Tod Nielsen, VMware Hosts Phil Soran, Compellent & Heineken Netherlands | VMworld 2010
At VMworld 2010, VMware and Compellent hosted a press conference highlighting how VMWare COO Tod Nielsen Hosts his customers Compellent CEO Phil Soran and Heineken Netherlands at VMWorld 2010. Tod opens up the press conference with a statistical fact, stating, "For every dollar of license revenue sells our partners or our ecosystem is able to drag with that fifteen dollars of ecosystem revenue and the Compellent folks are a great example of a partnership with VMWare where our solutions work well together and we do some exciting things." Compellent is a data storage company using fluid data architecture and has proven itself to be an innovator in its field over the last decade. Compellent CEO introduces one of his customers, Heineken Netherlands, and its representatives, Mike Robers and Lucian Deconick. Heineken representatives discuss the collaboration between their company and Compellent and what drove them to choose Compellent. After explaining their performance problems in the past, they make it very clear that Compellent was a wise choice in assisting them with their upgrade, virtualization problems. Compellent was also able to reduce IT costs as much as possible, and, helped with their reporting problems. Heineken called Compellent "the solution that fits everything".