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3PAR Loads High-End Features Into Scaled-Down InServ E200 Storage Server

New Storage Array Brings Benefits of Utility Storage to Mid-size Deployments

FREMONT, CA, August 28, 2006

3PAR®, the leading provider of Utility Storage, introduced today the InServ® E200 Storage Server. The InServ E200, a mid-range version of 3PAR's leading InServ S400 and S800 arrays, is ideal for departmental, replicated site and remote data center deployments. The new E200 is well suited for mid-size deployments with enterprises and service providers that demand the highest levels of availability, ease-of-use and cost-effectiveness. Leveraging the same 3PAR InForm® Operating System and software as the InServ S-Class Storage Servers, the new E-Class offers 100% common data management with 3PAR's high-end platform, no-compromise Fibre Channel and iSCSI host connectivity and cache-coherent clustered controllers.

"The InServ E200 Storage Server gives us the unmatched simplicity and efficiency benefits of Utility Storage in a scaled-down architecture that meets our business requirements," said Thor Peterson, Director of IT at Clarium Capital Management, LLC, a leading hedge fund. "We never imagined this class of storage could be so affordable."

With the InServ E200, the market-leading technology of the 3PAR InSpire® Architecture is re-packaged in a new, modular form factor that scales non-disruptively from 16 to 128 drives and from 2 to 63 terabytes using 147-GB Fibre Channel, 300-GB Fibre Channel and/or 500-GB Nearline drives. Customers can leverage broad connectivity options with 4 to 12 Fibre Channel host ports in conjunction with four optional iSCSI ports. The InServ E200 features the InSpire Architecture's "single-system" cache-coherent cluster technology, whereby redundant E200 Controller Nodes simultaneously service and export all storage volumes in a load-balanced manner. Customers eliminate the storage configuration and planning headaches associated with traditional "active/passive" clustering technologies, which require users to effectively manage two single-controller systems within each array. E200 Controller Nodes also feature the 3PAR ASIC for fast RAID 5 as well as mixed-workload support, a technology that delivers simultaneously high transaction and throughput performance.

"In today's diverse enterprises, IT managers often struggle to efficiently manage two or more distinct and often incompatible classes of storage," said Richard Villars, Vice President of Storage Systems at IDC. "One set of storage systems supports mission critical enterprise applications within the data center while another set supports important departmental applications that are deployed in multiple locations. 3PAR's introduction of the E200 departmental storage system, which is 100% software compatible with its high-end S-Class, puts the company in a strong position to enable simple and consistent deployment and management for all of an enterprise's storage assets."

The same 3PAR Utility Storage software that provides fine-grained internal virtualization for the InServ S-Class is also available for the InServ E-Class. Available software includes:

• 3PAR Rapid Provisioning: 15-second provisioning of application-tailored volumes with no pre-planning. Eliminates the training, effort and professional services required by manual system resource allocation and configuration.
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• 3PAR Dynamic Optimization: Ability to convert data volumes from one service level to another with a single command, online and non-disruptively. Eliminates manual and disruptive change processes required to align applications with data service levels.
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• 3PAR Thin Provisioning: Automatic, dedicate-on-write technology for purchasing and configuring physical capacity for written data only. Can more than triple storage utilization versus dedicate-on-allocation technologies.
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• 3PAR Virtual Copy and 3PAR Remote Copy: Hyper-efficient and simplified replication technologies that allow customers to share and protect any application affordably. This software eliminates the traditional trade-offs involved in maximizing both recovery time and recovery point objectives.

"3PAR customers told us they had mid-size deployments that deserved the same rich features delivered by the S-Class, and the E200 is a direct response to their feedback," said David Scott, President and CEO of 3PAR. "Our customers love the data management and administrative compatibility now available seamlessly from the mid-range to the high-end."

Pricing for an InServ E200 Storage Server with 2.3 terabytes of capacity and the InForm Operating Suite (including 3PAR Rapid Provisioning, Access Guard and Full Copy software) begins at less than $65,000. This configuration also includes four Fibre Channel host ports, system installation, two years of software support and a two-year hardware warranty with four-hour business day response. The InServ E200 is available in a 1- or 2-meter 3PAR cabinet and may also be installed in third-party 19" standard racks or cabinets. The InServ E200 is available immediately.

About 3PAR
3PAR® (NYSE Arca: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, tightly-clustered, and dynamically-tiered storage arrays built for utility computing. Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR Utility Storage gives customers an alternative to traditional arrays by delivering resilient infrastructure with increased agility at a lower total cost to meet their rapidly changing business needs. As a pioneer of thin provisioning — a green technology developed to address storage underutilization and inefficiencies — 3PAR offers products designed to minimize power consumption and promote environmental responsibility. With 3PAR, customers have reduced the costs of allocated storage capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency. 3PAR Utility Storage is built to meet the demands of open systems consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management, and performance-intensive applications.