 I don't know, you got the schedule? So, let's talk about what's coming up today and then Phil, you and I will talk a little bit more about your business, okay? All right, so big day today. Phil and I are going to talk a little bit about the compelence business and then we have a cloud panel that John Furrier is going to be running with a number of folks from Silicon Valley and then we have the founder of Spring Source, Rod Johnson, they've done some really interesting things at VMware building out their stack, kind of like Microsoft did a couple of decades ago so we're going to talk to Rod about that. Then we have David Flynn from Fusion IO, really interesting startup, we were talking about Flash before. We talked about big data, we've got Bill Cook from Green Plum coming on and then the CIO of Foster Pepper, Brian Bosserman. And then we got a cloud service provider segment with Kent Langley and then that leads into your buddy Rich Napolitano from EMC, you know Rich, fierce competitors. So it's downhill throughout the day, right? And then in midday we got Tim Garzi, the CIO of California Resource Agency. So that's going to take us through the morning. Phil, I want to talk about compelence. You really have done an amazing job. Entrepreneur, started a number of companies and of all places, the middle part of the country. You don't think about the Minneapolis area being storage central, but it actually historically has been, you know, with CDC and impromise and so there's a lot of talent out there, isn't there? Yeah, I actually think it's a competitive advantage. There's a big competitive advantage to be not in Minneapolis. Couple of things there, you had in the old mainframe days, you had IBM and the Bunch. All but one of the Bunch was headquartered in Minneapolis. There was a lot of innovation that happened there. Now one that was real big was CDC, control data and their roots, they would actually fund entrepreneurial companies within the company. And so I'm not sure the venture community got as well established in Minneapolis, but the engineering community sure did. And we've been able to take advantage of that. The quality of talent we have, they're more loyal, they're affordable, you know, the engineers we've started with they're all still there at compelent. They don't hop around like they might not here in the valley. And it's the quality that they come out with this enterprise class architectures is just really, really differentiated for them. So you got a lot of the storage comes out there. You got Seagate's high-end enterprise drive division, all that stuff out there, the old Veritas operations, C&T, the old channel extension company, network systems, there's just a lot of ecosystem for storage talent. Yeah, you know, it's interesting you say that because I'm from New England and you remember the days of DECK and WANG and Prime and DG and then we had some tough times back there but now entrepreneurs like yourself have brought in those teams and they're really sharp people, they're loyal and they've just created a lot of value for customers, for investors. So maybe take us back to the early days of compelent. I know Larry Asman a little bit, great respect for him and his team. Talk about the vision that you guys had when you launched the company because you've really seen it through and I want the listeners to understand where you've come from. Well it's, there's three of us that founded the company. So myself, Larry Asman, as you mentioned John Geider who's our chief operating officer and also a very visionary guy in the storage space here and if you look at our backgrounds there's a lot of storage DNA there. I go back to the IBM, I was a storage specialist. They've found other companies, I think I counted, they've done 11 storage subsystems in their career and all of them have been successful. They kind of did the first blade server back in the late 80s, early 90s so there's just a lot of innovation that's come out of John and Larry's brain and I get to take the ride with them here but here's what we kind of saw in 2002 a lot of things were happening in the world that kind of influenced us. We had retired for a little bit and started meeting in my basement again in Minneapolis it's too cold to start a company in the garage so you have to go to the basement in Minneapolis you get frozen to death otherwise. But so we're down in the basement and 9-11 it happened, I don't know if you remember the Northeast power outage, the brownouts, that kind of stuff was happening. For some reason it seemed like there's a lot of weather events that were happening then too. Enron was starting to happen, we had this data retention was getting bigger and what we saw was this kind of an opportunity that a lot of high end functionality was not available to masses of companies who was too expensive, hard to implement in some ways maybe unaffordable. So what we said is let's try to design a system that had twice the functionality of any system on the market, high end or low end or whatever but do it in a manner that it's 10 times easier to use and then make it so it's affordable for the first time, centralized storage buyer and stuff. And I think we hit the ball out of the park, frankly on there and I think some of the core things we focused on were efficiency, we just saw with things like how storage is provisioned, it's just all wasted, 70% was wasted is what we found. The other thing is that 80% of their data or 90% of the data is inactive which they don't look at it in 30 days or more so you got to take advantage of those phenomenas and get the efficiencies out for them and I think we did it. One other thing we did that was kind of unique that I think stands out that when we started the company we got a lot of press in Minneapolis because there wasn't a lot going on in the venture community then, 2002 and we got covers of magazines in the front page of the business section and we got a lot of interest from people, frankly, calling us saying, hey, can we come see what you're doing? We'd like to look at it and want to be part of it and our first reaction at that time was to give them what I call the Heisman Trophy kind of stiff arm them and tell them we're in secret mode or stealth mode and then we kind of go, this is stupid, we're going to want to talk to these guys a couple months from now, we better bring them in the fold now and we start what we call the C3, the Component Customer Council and that's been fantastic, still goes today. I thought we'd have eight or 10 people in that C3, we had 35 in the original, so this is before we had product, we'd meet with them every six months or every six weeks, tell them what we're doing, get their feedback and they told us where their inefficiencies were and their pain was and I think we're able to be much more on target with what we came out with on a product because of listening to those customers. Yeah, I mean the whole focus on simplicity, I remember I left the storage business for a while with doing some software startups and then came back and you guys had given me a briefing and I was asking questions about your automated tiering but you may, wait a minute, you can actually automate the placement of the, because I didn't believe it, it's like a mainframe and then said, wow, if you can really do this, this is going to be a hot company and sure enough. Yeah, think about putting a volume or a file where part of it is rate 10, part of it's rate six or rate five, part of it's on solid state, part of it's on fiber, part of it's on SATA and it's dynamically moving based on availability, performance and usage characteristics that these are doing. And the virtualization trend is just, it just fits perfectly. Just huge. We don't have a ton of time but I wanted to talk a little bit about your business. I mean, you're growing very well. Why is it that you're growing faster than the industry, substantially faster than the industry and can it continue? Yeah, so we grew last year, we grew 38% year over year. I think our segment shrunk about 5%. So that was a big market share winner for us there. We're doing two things. One is our growth, the revenue growth has come from two places. One is the growth of new customers we're adding. Like last quarter, for instance, we had 182 new customers in one quarter. That's substantial growth right there. And at the same time, if you look at our product revenue, approximately 50% or so comes from existing customers. So that says people like Heineken, once they get the product and they're like it and will migrate more and more of their data from other systems onto us because it's so much easier to use, so much more efficient. So I think the growth that really comes from it, if we can keep those existing customers happy and get the word out on our innovative solution. So we're real bullish on the future there. Great, and I got to ask you. I mean, you must have seen a lot of interest since the whole three-par, Dell, HP thing. I mean, was your website traffic gone through the roof? Oh, it's kind of fun to watch here. Your stock has gone through the roof. So thank you, three-par and Dell. It's fun to watch. You and I go back a long ways in storage. I remember the days when it was snorage. It was a disk drive or a tape drive and that's about all there was to talk about. And it's finally getting its due and getting some excitement, getting some interest and it's real good. I think it really just shows, I mean, just look at the show flow here, what people are doing with the cloud and that kind of stuff here. The storage architecture is very, very important now. It's not just buy a few disk drives and make it happen. You've got to have an architecture that really is going to have the flexibility and efficiencies they're going to need for this cloud environment, so we're excited. And making it simple is hard, isn't it? It's hard, it's real hard. If you look at the sophistication of what we do and then we had a survey of our customers, like 91% said they spend less than three hours a week managing their sand, where before that was three people a week. You better make it simple and make it so it can do what they want to do but do it in a way that's really, really integrated and automated. Excellent, well Phil Sorens, CEO of Compellant. I really appreciate you coming by theCUBE. Great story, congratulations on everything. We look forward to watching your progress. Thank you, this is fun. Take care.