THE THIEF IN YOUR DATACENTER

Data center complexity steals from you daily. Utility Storage kills complexity cold.

It's all about time. A minute here, an hour there. Before you know it, you've lost months and your competitors are light years ahead of you. When it comes to staying competitive, time equals opportunity, which equals money. It all boils down to the need to find ways to increase your company's efficiency.

With all its complexity, the IT infrastructure can be one of the most vulnerable areas, losing time and money every day. Where losses within the IT infrastructure are concerned, storage is a likely culprit.

Mark Blowers, Senior Research Analyst at the Butler Group, argues that you must handle storage strategically and proactively to head off such IT infrastructure losses:

"It is crucial that organizations treat information as a strategic resource and include storage provisioning into overall IT aims. Progressing on the path of knee-jerk reactions to the increasing cost of data by throwing more disc space at the problem or ignoring it by leaving all data on disc can no longer continue. The time has come to grasp the nettle, stop firefighting the symptoms and develop a strategy to attack the root causes.

Organizations that fail to match their requirements to storage deployment will invariably find themselves with data that is held for too long or on an inappropriate medium, all of which adds up to increased cost of data ownership at a time when there is still pressure to reduce budgets."

So what's a CTO to do?

Utility Storage: your weapon in the fight
3PAR's highly scalable and uniquely virtualized InServ Storage Server is enabling companies, including dozens of Fortune & Global 1000s, to cut storage administration by up to 90% and capacity costs by up to 75%. 

Take SAVVIS Communications, for example, a leading application service provider.  By its own estimation, SAVVIS has cut 50% from the traditional ASP model by building a highly virtualized hosting infrastructure based on 3PAR Utility Storage. SAVVIS Communications is just one of the many examples of how Utility Storage is empowering organizations in taking a strategic and proactive approach to heading off IT infrastructure losses.

"To adapt to new business demands and opportunities, IT resources must be pooled, shared and flexibly deployed based on business policy. The utility computing model reduces costs, improves resource utilization and raises service levels to business applications."

Source: Yankee Group Decisions Note(SM)
Increase IT Performance and Business Value with Utility Computing and Storage
March 15, 2005

Contact 3PAR today to find out how you can use Utility Storage to increase efficiency, reduce costs and kill complexity cold.

For more information
3PAR InServ Storage Servers
Correy Voo: "The Case for Utility Computing"
Mark Blowers: "Capacity for Change"
mySnapshot Press Release
Hamish MacArthur: Utility "AE" what does this deliver?

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