• 2002

Company Description

Originally named Compellent Technologies, Inc (NYSE: CML), founded in 2002, is a global provider of enterprise storage systems that gained recognition for automating data movement at the block level. The company is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA. Compellent's chief product, Storage Center, is a storage area network (SAN) system that combines a standards-based hardware platform and a suite of virtualized storage management applications, including automated tiered storage, thin provisioning and replication. The company developed its Storage Center software and hardware solution aimed at mid-size enterprises and sells Storage Center through an all-channel network of independent solution providers and resellers. It became part of Dell in February 2011.