TRANSFORM YOUR DATA CENTER

3PAR customers are reducing their IT infrastructure costs and transforming their data centers into a business asset for their organizations by implementing Utility Storage.

GrayHair Software
Mail tracking firm speeds operations and cuts storage administration costs by 90%

By selecting the 3PAR InServ® Storage Server to simplify its high-performance, high-growth data infrastructure, GrayHair Software can now service its clients faster, more reliably and at reduced cost. Since the 3PAR deployment, GrayHair:

• Has reduced storage management time by more than 90%--from several hours per day to minutes or seconds.
  
• Has achieved ten-fold improvement in database performance and reliability.
• Can now meet service levels easily and consistently with the lowest possible management burden.
  
• Has shifted resources to higher-value or previously neglected activities.
  
• Has added 3 terabytes of capacity, simply and non-disruptively.

"We are out of business if we can't provide timely data. 3PAR's performance enhancements have made it possible for us to stop worrying about data delivery... Now we can grow our business in other areas."

—Cameron Bellamy, President and CEO, GrayHair Software

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Press Release
Case Study
Article: Byte and Switch
Article: Information Week

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SAVVIS Communications
Savvy about chargeback at SAVVIS

SAVVIS Communications is a leading provider of hosting, network and application services. After its purchase of the assets of Cable & Wireless America, it became the #2 hosting provider worldwide, second only to IBM.

Gartner, in its October 2004 Research Note on the Magic Quadrant for North American Web Hosting, proposes that "The market is changing from dedicating equipment to each customer and  charging by the piece of equipment to offering "virtualized' or 'utility computing' services that are priced based on usage … Providers that do not build application- or utility-based functionality will not experience revenue growth and will risk becoming extinct...SAVVIS is willing to experiment with the 'bleeding edge' of technology, and it is delivering virtualized offerings with utility elements.”

SAVVIS is leading the way as the first company to provide its customers with a Virtualized Services Delivery Platform (VSDP), a totally virutalized utility computing environment. This platform integrates several "utlity-like" technologies, including the 3PAR InServ Storage Server as the foundation.

With the VSDP, SAVVIS has cut its infrastructure costs by 50%. In fact, the model has worked so well here in the U.S. that SAVVIS recently expanded the model into Europe.

"While SAVVIS' Utility Platform [VSDP] is being used only to support its own customers, the model and lessons learned here should be of interest to all organizations pursuing 'virtual enterprise' strategies."

—William Fellows, The 451

For more information
Press Release: SAVVIS Chooses 3PAR
Press Release: European Expansion
Article: Byte and Switch

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