, and we continue to deliver the smartest storage for virtual data centers by integrating into one solution essential features like automated tiered storage, thin provisioning, unlimited continuous snapshots and thin replication," Kornfeld concluded.