3PAR Cloud-Agile Partners

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Attenda, the Always On Managed Services company, manages those vital applications that every business relies upon today to function effectively, allowing clients to selectively outsource their IT operations and re-focus on using IT to add strategic value to their business.

From day one Attenda has invested in developing an industry-leading operations platform. 3PAR Utility Storage provides us with superior business agility and unmatched storage flexibility, whatever our clients’ requests are. It has given us an edge over the competition and has accelerated our time to market while providing a real added value for our clients. In addition, our total cost of ownership is much lower with 3PAR due to the platform’s incredible ease of management combined with reduced power and floor space needs.

-Simon Hansford
VP of Products and Marketing, Attenda

Carrenza provides technical consultancy and enterprise hosting services to businesses with demanding communication needs. Its flagship cloud computing platform provides a truly scalable, flexible computing resource and is backed by advice and strategy direction from Carrenza’s consulting team.

Data Intensity is a Managed Service Provider (MSP) headquartered in the US which proactively monitors, manages, and hosts enterprise databases and applications, specializing in those from industry leaders such as Oracle^® and Microsoft^®.

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DataPipe provides application management, hosting, professional services, and security services for mid- to large-sized organizations in a range of vertical industries. As the first member of the 3PAR Cloud-Agile program to offer value-added 3PAR Cloud-Agile: ASSURED and 3PAR Cloud-Agile: SECURED services, DataPipe offers differentiated, cloud-based virtual private array (VPA) and disaster recovery (DR) services based on 3PAR Utility Storage as part of their Stratosphere^™ cloud services.

Our clients want the benefits of cloud computing but they don’t want the risk associated with unproven technologies. 3PAR Utility Storage is particularly strategic for our business as it allows our clients to reduce CAPEX expenditures on storage and enables us to deliver a fully managed, highly efficient storage solution with superior performance.

-Mark Cravotta
Vice President, Worldwide Sales, DataPipe

NS Solutions is a leading IT solution provider in Japan operating a utility computing service called absonne. NS Solutions provides integrated solutions which address customer needs for both business applications and systems platforms, offering end-to-end solutions including system consulting, planning, design, development, operation, and maintenance as well as total end-to-end outsourcing services. NS Solutions is adept at providing multi-vendor and mission-critical systems solutions as well as incorporating best-of-breed products and technologies to address customer needs.

Star’s on-demand computing and communication services help UK businesses to focus on their own strategic objectives by freeing them from the management burden, cost, and complexity of business technology. Star customers increase the value of their businesses by collaborating with and tapping into the expertise of a trusted partner.

Terremark Worldwide (NASDAQ:TMRK) is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry's most robust and advanced operations platform. Leveraging purpose-built datacenters in the United States, Europe, and Latin America and with access to massive and diverse network connectivity from more than 160 global carriers, Terremark delivers government, enterprise, and Web 2.0 customers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, cloud computing, and information security.

3PAR Utility Storage has been a foundational technology for Terremark. The agility and cost-efficiency that 3PAR Utility Storage has given our infrastructure has been strategic to our service offerings. As a charter member of the Cloud-Agile program, we look forward to working closely with 3PAR to further promote and enhance our portfolio of value-added cloud and managed storage services to better meet the changing needs of our customers.

-Jason Lochhead
CTO of Hosting Services, Terremark Worldwide

UCS Solutions is a leading provider of end-to-end business solutions across a full range of IT operations within the retail and wholesale sectors. UCS seamlessly combine new business and technology skills with extensive industry expertise to offer unique solutions that are cost-effective, innovative, and flexible.

Ultraspeed is a leading Managed Hosting company in the UK focused on delivering the very best personal service coupled with advanced technology platforms and unbeatable service levels. Ultraspeed has been delivering managed hosting services to a wide variety of customers—from FTSE 100 companies to digital agencies to government organizations—since 1998.

Verizon Business has built their on-demand storage service on 3PAR Utility Storage. The aim of Verizon Business is to help companies better manage and store their growing volume of corporate data. With their new pay-as-you-go service model, companies utilizing Verizon Business' Enterprise Hosting Services can store critical company information more easily and cost-effectively using Verizon Business' new shared infrastructure. This infrastructure leverages its extensive capabilities in server, IP network, and storage management.

As a charter member of the Cloud-Agile program and an early 3PAR customer, we are able to add enterprise-class utility storage capabilities quickly and efficiently to our cloud-based offering, Computing as a Service. This agility is particularly important for Verizon Business since it enables us to more flexibly serve our enterprise customers as they seek alternatives to traditional IT models.

-Michael Marcellin
Vice President of Verizon Business Global Managed Solutions, Verizon Business