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3PAR Green Customers
3PAR® has helped customers such as Hilton Grand Vacations and California State University meet their green IT objectives by shrinking their capacity, power consumption, and ultimately their carbon footprints by as much as 60%—results which have been recognized by third-party agencies such as PG&E, Wikibon Energy Lab, Storage Networking World, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and the Technology Managers Forum.
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Built on highly virtualized and energy-efficient 3PAR Utility Storage, Hilton Grand Vacations' storage infrastructure has been singled out by Storage Networking World (SNW), in conjunction with IDG's Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for having achieved a standard of excellence in sustainable technology that provides a model for the industry. HGV has also been recognized by the Technology Managers Forum in the category of Storage Management as part of their 2008 Best Practice Awards program.
We see the cost savings of our virtualized datacenter as just one reward for replacing legacy equipment with more efficient, sustainable technologies. With 3PAR Utility Storage, we have increased our efficiency and built an agile and resilient infrastructure, but we have also reduced our carbon footprint by an estimated 60%.
-Rich Jackson
Vice President of Technology Operations, Hilton Grand Vacations
Chosen by IDG's InfoWorld as one of the "Green 15", California State University East Bay (CSUEB) deployed the powerful combination of 3PAR and VMware to avert a power crisis and meet green computing goals. They replaced inefficient, outdated storage with a utility computing infrastructure to reduce storage capacity requirements by 80% and power consumption by 26%--even after adding 21 new applications. These savings qualified CSUEB to receive financial incentives from PG&E through the Virtual Technology Incentive Program (V-TIP) based on projected power savings of $30,000. These savings were independently validated by Wikibon Energy Lab--a service provided by wikibon.org, which determined that 3PAR Thin Provisioning reduces energy consumption by up to 75% and that replacing aging storage with next-gen 3PAR arrays can save up to 90% on energy costs.
Lowering operational costs through storage virtualization is a key opportunity for our IT organization. The incentives that PG&E provides for deploying 3PAR storage virtualization and Thin Provisioning offer a compelling enticement to accelerate our storage virtualization efforts.
-Jonathan Taylor
Systems Engineer, California State University, East Bay
