Compellent Secures More Than 20 Additional Customers Since Recent Storage Center Product Launch

Customer demand and Compellent's expanding national network of business partners drive rapid growth

Minneapolis, June 2, 2004 — Compellent Technologies, a provider of modular, affordable storage solutions distributed exclusively through a select national network of business partners, today announced it has secured more than 20 additional customers since the recent launch of its Storage Center^TM product.

Storage Center is an integrated, modular storage area network (SAN) that automates the allocation, utilization, progression and recovery of data through Compellent's Dynamic Block Architecture^TM. Compellent launched Storage Center with the help of business partners and a group of initial customers on Feb. 26, 2004, and since then, has experienced significant demand from new customers, as well as add-on purchases from current customers.

Fast growth has been driven by Compellent's ever-expanding network of business partners throughout the U.S. and Canada.

What New Customers and Partners Are Saying

"Compellent has greatly simplified our backup processes, allowing us to eliminate multiple tape-based systems. We now have one quick and reliable solution for backup and recovery."
— Jose Bustamante, AEA Federal Credit Union, Customer, Yuma, Ariz.

"Compellent helps to take the risk out of storage purchases by allowing us to purchase only what we need, when we need it. For a recent project, we were able to cut our storage expenditure in half."
— Steve Armand, MRO Software, Customer, Boston, Mass.

"We are adding more than half a terabyte of capacity every quarter. Compellent provides us the flexibility to buy the right type of storage for our needs now and in the future. Compellent has become our platform of choice."
— Roy Davis, Critical Technologies, Customer, Dallas, Texas

"Compellent understands customers' frustrations — poor utilization, slow unreliable data recovery and dead end growth paths. When customers hear how Storage Center eliminates those limitations — and see the system in action for themselves — they start believing."
— Mike Brazelton, Aegis Consulting, Business Partner, Arlington, Texas

"The strong demand for Storage Center within a short period of time validates the product's unique capabilities and indicates Compellent's growth potential within the storage market," said Phil Soran, president and chief executive officer of Compellent. "Our unique strategies of delivering Storage Center exclusively though business partners and working collaboratively with the Compellent Customer Council to ensure product development is in line with customer needs will continue to drive our long term success."

Organizations spanning virtually every industry segment — including health care, financial services, consumer products, legal, technology services, logistics and education — now use Storage Center to cut storage expenditures in half, recover from data hazards in minutes and streamline storage administration.

About Compellent's Storage Center
Compellent's modular offering, Storage Center, builds on its Dynamic Block Architecture^TM to deliver a scalable, open-systems hardware platform allowing businesses to mix and match any number of drives, controllers and enclosures; an integrated foundation of core storage capabilities providing functionality previously available only in high-end systems; a powerful suite of software applications optimizing utilization, automating replication and speeding data recovery; and a single, intuitive, centralized management interface streamlining all storage administration.

About Compellent
Compellent delivers affordable, modular storage solutions exclusively through business partners that provide companies of all sizes enterprise-level storage capabilities without big system costs or complexities. Designed by network storage and virtualization pioneers, Compellent enables any business to cut storage expenditures in half, recover from data hazards within minutes, scale to any capacity across any technology and easily manage its storage without adding staff. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn., Compellent has raised more than $23 million in financing from leading investors including Cargill Ventures, Crescendo Ventures and El Dorado Ventures. For more information, visit www.compellent.com.

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