Dell acquires Compellent for £820 million

The computer maker has bought the virtualised storage company after losing out in bidding war for 3PAR.

The deal is valued at $820 million and should help Dell reduce storage costs and simplify the management of IT infrastructure.

Minnesota-based Compellent's flagship product is Storage Centre, a storage area network (SAN) system that includes automated data management features such as storage tiering and thin provisioning.

"Compellent’s design focus on intelligently managing data to increase efficiency, agility and resiliency is consistent with Dell’s approach of building solutions that can quickly scale to meet the most demanding enterprise environment," commented Brad Anderson, senior vice president of Dell's enterprise product group.