Think Thin

If your company is like most, you may buy extra storage that, as it turns out, you may not need. It’s not your fault—traditional storage technologies force users to purchase storage as a precaution against uncertain growth and to avoid costly reconfigurations.

3PAR can save you money through Thin Provisioning—an efficient and effortless provisioning approach that is different from traditional storage technology. Thin Provisioning is a key Utility Storage feature that eliminates the inefficiencies that produce poor utilization results with traditional storage arrays. Thin Provisioning is based on dedicate-on-write technology, as opposed to the traditional dedicate-on-allocation approach.

The dedicate-on-write approach can drive utilization efficiency up to nearly 100% and helps to eliminate tremendous waste in upfront disk costs, electricity charges and floor space costs. More than 75% of our customers are choosing the Thin Provisioning option.

Since 3PAR Thin Provisioning provides a hard dollar return on investment, you can easily quantify your savings. For example, a leading Data Services Provider was able to save $136,000 in up-front capacity savings with 3PAR Thin Provisioning versus the monolithic alternative. The image below demonstrates the savings.

3PAR Utility Storage with Thin Provisioning is simple and efficient, which translates into real cost savings. You can find many examples of 3PAR customers' hard dollar savings in this issue of Plugged In.

Enjoy!

David Scott
President and CEO