3PAR Enterprise Customers

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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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» Hilton Grand Vacations Saves Big with 3cV (webcast)

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, and VMware® Infrastructure. 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