Issue 12: May 2009
LETTER FROM THE CEO, DAVID SCOTT
3PAR Celebrates a Decade of Helping Customers Do More with Less
2009 has already been a momentous year for 3PAR, despite being in the midst of an intensely challenging economic climate. We have not only continued to demonstrate solid momentum through this recession—the second downturn we've weathered in 10 years—but we have continued to thrive. This is why we were recently named by the San Jose Mercury News as the seventh fastest-growing company in Silicon Valley.
One secret to our success is continuing to offer pioneering new technologies such as our newly launched InServ F-Class Storage Server with Thin Built In™—the first-ever quad-controller array for the midrange and the fastest, smartest midrange storage array on the market.
However, groundbreaking engineering achievements are only one side of our story. Traditional storage vendors continue to attempt to repurpose legacy storage arrays with bolt-on features that simply cannot compare with the agility and efficiency of utility storage. Their problem is not just architectural, but also economic. Legacy storage vendors have always and will continue to stake their livelihoods on the ability to convince customers to throw more disks, and therefore more software and professional services, at their storage problems. That's not our approach. Instead, we show utility storage customers that they can indeed do more with less.
This year marks our first decade as the leading global provider of utility storage. We've continued to exercise the fiscal discipline that saw us through the dot-com bust. We've continued to invest strategically to grow our worldwide sales, support, and engineering organizations and to increase market share despite the current downturn. We have established ourselves as the utility storage platform of choice for 7 of the world's top 10 managed service providers and the de facto standard for today's most demanding cloud computing deployments. And we have set the stage for our future by continuing to invest in innovation.
As you read through this issue of Plugged In, I encourage you to look back on the past ten years and consider what the next decade may bring—chances are that we're already working on it.
Sincerely,
David Scott,
3PAR President and CEO
PRODUCT NEWS
Forget Midrange Storage Limitations with 3PAR
3PAR has thrown midrange storage limitations out the window with the 3PAR InServ® F-Class, revolutionizing midrange storage with the first quad-controller array for mid-sized deployments. Forget midrange storage limitations with the fastest, smartest midrange storage array according to SPC-1™ benchmark results—the same results that also determined the F-Class to have one of the best price-to-performance ratios of any array on the market, in any class.
The New InServ F-Class: a midrange storage revolution for lean times
- Buy 50% fewer arrays
- Reduce capacity, power, cooling, and floor space by up to 75%
- Reduce storage administration time by 90%
See the full F-Class SPC-1 results »
Watch the 3P video on StorageRap: Marc Farley's 'I Need an F-Class' »
Harness the Power of the Cloud with 3PAR + VMware
With 3PAR's support for VMware's recently-announced vSphere 4™ you can harness the power of the cloud within your organization. The combination of 3PAR and VMware is ideal for delivering Enterprise IT as a utility service via the private cloud. 3PAR is also the only vendor that supports VMware's unique adaptive queuing technology—available in VMware ESX 3.5 as well as vSphere 4.0—to give your virtualized environment greater scalability. Adaptive queuing support not only increases performance levels, but also the number of virtual machines supported by applications running on the ESX servers attached to your 3PAR arrays. The bar has been raised!
Read the press release »
Learn more about 3PAR and VMware »
MS Exchange Users: Get Thin without Giving In
Want to do more with less in your Microsoft Exchange environment? Results submitted to the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) for Exchange Server 2007 demonstrate not only the linear scalability of the 3PAR InServ T-Class array, but show that 3PAR Thin Provisioning increases capacity utilization without sacrificing performance. That's something traditional storage vendors cannot do with their bolt-on, chubby solutions.
See the full ESRP results »
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
Storming the Cloud with Utility Storage from 3PAR
Stormy weather has driven more and more enterprises to cloud computing in search of rainy day savings. Cloud computing is revolutionizing service delivery, and as the preferred storage provider to 7 of the top 10 revenue-generating MSPs, 3PAR has become synonymous with the cloud. Here's just a sampling of what some of our customers are doing with 3PAR Utility Storage in their clouds:
- Attenda, Europe's leading "always on" MSP, has chosen 3PAR for massive consolidation that allows them to remain competitive by passing on consolidation savings to customers.
Read the full story »
- Tickets.com has saved over a half a million dollars so far just by choosing 3PAR as the foundation for the ticketing industry's most innovative cloud computing platform.
Read the full story »
- SupplyScape has eliminated downtime and increased capacity utilization by 50% by deploying 3PAR Utility Storage to support SaaS-based cloud computing services that secure the global life sciences supply chain.
Read the full story »
- Leading women's online health portal LifeScript.com has deployed 3PAR Utility Storage to power its cloud computing delivery model for 30% less than their previous storage solution.
Read the full story »
Award-Winning 3PAR Customers Gain Props for Virtual Datacenters
3PAR customers are making waves with their innovative datacenter virtualization projects based on utility storage from 3PAR!
- Savvis is the first MSP to win the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) award. With more than 31 InServ arrays deployed worldwide, Savvis was recognized for its use of virtualization, cloud computing, and support process automation in delivering IT Infrastructure- and Software-as-a-Service on a global scale.
Read the full story »
- Cal State University East Bay was recently chosen by IDG's InfoWorld as one of the "Green 15" for deploying one of the year's 15 most innovative sustainability-focused IT initiatives.
Read the full story »
Wikibon Peer Insight: listen to CSUEB's Rich Avila talk about energy savings »
Read more about Green Storage from 3PAR»
Red Nose Day is the UK's largest national day of charity, culminating in an evening of television that this year pulled in half a million donations within a seven-hour period thanks to 3PAR and cloud-based Utility Computing Services (UCS) platform from Carrenza Hosting.
Learn more about Red Nose Day 2009 »
COMPANY NEWS
3PAR Named Seventh Fastest-Growing Company in Silicon Valley
3PAR debuted on the Silicon Valley 150—a list compiled annually by the San Jose Mercury News—as the seventh fastest-growing company in Silicon Valley. 3PAR had a staggering 83% growth rate for 2008—a year during which one-third of the companies on the list actually saw sales fall.
Read the press release»
See the full list»
Lean Times Call for...Global Expansion!?
While the global financial crisis has been taking its toll on traditional storage vendors, the economic downturn has increased demand for 3PAR's highly virtualized, cost- and energy-efficient storage arrays. To meet this demand, over the past year 3PAR has grown both geographically and vertically throughout EMEA—expanding operations by adding to our European team, opening new offices in the UK, and adding new partners in Europe, South Africa, and East Asia.
Read more about 3PAR's European expansion»
See a full list of 3PAR Alliance Partners»
Peter Slocum Bolsters Engineering Growth at 3PAR
Peter Slocum has joined 3PAR as the new VP of Engineering responsible for leading all development activity for 3PAR. With this addition, founder and former Engineering VP Jeff Price has joined Ashok Singal in the newly expanded office of the CTO.
Learn more»
EVENT UPDATE
VMware User Group
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
May 19, 2009
VMware Forum
Houston, Texas
May 19, 2009
Los Alamos Science & Technology Expo
Los Alamos, NM
May 20, 2009
VMware Forum
Minneapolis, MN
May 28, 2009
VMware User Group
Charlotte, North Carolina
May 29, 2009
NLIT Summit
Knoxville, TN
May 31–June 3, 2009
Storage Decisions
Chicago, IL
June 1 – 3, 2009
VMware Forum
New York, NY
July 23, 2009
Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit
Orlando, Florida
June 23-25, 2009
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