Tod Nielson, VMware Hosts Phil Soran, Compellent CEO | VMworld 2010
Channel: SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Date: 27/02/2012

Tod Nielson, COO of VMware joins Phil Soran, CEO of Compellent and representatives of Heineken Netherlands to discuss the importance VMware's relationship with Compellent.

Tod Nielsen, COO of VMWare joins Phil Soran, CEO of Compellent, alongside a representative from Heineken Netherlands, a customer of Compellent, to discuss the importance of VMWares relationship with Compellent at VMWorld 2010.

Tod Nielsen opens up the discussion by emphasizing the profitability of VMWare teaming up with Compellent and, the ecosystem surrounding such partnerships.

After introducing president and CEO, Phil Soran and representatives for one of his customers, Heineken Netherlands, Tod Nielsen encroaches on the subject of Compellent fluid data architecture. Tod draws the connection between the customer he is currently hosting, Heineken, and the beer crawls following the previous days conference.

Phil discusses Compellent's role as a data storage company, using a fluid data architecture infrastructure. Compellent defines itself as an innovator in comparison to primary storage innovation in the last decade; attributing its success to services they provide such as thin provisioning, sub lun, automated tiered storage, tiering disc platters, portable volumes, and things of that nature. Phil Soran calls Compellent a leader in storage as one of the fastest growing companies in their area of expertise, and backing up his claim with the numbers; Compellent has grown about 38% year over year including the previous year, with about 2,100 customers in 34 countries.