3PAR Internet / Web 2.0 Customers

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Alibris has deployed 3PAR Utility Storage to support all mission-critical applications, including its data-intensive product inventory system. After evaluating alternatives from traditional Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) vendors, Alibris selected 3PAR Utility Storage to support its inventory management system, retail website, search engine, and e-commerce order-processing system, all of which are based on multiple clustered Microsoft® SQL Server™ databases. Alibris provides an online exchange for sellers of more than 60 million used, new and out-of-print book, music and movie titles worldwide.

A reliable, high-performing and easy-to-use consolidated storage platform is key to successfully scaling our data-intensive applications. With 3PAR Utility Storage we get maximum simplicity coupled with high performance. Now only 15% of our system administrator's time is spent managing storage. 3PAR's virtualization automatically optimizes our disk drive investment with zero potential for lost performance.

-Michael Schaffer
Chief Technology Officer, Alibris

Ask.com, the world's seventh-largest Web property and premier provider of online information services, chose 3PAR Utility Storage over monolithic arrays from traditional vendors to consolidate and support its mission-critical portal and ad-serving databases. 3PAR Utility Storage is now used to support Ask.com, Excite, iWon, MyWay, Smiley Central, and Zwinky Web properties.

Community Connect creates and maintains online communities targeted at US ethnic audiences. Community Connect's Web properties include AsianAvenue.com, BlackPlanet.com, and MiGente.com, boasting 16 million users and about 1.2 billion page views a month. The company's NetApp environment had reached its limit in both performance and capacity when Community Connect decided to deploy OnStor's NAS gateways coupled with 3PAR Utility Storage.

With 3PAR, management tasks such as storage provisioning—which used to take us days—can now be done in minutes.

-Nicholas Tang
Director of Operations, Community Connect

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» Computerworld eHarmony Q&A

With over eight million users, eHarmony is the Internet's fastest-growing relationship service. To accommodate business growth—which consumes gigabytes of new capacity per day—and to support new initiatives, eHarmony sought to replace its aging infrastructure of modular arrays. After considering modular array alternatives from a traditional vendor, eHarmony selected a 3PAR InServ S400 Storage Server for each of its data centers. eHarmony also chose 3PAR Thin Provisioning software. eHarmony's mission-critical website, matchmaking application, payment processing, and photo and profile servers are now supported by 3PAR Utility Storage.

Buying ten-year-old storage technology doesn't work for us. The capabilities 3PAR brought to the table were a no-brainer. Once you understand 3PAR's architecture, the benefits are obvious and compelling.

-Mark Douglas
VP of Technology, eHarmony

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The world's largest photo blogging community, Fotolog is an online community that lets anyone publish an online photo journal, or photo blog, and share it worldwide. Enthusiasts from 200 countries post over 230,000 photos and one million messages each day. Since deploying two 3PAR InServ Storage Servers with 3PAR Thin Provisioning—one for production and one for remote disk-to-disk backup—Fotolog has reduced storage administration time by 99%.

With 3PAR Thin Provisioning, you set it up and walk away. As actual data is written, the system tells us when it needs more capacity—which is added simply and non-disruptively. With 3PAR, we've cut our monthly storage administration time from 40 hours to 30 minutes.

-Nathan Boeger
Director of Network Operations, Fotolog

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FreshDirect is the largest and fastest-growing online provider of fresh foods in New York City. This Queens-based firm regularly prepares and delivers over 8,000 products to over 100,000 customers. FreshDirect has over $100 million in revenues and has flourished by leveraging e-commerce distribution and supply chain best practices. With the deployment of 3PAR Utility Storage, FreshDirect has consolidated their general corporate applications in order to gain business agility and enhance customer service.

Our IT is now poised to enable the expansion of our business. 3PAR has helped us retain orders and enhance our customers' experience by creating a faster, more available environment.

-Myles Trachtenberg
Chief Technology Officer, FreshDirect

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A 3PAR "Think Thin. Think Green." award recipient, IAC is the owner and operator of more than 60 specialized and global brands. Recognized by 3PAR as a leading user of Thin Provisioning, IAC is significantly reducing costs and annual energy consumption with the efficient thin technologies offered with 3PAR Utility Storage. IAC, 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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Jacent, a leading provider of on-demand ordering solutions for the restaurant and hospitality industries, deployed 3PAR Utility Storage with 3PAR Thin Provisioning and Virtual Copy to support its Web-based, mission-critical Ordering-On-Demand platform. Jacent selected the 3PAR InServ Storage Server because it offers a high-performance and high-availability storage infrastructure with unmatched simplicity and efficiency.

A highly responsive, available, yet cost-competitive IT infrastructure is key to our success. With 3PAR Utility Storage, we estimate that we have cut our total cost of ownership for storage by two-thirds over competing platforms while still being able to meet our rigorous service level demands.

-Venky Rangachari
Vice President of Operations, Jacent

» Inside MySpace Article

MySpace.com is the most popular social networking website on the Internet. MySpace integrates web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, mail, music streaming, photo galleries, classified listings, user forums, calendars, and events all into a tightly networked community. Through these features, users can profile their lives online and connect with others around shared interests. With 3PAR Utility Storage, MySpace has an agile and resilient storage infrastructure that enables rapid business growth.

We purchased 3PAR because the benefits were significant enough to warrant a shift away from traditional enterprise storage technologies. Provisioning is ridiculously simple and the scalability can match the rapid growth of our business. It's clear to us that 3PAR has something very special and is increasingly becoming well established with high-growth companies like ours.

-Aber Whitcomb
Chief Technology Officer, MySpace.com

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NewsGator Technologies provides individuals, self-hosting corporations, and SaaS customers with scalable solutions for pulling value from the Web through customized delivery of RSS content. NewsGator supports its business with a multi-tier architecture that includes SQL Server 2008 and 3PAR Utility Storage as its primary data SAN. NewsGator benefits from the enhanced Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2008, which it uses for high availability.

3PAR already provides a reliable and easy-to-use consolidated storage platform for our Windows Server environment. With 3PAR’s support of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, we can now combine Microsoft’s most advanced operating system and database technology with our 3PAR Utility Storage platform to run our business with complete confidence.

-Glenn Berry
Database Architect, NewsGator Technologies

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The 3PAR price was just right for "name-your-own-price" online travel pioneer Priceline.com. Traditional modular monolithic storage neither fit the bill nor Priceline.com's need for availability, ease-of-use, performance, and cost savings. As the foundation for its utility storage environment, Priceline.com consolidated 50 Fibre Channel and 60 SCSI arrays onto five larger 3PAR InServ Storage Servers. Each system delivers automatic volume management and configuration as well as automatic load balancing across all of the system resources, thus dramatically reducing storage administration and eliminating the need to overprovision purchased resources. The InServ's massive and fine-grained scalability of capacity, performance, and connectivity, enables Priceline.com to grow within their purchased systems, not out of them.

3PAR Utility Storage is the most cost-effective storage we've found to meet our critical performance and 99.999% availability objectives. By consolidating on 3PAR, we've reduced our storage administration by more than 50% and doubled our capacity utilization.

-Ron Rose
Chief Information Officer, Priceline.com

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Shopzilla, formerly BizRate.com, is the most powerful and easiest-to-use shopping search site on the Web. With an index of more than 30 million products from more than 55,000 stores, Shopzilla uses ShopRank, a proprietary patent-pending algorithm, to help shoppers instantly find virtually anything on sale from anyone, anywhere on the Web, at the best price.