LETTER FROM THE CEO, DAVID SCOTT

3PAR—A New Era
The last five months have brought about many exciting changes for 3PAR and our customers, partners, and supporters. Our November 2007 IPO and listing on the NYSE Arca marked the beginning of a new era for 3PAR that has prompted us to both look back and look ahead. But most of all it has made us think about where we stand and reminded us of how important you are—our loyal customers, partners, and supporters—for helping us get to where we are today.

It is your ongoing partnership, support, and customer references that have helped us to become the leading global provider in utility storage and to accomplish several key milestones in the growth of our business:

• Grew total revenue by 51% in the first nine months of fiscal year 2008 compared to the same period in fiscal year 2007
• Eliminated or offset 12,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2007—equivalent to taking 2300 cars off the road
• Once again singled out by Fortune 1000 companies as having the most exciting storage products or services as determined by TheInfoPro Wave 10 Storage Study
• 3PAR customer, Attenda, won the Hosting Partner of the Year Award at VMworld EMEA in March
• Recent European expansion, including doubling of our European headcount, the launch of a new 3PAR engineering center in Northern Ireland, and a new partnership with AntemetA

In addition to these business accomplishments, 3PARs focus on delivering utility storage for the virtual datacenter has yielded significant company and product news. These recent achievements include the 2008 extension of our Carbon Neutral Storage Program, the launch of 3cVour blueprint for the virtual datacenter, 3PAR Virtual Domains a virtual machine for storage, and 3PAR Nearline for Online a solution which leverages cost-effective SATA drives for online applications.

Please take a few minutes to read more below concerning our latest news, including most recent customer announcements and product news. And thank you once again for enabling 3PAR to continue driving towards our goal of becoming the first major new storage platform company of the 21st century.

Sincerely,
David Scott,
3PAR President and CEO

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CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT

3PAR Utility Storage a Grand Success at Hilton Grand Vacations
"With 3PAR, we have achieved remarkable gains in business agility as well as cost reduction for a broad range of applications including our property management system, databases, messaging, Web servers, and file servers," said Rich Jackson, Vice President of Technology Operations at Hilton Grand Vacations. "With 3cV, we have quadrupled administrative efficiency and can now provision virtualized servers and storage within minutes versus weeks."
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ExactTarget Selects 3PAR Utility Storage for Mission-Critical SaaS
ExactTarget, the market leader in on-demand email and one-to-one marketing solutions, has chosen 3PAR for thin, automated data lifecycle management. With 3PAR Utility Storage, ExactTarget has consolidated customer data onto a single, integrated platform, thereby eliminating the need to purchase and manage multiple classes of arrays to support different price/performance tiers.
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PRODUCT NEWS

Do More with Less: 3PAR Introduces Nearline for Online
3PAR Nearline for Online is designed to enable customers to deploy traditional Nearline capacity—high-capacity, low-cost, enterprise-class Serial ATA (SATA) drives—for a range of applications, including demanding online applications that typically require premium Fibre Channel capacity.
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3PAR Launches Virtual Domains: Virtual Machine Software for Utility Storage
3PAR Virtual Domains is virtual machine software that delivers secure access and improved storage services for different applications and user groups. By providing secure, administrative segregation of users and hosts within a consolidated, massively parallel 3PAR InServ Storage Server, Virtual Domains allows individual user groups and applications to affordably achieve greater storage service levels.
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3PAR Introduces 3cV—A Blueprint for the Virtual Datacenter
3cV stands for the combination of 3PAR Utility Storage with HP BladeSystem c-Class and VMware Infrastructure. A proven blueprint for highly virtualized utility computing, 3cV delivers transformative levels of agility and efficiency to today's challenged IT environments.
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EVENT UPDATE

Storage Decisions
May 13-15
Chicago, IL
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Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit
June 23-25
Orlando, FL
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