Compellent Releases Statement

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Arca: CML)released the following statements today regarding Microsoft's announcement of itsrelease candidate of Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization software availablewith Windows Server 2008.

Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing for Compellent, said:

"Microsoft is taking an important step in delivering on its virtualization visionand strategy. Through the virtualization of both servers and storage, organizationsof any size can radically lower infrastructure costs while reducing their carbon andenergy footprint. Microsoft's release candidate of Hyper-V will make it easier formany companies to plan and achieve a virtualized data center.

As an enterprise storage vendor, Compellent is excited to have taken part in thereal-world testing of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V in partnership with Microsoft,our channel partners and our end users. What we found during testing is that byusing Compellent's virtualized storage as the foundation for a Microsoft servervirtualization solution, organizations can speed deployment, ease operationalmanagement and enable rapid recovery from data disasters--benefits that ourcustomers believe are critical as they map their data centers for the future."

Compellent Technologies Inc.