3PAR Plugged In October 2004

Utility Storage—Making Storage Simple and Efficient | Issue 2: October 2004





	Plugged In Home
	Letter from the CEO

	Customer Spotlight
	Utility Detective

	3PAR News
	Awards & Benchmarks


	Expert Opinions



	Think Thin If your company is like most, you probably buy more storage capacity than you actually need. 3PAR Thin Provisioning can change that, making your data center much more cost effective. >Full Story



	Gartner Magic Quadrant 3PAR debuts in visionary quadrant for midrange enterprise disk array. >Gartner Report IDC on Storage Storage software sees momentum. >Full story Enterprise Strategy Group Applauds 3PAR Thin Provisioning maximizes storage utilization. >Full story



	Storage Networking World Booth #C6 Orlando, Florida October 25-28 SuperComputing 2004 Pittsburg, PA November 6-12 Oracle Open World Moscone Center, San Francisco December 5-9

Transform Your Data Center: Drive Cost and Complexity Out
Find out how customers like GrayHair Software and SAVVIS Communications have cut their storage administration costs by 90% or more. >Full story

Case Studies

		GrayHair Software

		SAVVIS

	Utility Computing vs. Utility Storage: What's the Difference ? A short primer on utility computing and storage. >Full story

Gartner Magic Quadrant
3PAR debuts in Visionary Quadrant. >Full story

A Marriage Made in The UK
Computacenter, a leading IT and IT Services Provider in the UK, selected 3PAR's Utility Storage platform as the foundation for its services-oriented computing model. >Full story

Storage for Linux
Deploying Linux-based applications is as simple as taking a picture. >Full story

Virtualization Rolls into Europe
3PAR Customer SAVVIS Communications expands utility computing into Europe. >Full story

3PAR in the News

MicroScope: Utility Computing to Grow in Popularity
Computer Business Review: Bucking the Trend
Linux Today: 3PAR Snapshots Your Data
SNS Europe: 3PAR and ComputacenterTeam
Datamation: 3PAR Utility Storage

The Cream of the Crop
3PAR makes Computer Business Review's list of the top 10 influential vendors of 2004. >Full story

3PAR and Oracle Integrate Technologies
Two companies prove value of 3PAR Thin Provisioning and Oracle Database 10g. The combined solution significantly simplifies database and storage management, and greatly improves storage utilization for Oracle databases. >Full story