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posted on 17 March 2008 18:01

Salt Lake City, Utah, March 17, 2008 – Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Arca: CML) today announced at the Novell BrainShare event that its storage area network (SAN) has been certified with both Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and NetWare 6.5 operating systems, helping make it seamless for Novell administrators to leverage the Compellent SAN to lower storage costs and energy consumption.

The Novell Yes Certified designation applies to both Fibre Channel and iSCSI server connections to the Compellent SAN.

As sustainability initiatives become a growing trend, many storage administrators are looking for greener data center solutions, but not at the sacrifice of performance, administration time or higher cost. When paired with Novell technology, Compellent's advanced storage virtualization, automated tiered storage and thin provisioning can help administrators see significant savings on hardware, energy expenses and CO2 emissions.

The Hesperia Unified School District, with 22,000 students in San Bernadino county, Calif., recently consolidated its data storage and Novell NetWare and GroupWise environment on the Compellent SAN. Hesperia IT administrators soon realized significant performance, cost and green benefits.

"With the combined benefits of Compellent and Novell we expect to eliminate 40 servers, all internal server disks, and 10 air conditioning units while implementing a true disaster recovery solution," said James Lincoln, assistant director of information technology at Hesperia Unified School District. "That’s good for the environment and our bottom line. We're now able to focus IT resources on enriching our students' learning experiences."

Energy conservation in the data center has become increasingly critical. Some analysts estimate nearly half of all data centers will not have sufficient power and cooling capacities in 2008.

"A majority of the energy in the data center is wasted--estimates approach as much as 80 percent," said Larry Aszmann, chief technology officer and co-founder, Compellent. "Reducing disk drive requirements though the combination of storage virtualization, automated tiered storage and thin provisioning can not only help reduce the data center footprint, but also unlock the potential cost savings of the new data center."

Compellent is committed to help administrators gain additional control of their data center through open and flexible design. Compellent's membership in Novell's PartnerNet program ensures customers one-stop support for their virtual data centers.

James Lincoln from Hesperia USD will join Compellent and its channel partner Novacoast to co-present "Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Your Data Storage" at BrainShare at 10 a.m. MT on Tuesday, March 18 in conference room 250D at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. BrainShare attendees can view Compellent technology demonstrations and speak to product managers at Compellent Booth 817. More information is available at http://www.compellent.com/novell and http://www.novell.com/brainshare.

About Compellent
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 Technologies' principal offices are located in Eden Prairie, Minn. For more information, please visit: http://www.compellent.com.

[Formatted by Majid Soltani.]