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3PAR Debuts In Visionary Quadrant For Midrange Enterprise Disk Arrays
Fremont, CA, US - August 3, 20043PAR®, the leading provider of Utility Storage, announced today that Gartner positioned the company in the visionary quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Midrange Enterprise Disk Arrays, 1H04(1), released on July 29, 2004.
The Gartner Magic Quadrant highlights the relative strengths of vendors in the midrange enterprise disk array marketplace worldwide and is a well-regarded tool for vendor selection. According to Gartner, visionaries have a clear vision of market direction and are focused on preparing for that, but they can still improve in terms of optimizing service delivery.
3PAR's mission is to make storage solutions simple and efficient. Its vision is to create worlds where information is exploited to its full potential. "When we set out five years ago to develop Utility Storage, complexity and inefficiency were in the crosshairs." said 3PAR CEO, David Scott. "We consider our presence in the Magic Quadrant shows we have turned vision into reality and strong customer acceptance demonstrates that 3PAR is delivering the promised benefits of Utility Computing."
3PAR Utility Storage is an intelligent enterprise storage array that allows companies to achieve more with less. It is the storage cornerstone of Utility Computing. 3PAR overcomes the complexities, cost, and functional limitations inherent in traditional storage systems. Leveraging the 3PAR InSpire® Architecture, customers can start with small and affordable deployments, provision service levels once, and scale within a single system to meet the most demanding projects, including storage consolidation and performance-intensive applications. Customers pay only for what they use.
Companies have cut twenty-five to fifty percent from their capital infrastructure purchases and reduced administrative burdens by fifty to ninety percent with 3PAR Utility Storage. These cost benefits have been achieved while improving service levels and sharing data more effectively. 3PAR customers include Fortune and Global 1000 enterprises including AIG, American Management Systems, Hitachi ULSI, Merrill Lynch, and VERITAS, as well as leading service providers like SAVVIS Communications and Matsushita NAiS-IS. More than 60% of 3PAR's customers have made repeat purchases.
An example of 3PAR's understanding of market direction is demonstrated through its advanced provisioning capability. 3PAR Thin Provisioning software allows IT to safely over-allocate purchased physical capacity and increase storage utilization rates to almost one hundred percent. By breaking the link between allocated and purchased capacity, 3PAR Thin Provisioning can cut capacity expenditures in half, and then ensure that future costs grow only with actual use. It lowers operating expenses by eliminating the powering, cooling, and housing of unnecessary disk drives. Storage can be allocated once, so subsequent provisioning complexity and workflow is eliminated. Not only can more applications be deployed at less cost, but applications can be deployed faster.
Gartner proclaimed in its May 7, 2004 research note titled Dynamic Volume Expansion: Not all arrays are Equal by April Adams and Robert Passmore, that "Thin provisioning provides the simplest and most flexible method for dynamically expanding volumes today."
For more information, visit www.gartner.com, and reference Research ID Number: M-23-1173 (Magic Quadrant for Midrange Enterprise Disk Arrays, 1H04) and TG-22-4994 (Dynamic Volume Expansion: Not All Arrays Are Equal).
(1)The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About 3PAR
3PAR® (NYSE: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, tightly clustered, and dynamically tiered storage arrays built for utility computing. Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR Utility Storage gives customers an alternative to traditional arrays by delivering resilient infrastructure with increased agility at a lower total cost to meet their rapidly changing business needs. As a pioneer of thin provisioning — a green technology developed to address storage underutilization and inefficiencies — 3PAR offers products designed to minimize power consumption and promote environmental responsibility. With 3PAR, customers have reduced the costs of allocated storage capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency. 3PAR Utility Storage is built to meet the demands of open systems consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management, and performance-intensive applications. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.
