Compellent Issues Statement

Compellent Technologies, Inc. released the following
statements today regarding Microsoft’s announcement of its release
candidate of Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization software
available with Windows Server 2008.

Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing for Compellent, said: "Microsoft is taking an important step in delivering on its
virtualization vision and strategy. Through the virtualization of both
servers and storage, organizations of any size can radically lower
infrastructure costs while reducing their carbon and energy footprint.
Microsoft’s release candidate of Hyper-V will make it easier for many
companies to plan and achieve a virtualized data center. As an enterprise storage vendor, Compellent is excited to have taken
part in the real-world testing of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V in
partnership with Microsoft, our channel partners and our end users.
What we found during testing is that by using Compellent’s virtualized
storage as the foundation for a Microsoft server virtualization
solution, organizations can speed deployment, ease operational
management and enable rapid recovery from data disasters–benefits that
our customers believe are critical as they map their data centers for
the future."

Commenting on Compellent’s teaming with Microsoft on virtual
solutions, Mike Schutz, director of product management for Microsoft,
said: "The data growth and energy restrictions of today’s data centers
require a totally new view of TCO that encompasses end-to-end
virtualization from the desktop to the data center. Microsoft is
working closely with partners like Compellent to deliver joint
solutions that can reduce operating costs by increasing hardware
utilization, optimizing infrastructure and improving availability.
Compellent’s virtual storage area network combined with Microsoft’s
Hyper-V creates a synergy that can help end users easily deploy a
virtual data center."

Compellent Technologies, Inc.