3PAR Financial Services Customers

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Brevan Howard is one of the largest and fastest growing hedge funds in Europe. The London-based fund manages over £6 billion in assets. As a fast growing company, IT demands at Brevan Howard required a high-performance and highly scalable storage infrastructure that could be managed simply and flexibly. Brevan Howard selected the 3PAR Utility Storage platform for the fund's mission-critical trade entry system based on its superior performance, cost-effective storage management, affordable disaster recovery, and overall platform utility.

We felt 3PAR was the right choice for us. 3PAR Utility Storage gives us the opportunity to deliver high—and in some cases greater—levels of service with reduced time, expertise, and cost.

-Paul Bryant
Head of Technology
Brevan Howard

Clarium is a global macro hedge fund headquartered in San Francisco, California. Clarium chose the 3PAR InServ E200 for it's unmatched simplicity, efficiency, and affordability.

The InServ E200 Storage Server gives us the unmatched simplicity and efficiency benefits of 3PAR Utility Storage in a scaled-down architecture that meets our business requirements. We never imagined this class of storage could be so affordable.

-Thor Peterson
Director of IT
Clarium Capital Management

Credit Suisse is a leading global financial services company that has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage as the storage standard for its IT organization. Credit Suisse selected the highly virtualized 3PAR platform over the alternatives for its unmatched simplicity and efficiency.

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With 130,000 members, Georgia's Own Credit Union is one of the largest credit unions in the state of Georgia, offering a wide variety of financial products and banking services. With its member base and data requirements projected to grow rapidly, the IT team at Georgia's Own realized that they needed to build out a more robust storage infrastructure to support their growth. After evaluating the combination of the 3PAR InServ Storage Server with Oracle^® Database at the Oracle Enterprise Technology Center in Atlanta, Georgia, the credit union decided that the benefits of 3PAR Utility Storage were obvious and compelling enough for a purchase.

Evaluating the 3PAR InServ at the Oracle Enterprise Technology Center was a quick and cost-effective way to assess these two outstanding offerings. We witnessed in real-time the significant utility computing benefits of this 3PAR-Oracle joint solution.

-Scott McCall
SVP/Chief Information Officer
Georgia's Own Credit Union

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Intesa Sanpaolo, one of Europe's largest retail and commercial banks, deployed two 3PAR InServ Storage Servers to support its mission-critical capital markets and merchant banking applications. As part of this deployment, Intesa Sanpaolo also selected 3PAR Remote Copy and 3PAR mySnapshot for their robust yet simple and efficient disaster recovery and application test capabilities.

With 3PAR Utility Storage we've not only met our growth and disaster recovery requirements, but we have done so for dramatically less cost and effort than any other alternative would have allowed.

-Salvatore Catalfamo
IT Manager
Intesa Sanpaolo

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With more than $8 billion in assets, MB Financial, Inc. has grown substantially over the past several years. To ensure that their storage environment could stand up to aggressive growth and meet availability requirements with less complexity, MB Financial selected the 3PAR InServ Storage Server to centralize and consolidate all of its mission-critical data storage. Since consolidating with 3PAR, MB Financial has dramatically increased capacity utilization by leveraging 3PAR's dedicate-on-write technologies including 3PAR Thin Provisioning.

By implementing 3PAR Thin Provisioning our overall storage utilization is now at 70%, which has really boosted our storage efficiency.

-Andy Kukuk
SAN Engineer
MB Financial

NYSE Euronext (NYSE/New York and Euronext/Paris: NYX) operates the world's largest and most liquid exchange group. The stock exchange requires a high performance, "always on" solution that prompted NYSE Euronext to add a 3PAR Utility Storage array to this highly virtualized environment. 3PAR's intelligent, autonomic approach to storage and the low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) offered by the 3PAR InServ Storage Server enhances NYSE Euronext's agility, efficiency, and reliability that its exchanges demand.

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Leading merchant bank Thomas Weisel adopted the 3PAR InServ Storage Server to consolidate and protect mission-critical Oracle, messaging, and file-based data. By consolidating onto 3PAR Utility Storage, Thomas Weisel has increased capacity utilization by 100% and dramatically cut the cost of implementing and managing its disaster recovery plan.

3PAR Utility Storage has been a relief for our organization. We can now apply 95% fewer resources to storage administration and we are rid of the high price premiums associated with monolithic arrays.

-Larry Sikon
Chief Information Officer
Thomas Weisel Partners