The acquisition could also be the last nail in the coffin that could bury the special reseller relationship between EMC, which Compellent has identified as its chief storage rival, and Dell ...

Dell further strained its EMC relationship with its late 2010 move to acquire Compellent, a storage vendor which had long identified EMC as its primary competitor. The final break between the two ...

Meanwhile, the senior vice president of Dell's enterprise storage group, Brad Anderson, has hit out at suggestions that joining forces with Compellent will sour its relations with storage behemoth EMC ...