Davenport Group, our partners, and our customers are making news and winning awards.


Okay, so it seems like we've already been over this once. But that was in the other dimension. While pondering the whole space-time continuum, take a look a the recent articles written about Davenport Group and our clients.




Compellent SAN Wins "Best of VMWorld 2008" Award as the Ideal Storage Platform for the Virtual Data Center

Compellent Awarded Gold "Best of VMworld 2008" in "Hardware for Virtualization" Category from SearchServerVirtualization.com

Eden Prarie, Minn. (September 19, 2008) - Compellent Technologies Inc. By combining Compellent and VMWare enterprise data center managers experience reduced costs, automated disaster recovery and greener facilities. As result Compellent receives the Gold "Best of VMWorld 2008" Award in the "Hardware for Vitualization" category.

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Davenport Group CEO, Sonia St. Charles, named a "Woman to Watch" by Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal.

Women in Business

Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal. (July 14, 2008) - Sonia St. Charles
"Our business is...helping our customers gain control over their data." - Sonia St. Charles

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Compellent was named Microsoft's Partner of the Year for the Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Storage Solutions category, over finalists HP and Net App.

Microsoft Names Compellent Partner of the Year

Eden Prairie, Minn.  (June 16, 2008) – Compellent Technologies Inc. Microsoft recognized the Compellent SAN for demonstrating significant customer impact, originality, effective time to market, deployment of advanced features, and the ability to optimize use of Microsoft technologies to meet business needs. Compellent beat out HP and NetApp for the honor.  

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Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year-Upper Midwest Region

Compellent Founders Win Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Eden Prairie, Minn. (June 2008) – Compellent Technologies Inc.The Entrepreneur Of The Year awards recognize the men and women who excel at growing and sustaining market-leading businesses.  Compellent's three co-founders, Larry Aszmann, John Guiduer, and Phil Soran, were recently honored in the Emerging category at the Upper Midwest regional Program.

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Compellent earns quality award for Top Midrange Storage Array from Storage Magazine and Diogenes Labs.

Compellent Shakes Up the Midrange Array Competition
Storage – April 14, 2008 – by Rich Castagna and Phil Goodwin

"According to the survey, 100 percent of Compellent customers would purchase their systems again. Commenting on Compellent’s Copilot support services, Community Health Plan IT Operations Manager Cary Dahl said, “Whether you call at 2 a.m. or 2 p.m., they’ve been very responsive.” Compellent beat out midrange storage systems from 14 other vendors including Dell/EqualLogic, Dell/EMC, EMC, HP, Hitachi, IBM, NetApp, and Sun. "




Davenport Group customer, Gaston County, has been named a finalist in the "Storage Reliability and Data Recovery" category of the Storage Networking World Best Practices Award Show.

2008 Storage Networking World Best Practices Awards Program 

Gaston County, North Carolina, was chosen as finalists for the "Best Practices in Storage" awards, sponsored by Storage Networking World (SNW) in conjunction with Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). It was a finalist for the "Storage Reliability and Data Recovery" category for implementation strategies and programs that ensure highly available information and data access."

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Davenport Group client Gaston County, the eighth largest county in North Carolina, is named to the InfoWorld 100.

County Government Pairs Compellent SAN and VMware to Modernize Data Center and Implement Instant Disaster Recovery

Eden Prairie, Minn. (Nov. 12, 2007) — Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Arca: CML) today announced its customer Gaston County, the eighth largest county in North Carolina, has been named to the InfoWorld 100, an annual award that honors IT projects that demonstrate the most creative use of cutting-edge technologies to further their business goals. 

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Davenport Group Joins PTI as Latest Corporate Partner

Washington, D.C. (November 9, 2007) – Public Technology Institute (PTI) announced today that Davenport Group, a leading provider of flexible, feature-rich data storage solutions, has joined PTI as a Corporate Partner.

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