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Carphone Warehouse, Europe's leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services with 700 stores in the U.K. and 1,300 in continental Europe, deployed two 3PAR InServ S400 Storage Servers to meet its ever-increasing internal storage demands. Working together with IT consultancy Computacenter Services, the Carphone Warehouse chose 3PAR as the online storage standard for its new virtual datacenter to increase utilization rates, improve performance, simplify storage management, and ultimately accelerate the time to market for new applications.

With 3PAR Utility Storage we have demonstrated a 50% reduction in storage TCO while significantly increasing overall service levels. With 3PAR, we can do so much more than we anticipated.

-Steven Gall
Enterprise Architect
Carphone Warehouse Europe

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Comic Relief was launched on Christmas Day in 1985, live on BBC One. At that time, a devastating famine was crippling Ethiopia and something had to be done. That something was Comic Relief. The idea was simple - Comic Relief would make the public laugh while they raised money to help people in desperate need. Before too long, Red Nose Day was created and the first ever event in 1988 raised a staggering £15m. To date, twelve Red Nose Days have raised more than £490m. That money has helped, and is helping, to support people and communities in dire need both in the UK and Africa. Comic Relief now organizes a second major fundraising campaign - Sport Relief - which takes place in alternate years with Red Nose Day. The idea is that everyone gets active, raises cash and helps to change lives. Comic Relief spends the money raised to make a difference to the lives of poor and disadvantaged people in the UK and across the world's poorest countries.

3PAR supported us brilliantly by lending us all the storage we needed for this year’s campaign. The truly exceptional online donation platform coped easily with a 25% growth over 2007 and double the peak traffic ever seen on the night of television. On that night we took in £54.7 million in donations; we are overwhelmed at the success of the campaign at such a difficult time. It is testament indeed to the humanity of the UK public.

-Charlotte Melen
Web Technology Programme Manager
Comic Relief

Our primary purpose is to maximise the performance of WPP's media communications agencies on behalf of our clients, our shareholders and our people by operating as a parent and collaborator in performance-enhancing activities such as trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. The agencies that comprise GroupM are all global operations in their own right with leading market positions.

The focus of GroupM is the intelligent application of physical and intellectual scale to benefit trading, innovation, and new communication services, to bring unfair competitive advantage to our clients and our companies.

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Hilton Grand Vacations, the timeshare division of Hilton Hotels Corporation, develops, markets, and operates a system of brand-name, high-quality vacation ownership resorts in select vacation destinations. Hilton Grand Vacations chose 3PAR Utility Storage to support its key mission-critical applications. In addition to selecting multiple 3PAR InServ Storage Servers to be dispersed geographically, the company has also implemented a complete virtual datacenter based on the 3cV blueprint. "3cV" stands for the combination of the 3PAR InServ Storage Server, HP^® BladeSystem c-Class server blades, and VMware vSphere™. These elements combine to form a complete utility computing offering enables customers to halve server, storage, and operational costs while gaining instant agility.

With 3PAR, we have achieved remarkable gains in business agility as well as a cost reduction for a broad range of applications including our property management system, databases, messaging, Web servers, and file servers. With 3cV, we have quadrupled administrative efficiency and can now provision virtualized servers and storage within minutes versus weeks.

-Rich Jackson
Vice President of Technology Operations
Hilton Grand Vacations

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Mary Kay^®, one of the largest direct sellers of skin care and color cosmetics, has reduced storage capacity and associated energy requirements by 50 percent by deploying highly virtualized 3PAR Utility Storage. With 3PAR, Mary Kay has reduced storage costs by 20 percent and achieved an administration time savings of 60 percent over legacy storage, which is not virtualized. Since deploying 3PAR, Mary Kay has not only reduced CAPEX and OPEX, but has also significantly increased high availability in their storage environment. In addition, 3PAR Utility Storage has given Mary Kay superior performance and scalability in their storage infrastructure, enabling the cosmetics giant to better meet customer demands.

We needed high-performance storage that was highly reliable, available, and extremely economical. Plus it needed to retain these benefits while scaling to meet future growth. This is precisely what 3PAR delivered.

-Todd Thelen
Technology Leader
Mary Kay

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Netia SA, Poland’s largest alternative provider of fixed-line telecommunications services, has consolidated their legacy storage infrastructure onto 3PAR Utility Storage to cut costs, eliminate performance bottlenecks, increase availability, speed provisioning of new services, and reduce administration time. With 3PAR, Netia’s datacenter supports over a million voice service customers and nearly half a million broadband subscribers with 40% less capacity than required with traditional storage arrays. Netia’s new 3PAR Utility Storage infrastructure has reduced storage administration time by 90% as compared to the telecom provider’s previous environment and has enhanced its business agility by reducing the average time to provision new volumes from several hours to just minutes.

We understood that 3PAR technology was extremely innovative, and that there was no other technology like it on the market. But having only ever dealt with traditional storage vendors, we were unsure about reliability and support. At the time, choosing 3PAR seemed risky for us. These concerns turned out to be completely unfounded, as 3PAR has delivered us with five-nines availability and fast, effective support—and for almost half the cost of traditional storage.

-Marek Wolynko
Storage Expert
Netia

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Sunlight Service Group Ltd, is the UK's leading supplier of textile rental and laundering services. Sunlight is the number one supplier of workwear rental in the UK with over one million people wearing its garments at work every day. Sunlight chose 3PAR Utility Storage for its unique combination of high availability, massive scalability and superior performance with unmatched simplicity and efficiency.

In order to consolidate disparate IT systems, improve efficiency and reduce costs, we sought to invest in a resilient and scalable yet cost-effective storage platform to support our new centralised Dynamics™ system. With 3PAR Utility Storage, we have been able to meet our rigorous service level demands for a centralised data repository while cutting our total cost of ownership for storage by more than 50% over competing storage systems. We have just two IT administrators dedicated to both servers and storage and less than 2% of their time is spent administering the 3PAR system. 3PAR has been of considerable benefit in freeing up valuable resources.

-Najeeb Ahmad
Technical Projects & Support Manager
Sunlight Service Group Ltd