3PAR Government & Education Customers

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A 3PAR "Think Thin. Think Green." award recipient, CACI is a Fortune 1000 solution provider. Recognized by 3PAR as a leading user of Thin Provisioning, CACI is significantly reducing costs and annual energy consumption with the efficient thin technologies offered with 3PAR Utility Storage. CACI, combined with two other leading 3PAR Thin Provisioning users, saves approximately one-quarter million kilowatt hours of energy on an annual basis—eliminating the output of nearly 400,000 lbs. of C02 emissions each year. To recognize these leading organizations and their use of Thin Provisioning, 3PAR awarded three customers—IAC, CACI, and Edelman—with the "Think Thin. Think Green." award in 2007. As part of the award recognition, 3PAR purchased $3,000 in carbon offsets on behalf of each winner through TerraPass, the leading retailer of greenhouse gas reduction programs in the US.

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The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DCWASA) is a multi-jurisdictional regional utility that provides drinking water and wastewater collection and treatment to more than 500,000 retail, residential, commercial, and governmental customers in the District of Columbia. DCWASA relies on 3PAR to support not only its customer information, but also the monitoring and tracking of its entire distribution system, which consists of thousands of valves and hydrants as well as miles of pipe.

With 3PAR Rapid Provisioning we can now meet storage requests so quickly that when a database administrator puts in a request for new storage, that request is completed before they can return to their desk.

-Joe Edwards
Team Lead Network Administrator at DCWASA, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority

NASA Ames Research Center has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage to store digital images taken with the Kepler Space Telescope as it orbits the Sun tracking planets in solar systems outside our own. NASA Ames chose the resilient 3PAR storage system to meet strict cost and performance requirements. Their decision to implement 3PAR Utility Storage was also based on the massive scalability that the platform would give them and the fact that, with 3PAR, NASA could avoid the need for a full-time, dedicated storage expert.

We simply can't predict our ultimate storage needs at this time, but the agility, resilience, and scalability of 3PAR's technology gives us confidence in our storage infrastructure—no matter how large our data needs grow.

-Chris Middour
Manager, Kepler Operations Science Center (Orbital Sciences Corporation), NASA Ames Research Center

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Seattle University currently has five VMware® ESX servers and over 40 virtualized servers, all running on their 3PAR InServ Storage Server. The educational institution also uses advanced VMware ESX functionality including VMotion, which is capable of migrating a running virtual machine to a different physical server without service interruption. With this joint 3PAR and VMware solution, Seattle University has the agility to rapidly provision new virtual servers and respond to user requests in a more timely fashion. Automation, ease of use, simplicity of management, and high performance levels are just some of the benefits the university has experienced with their joint 3PAR and VMware solution.

Everything just works the way it is supposed to, including advanced VMware ESX functionality. The 3PAR array's virtualization capabilities make it simple to manage and maintain high performance levels automatically. Performance, availability, and support have been excellent from both 3PAR and VMware.

-Charles Gentry
Unix Architect / Systems Manager, Seattle University

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The U.S. Army selected 3PAR Utility Storage with 3PAR Thin Provisioning and Remote Copy to support its mission-essential Distributed Learning System (DLS) group. DLS selected 3PAR Utility Storage for its ease-of-use, cost-effective disaster recovery, simple implementation, and ability to cut storage capacity. 3PAR Remote Copy delivers dramatic cost savings by enabling DLS to implement long-distance disaster recovery over IP simply and with no vendor professional services. With 3PAR Thin Provisioning, DLS has cut the potential cost of their storage capacity by 50%.

With 3PAR Utility Storage, we are able to provide training for U.S. Army Soldiers and units—anytime, anywhere—for significantly reduced physical storage cost and effort. 3PAR enables us to achieve our training objectives by providing cost-efficient access to critical training programs that are essential to mission success.

-Bob Hall
Storage Architect, U.S. Army (Distributed Learning System)

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A division of the U.S. Census Bureau, the Center for Economic Studies has created a flexible and cost-effective utility computing environment by deploying 3PAR Utility Storage and Linux. This deployment has enabled the U.S. Census Bureau to significantly increase its support of researchers by extending access to research on economic and demographic data to leading universities and institutions. By selecting a modular, Linux-based server solution with 3PAR Utility Storage, the Census Bureau has tripled the scale of its centralized data environment to a total of 35 terabytes, simply and affordably. They have also reduced storage administration by 95%, freeing valuable time. As a result, the Census Bureau's growing user base is able to access more data than ever, both reliably and quickly.

Our users were stifled by an inflexible environment. We have extensive experience with numerous vendors and solutions, but nothing delivered the simplicity, scalability, and flexibility we've gotten from the 3PAR system.

-Darrin Stolba
Project Lead, U.S. Census Bureau's Research Data Center Upgrade, U.S. Census Bureau