Dell recently announced intention to spend 960 million dollars to buy supplier Compellent storage systems. It is significantly smaller amount compared to HP just to avoid buying 3Par with Dell in September 2010. Dell and Compellent Technologies has signed an agreement to buy Dell Compellent, according to a press release of the two companies shared. Dell to buy all shares of common Compellent, $ 27.75 per share price in cash, the contract value totaling U.S. $ 960 million. Contract should be adopted by shareholders, after going through Compellent and procedures, it must be completed in early 2011.

Compellent provides solutions for storage virtualization, automation solutions for data management, data warehouse and multi-class share system resources effectively (thin provisioning) for enterprises and data centers materials, including the service provider cloud. Dell said the acquisition enables Compellent expanded product portfolio of the company, allowing companies to provide customers with new solutions to manage the volume of digital information is increasing daily. Buy Compellent is not the first contract that Dell implemented in the array storage systems market. Previously, Dell Power Vault and Equal Logic purchase.

Dell has also set up a joint venture with one of the major players in the market that EMC storage systems. Dell is still planning headquarters in Eden Prairie Compellent, Minnesota, United States and expanding team of technical experts, in quarter 3 / 2010, Dell ranks fifth in the manufacturers storage system, turn the HP (just before Dell in fourth place), EMC, IBM and NetApp. In the third quarter, according to IDC, sales of the manufacturers storage systems reached $ 5.2 billion , up 19% over the same period last year. According to the EMC, in 2010, the amount of data the world will reach 1.2 compared with 0.8 zettabyte in 2009 (1 zettabyte by a thousand billion gigabytes). As of this trend and the change in the way business backup and data recovery, analysts believe storage systems market will continue to grow.