Compellent is an emerging company that develops automated tiered storage solutions.

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Compellent is a publicly traded company (CML Nasdaq) founded in the early 2002 by three storage industry fixtures: Phil Soran, CEO, Larry Aszmann (CTO) and John Guider. The firm has a revenue run rate of around $160M annually. Compellent’s flaship offering is software called Storage Center and its value prop is to bring enterprise class storage to small and mid-sized businesses, focusing on simplicity and low cost. The company’s philosophy has always been to eliminate the need to have specialized storage managers. All of Compellent’s major features are automated to reduce the cost of storage provisioning and management. Users and resellers love Compellent products because they are easy to support.