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GROWTH IN EMEA

John TaffinderIndustry veteran from HDS joins 3PAR in Europe

What follows remarkable European growth? Expanded European resources to service new and prospective 3PAR customers! 3PAR® has appointed John Taffinder as General Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Taffinder, a highly accomplished senior executive and a well-known figure in the European storage industry, has joined 3PAR's global sales management team, reporting to Jim Dawson, Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Taffinder‘s mission is to continue to grow 3PAR Utility Storage within the EMEA market.

Taffinder was previously with Hitachi Data Systems, where he held the top EMEA role of Executive Vice President and General Manager, directing a team of 1,000 people. Under Taffinder's direction, HDS successfully expanded its operations across EMEA and signed an average of one new customer each working day, leading to doubled revenues in a four-year period.

I was looking for a dynamic, fast-growing organization with solid credentials and plenty of potential. With its focus on Utility Storage, 3PAR was the natural choice. 3PAR offers both customers and the channel so much more than traditional storage vendors. I am thrilled to join such an exciting and innovative organization and I am looking forward to strengthening the company's outreach in EMEA.

— John Taffinder
General Manager for EMEA
3PAR

For more information
Press Release
Byte and Switch: 3PAR Expands Presence In Europe

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OPTIMIZING SERVICE LEVELS—DYNAMICALLY!
 

3PAR Dynamic Optimization takes the guesswork and complexity out of service level optimization


How do you perfectly tailor your data service levels without over- or under-provisioning? 3PAR Dynamic Optimization eliminates the barriers to a well-optimized environment by doing away with planned migration activities and any impact to your applications. With 3PAR Dynamic Optimization, you are truly just one command away from being “perfectly” provisioned.

3PAR Dynamic Optimization means we can optimize storage service levels on demand. This is a far cry from the limitations and complexities required by other optimization approaches that rely on data migration. With Dynamic Optimization, there is no guesswork. Our applications are not impacted and our business runs with greater efficiency.

—Mark Douglas, Vice President of Technology, eHarmony

Eliminate those incremental migration facilities! Recycle those inflexible single-tier storage devices. Now you can address common business problems in a new and efficient manner.

With 3PAR Dynamic Optimization, you can:

  • Proactively increase your data service levels during your peak demand periods and then easily return to standard levels afterwards.
  • Meet service level or SLA change orders on demand.
  • Manage changes in the value of the data or the overall processing demands of an application over the data lifecycle.
  • Recapture allocated storage capacity on demand when your business experiences unexpected growth.

 

For more information
Press Release: 3PAR Dynamic Optimization
Data Sheet: 3PAR Dynamic Optimization
Byte and Switch: 3PAR Touts Dynamic Interface
Storage Networking World Online: Look before leaping...

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KNOWING IT WILL ALL WORK TOGETHER: PRICELESS!

3PAR Utility Storage has been certified with the Microsoft® Cluster Services Qualification on HP ProLiant DL Servers

A storage system is not isolated from the rest of the IT department; it is an integrated part of your overall IT solution. As such, you look for a robust, certified storage solution that has been tested and will be fully supported once you get it “home,” into your IT department.

Now you can deploy with confidence: 3PAR is committed to delivering mission-critical Utility Storage for Windows® environments. Due to close collaboration with HP and Microsoft, the 3PAR InServ® Storage Server is now qualified with Microsoft Cluster Services and HP ProLiant DL servers. 3PAR Utility Storage is pre-tested and validated to interoperate seamlessly within your environment.

The 3PAR InServ Storage Server has been tested and certified to run on up to an eight-node HP ProLiant DL server cluster running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Cluster Services. Certified server nodes include the HP ProLiant DL380 G4, DL380 G3, DL580 G2 and DL740. With this configuration, Microsoft, HP, and 3PAR have validated uninterrupted access to your data stored on 3PAR Utility Storage, even in the event of a production server outage.

For more information
Press Release

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PROTECT MORE APPLICATIONS WITHIN YOUR BUDGET

3PAR Remote Copy reduces cost and complexity for service providers and regional enterprise data centers

Your business operates in multiple locations with multiple IT departments and multiple servers all thousands of miles away from each other. To protect against disaster, you’d like to mirror your data between your data centers but you’re not sure how much application data you can protect since it can be so expensive. What kind of tradeoffs and compromises will you have to make?

If you have 3PAR Remote Copy with Many-to-One support, there are no compromises. 3PAR's centralized disaster recovery offering builds on 3PAR Remote Copy—the simple, efficient, array-based data replication product. 3PAR Remote Copy with Many-to-One support allows remote data replication from several distributed 3PAR InServ Storage Servers to a single, centralized InServ Storage Server located hundreds—or thousands—of miles away.

Remote Copy with Many-to-One support substantially reduces the number of arrays required versus a matched-set approach, reducing the cost and complexity of deploying consolidated data replication. As a result of these cost savings, you can protect more applications within your existing budgets. These benefits are particularly relevant for service providers offering disaster recovery services and for enterprises that are archiving data centrally from their regional data centers.

For more information
Press Release
SNS Europe: 3PAR transforms centralised disaster recovery

 

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ARE YOU BUYING MORE STORAGE THAN YOU NEED?
 

Over half of the respondents in a recent survey buy more capacity than necessary.

As nonsensical and wasteful as it may seem, purchasing more storage capacity than necessary is in fact the norm. A recent Vanson Bourne study of over 100 companies in the London financial, manufacturing, retail, distribution, and transport industries has revealed that millions of pounds are spent annually on storage capacity that is just not required.

Why is this? With traditional storage, adding capacity is disruptive to the business, which can be extremely costly and even devastating to productivity. To address the possibility of unplanned downtime and avoid more costly disruptions, many companies over-allocate storage up-front rather than run the risk of greater costs down the road.

But with 3PAR Utility Storage, you no longer have to choose between making a large up-front purchase and taking a chance of not having enough storage when you most need it. 3PAR Thin Provisioning enables you to allocate any amount of capacity to any application without actually deploying that amount of physical storage at that moment in time. You can provision capacity to an application just once with Thin Provisioned virtual storage. Physical capacity is then added as needed, nondisruptively, as an application writes data.

For more information
3PAR Survey Press Release

 

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