IMPROVED ROI

Thomas Weisel saves cash through 3PAR consolidation

Thomas Weisel Partners, a leading merchant bank, consolidated and connected over a dozen servers to a single 3PAR InServ S400 Storage Server within each of its San Francisco and New York data centers. As a result, Thomas Weisel has increased capacity utilization by 100% and cut the cost of implementing and managing its disaster recovery plan. The 3PAR consolidation saved the company not only the investment in a redundant, switched SAN environment, but also the resulting training expense and ongoing management that would typically be required for this type of infrastructure.

In concert with this storage consolidation project, multiple host applications were moved to Linux. The built-in and precisely tunable volume management functionality of the 3PAR InForm® Operating System saved the firm the cost and support of separate volume managers for its Linux host servers.

Thomas Weisel’s savings with 3PAR include:

• 95% fewer storage administration resources needed
• No more high-priced monolithic array premiums
• Utilization of allocated capacity went from 30% to nearly 100%

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Priceline.com consolidates mission-critical operations on 3PAR

Priceline.com, a leading online travel services company, deployed multiple 3PAR InServ Storage Servers to consolidate and protect all of its mission-critical and SAN-resident data.

Dramatic savings achieved by priceline.com include:

• Reduced admin time per terabyte by at least 50%
• Reduced power, space, and heat by 66%
• Reduced by 75% the number of SAN ports—saving $500 to $1,500 per port
• Reduced wasted storage by 20% to 40%

3PAR Utility Storage is the most cost-effective storage we’ve found to meet our critical performance and 99.999% availability objectives. By consolidating on 3PAR, we’ve reduced our storage administration by more than 50% and doubled our capacity utilization.

— Ron Rose,
Chief Information Officer,
Priceline.com

And, regarding ROI:

The original payback period that we estimated six months ago was a year and a half, and we expect to realize that by the end of the year.

— Ron Rose,
Chief Information Officer,
Priceline.com

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