LETTER FROM THE CEO, DAVID SCOTT

Building a Foundation for Cloud Computing
3PAR^® has always been an innovative company that looks to key trends when developing products to meet the needs of our customers—not just in the short term, but as they evolve and grow their businesses. This may be why lately I’ve received an increasing number of questions regarding cloud computing and its significance for 3PAR. My reaction is usually the same: I’m glad you asked. This is precisely the right question to be asking 3PAR, and at precisely the right time.

Let me explain. 3PAR sees the increased interest in cloud computing services as driven by the desire to move enterprise IT costs to a variable basis that can be aligned more closely to actual business performance. We also see in this trend evidence that companies are realizing that owning some core IT infrastructure elements may not provide the competitive advantage it may have in the past. To us it is clear that, as with self-service computing models in next-generation enterprise datacenters, the strongest and most efficient foundation for these new cloud computing implementations is one that gives organizations the ability to build cost-effective and shareable virtualized IT infrastructures. And with the 3PAR Utility Storage platform, we have already created a storage building block optimized to do just this.

3PAR has already become a strategic storage platform supplier to many of the leading players in the B2B external service provider segment as they create virtualized infrastructures to support the application of cloud computing. But beyond this, we view any movement towards delivering enterprise IT as a utility service through leveraging the combination of server and storage virtualization as further validation of our value proposition. We see the industry has been forever changed by the shift toward delivering enterprise IT as a utility service and we are excited to see how this shift is playing itself out through a variety of IT service delivery models that suit diverse business needs.

Aren’t you glad you asked? I hope this issue of Plugged In holds many great insights into the value that utility storage can bring to your organization—regardless of the service delivery model you employ.

Sincerely,
David Scott,
3PAR President and CEO

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CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT

NASA Ames Uses 3PAR in the Search for Distant Planets
NASA Ames Research Center has chosen 3PAR as its storage provider for a mission to send the Kepler Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun in search of planets in solar systems outside our own. Chris Middour, Deputy Manager for the Kepler Operations Science Center: “We simply can't predict our ultimate storage needs at this time, but the agility, resilience, and scalability of 3PAR's technology gives us confidence in our storage infrastructure—no matter how large our data needs grow."
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3PAR Utility Storage Quenches NewsGator’s Thirst for Scalable SaaS
“With 3PAR's support of Windows^® Server 2008 and SQL Server^® 2008, we can now combine Microsoft's most advanced operating system and database technology with our 3PAR Utility Storage platform to run our business with complete confidence,” said Glenn Berry, Database Architect for NewsGator Technologies.
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COMPANY NEWS

3PAR and PG&E Turn Up the Heat on Energy Savings
Another industry first for 3PAR, our Virtual Technology Incentive Program (V-TIP) combines the built-in energy-saving benefits of 3PAR Utility Storage with energy rebates from PG&E.
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A New Era for 3PAR.com
If you haven’t already, be sure to visit us at www.3PAR.com to experience our new website, which has been completely rearchitected to reflect the simplicity and ease of use that you’ve come to expect from 3PAR!
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3PAR Expands in Asia and into Africa
3PAR is on the move with two additions to our global sales and support network: 

• In South Africa, 3PAR and SYSDBA have teamed up to fill the need for next-generation storage and to address power challenges in a country facing rising energy costs anticipated to double over the next twelve months.
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• In Japan, 3PAR and CTC have partnered to meet the demand for green storage and virtual infrastructure solutions. CTC’s network of 4000 sales engineers and 100 maintenance centers expands 3PAR’s market coverage and value delivery opportunities across Japan.
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PRODUCT NEWS

How Did We Manage That?
Just when you thought 3PAR Utility Storage couldn’t get any simpler, we bring you the 3PAR InForm^® Management Console, a totally re-architected management interface designed to deliver even greater visibility, control, and ease of management for 3PAR InServ^® Storage Servers.
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3PAR + VMware = Simplicity and Automation²
Are you a joint 3PAR and VMware customer? If not, maybe you should be: our innovative joint solutions are bringing simplicity and automation to a datacenter near you!

• 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop is designed to give VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) customers the power to automatically provision hundreds of high-performance virtual desktops that consume only a fraction of the bandwidth and storage capacity required with traditional storage.
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• 3PAR Replication Adapter software combines the benefits of 3PAR Remote Copy (remote data replication) and VMware Site Recovery Manager (disaster recovery management and automation) to deliver end-to-end disaster recovery for utility computing environments.
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EVENT UPDATE

IDC's Virtualization & Green Data Centers Roadshow
23 September
Bratislava, Slovakia
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VMware Forum
25 September
London, England
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3PAR Virtualisation Roadshow
30 September
Frankfurt, Germany

01 October
Stuttgart, Germany

08 October
Munich, Germany

VMware Forum
08 October
Paris, France
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Oracle User Conference
Sun City, South Africa
13-15 October
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Storage Expo
15-16 October
London, Olympia
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VMware Forum
22 October
Dusseldorf, Germany
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SNW Europe
27-31 October
Frankfurt Germany
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VMware Forum
13 November
Warsaw, Poland
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