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3PAR scored an 8.9 product review rating in the August issue of InfoWorld.
The Bottom Line:
The 3PAR InServ S400 and its bigger sibling, the S800, bring very sophisticated storage technology and high performance to the table at competitive prices. The thin provisioning feature and on-the-fly changes to RAID levels make it exceptionally flexible and expandable.
— Logan G. Harbaugh, InfoWorld
Source:
Product
Review: 3PAR for the High Performance Storage Course
ENTERPRISE STRATEGY GROUP ON 3PAR |
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3PAR was the first with true Thin Provisioning, which has quickly become a must-have in shops requiring utility capabilities. Now they raise the bar further by offering Dynamic Optimization—the first real quality of service functions I've seen in a modular, enterprise-class array.
– Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise
Strategy Group
3PAR Dynamic Optimization is extremely useful — [due to] the ability to move data between different tiers of storage transparently and online. The economic benefits can be very substantial. Traditional storage systems don't have this capability and it's a cumbersome and disruptive process to move data between different tiers of storage. With 3PAR, customers can also set up policies to move the data as an automated process.
—Tony Asaro, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.
The value that 3PAR Utility Storage brings to customers is quantifiable and very obvious. Priceline.com is another example of the many 3PAR customers that are significantly reducing capital cost and eliminating many of the cumbersome and time consuming tasks of managing storage. 3PAR has reached the next level in its growth with customer-proven solutions that are supporting mission-critical environments with the highest performance and reliability requirements.
—Tony Asaro, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.
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Dynamic Optimization is unique because users can provide varying levels of service across four different dimensions dynamically, at any time. You can move data back and forth between RAID levels, change the actual geometry of where the data is stored on the disk, change the type of disk the data is stored on and change the performance levels.
—Stephanie Balaouras, Senior Analyst, Yankee Group
EVALUATOR GROUP ON 3PAR REMOTE COPY AND DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION |
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3PAR offers a Utility Storage array with a number of unique capabilities. Their customers are enthusiastic about the product and the support that the company has delivered. [3PAR Remote Copy with Many-to-One Support] adds an additional economic value to what was already a simple, flexible solution.
—Randy Kerns, Senior Partner, Evaluator Group
[Dynamic Optimization is] an exciting announcement from 3PAR, the ability to give their customers as well as their customers' prospects the ability to have unified tiered storage with the ability to dynamically optimize it. Besides the cost of additional hardware that fine-tuning storage required in the past, downtime resulted as data was transferred from one array to another.
— Greg Schulz, Senior Analyst, Evaluator Group
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Highly virtualized and scalable arrays offer significant benefits for financial services and a viable path to the Real Time Infrastructure. Customers should evaluate the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of these solutions carefully.
— Roger Cox, Vice President of Research, Gartner Group
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EMC may be the big dog in storage, but there are better mousetraps (or equally compelling ones). I don't mean this as an endorsement, but plenty of people have found happiness and productivity with new vendors like 3PAR…
— Mark Schlack, VP of Editorial, Storage Media Group
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