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Industry Veteran Joins 3PAR as Company Expands Presence in Europe
FREMONT, CA — May 9, 2005
Following the company's remarkable worldwide growth over the past year, 3PAR, the leading provider of Utility Storage, announced today the expansion of its European operations with the appointment of John Taffinder as General Manager for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Taffinder, a highly accomplished senior executive and a well-known figure in the European storage industry, joins 3PAR's global sales management team and will report to Jim Dawson, Vice President of Worldwide Sales. At 3PAR, Taffinder will be responsible for the growth of the company's business within the EMEA market.
Taffinder joins 3PAR from Hitachi Data Systems, where until recently he held the top EMEA role of Executive Vice President and General Manager and was responsible for a team of approximately 1,000 people. Under Taffinder's direction, HDS successfully expanded its operations across EMEA and signed an average of one new customer each working day, leading to doubled revenues in a four year period.
"The demand for Utility Storage solutions is rapidly growing and the timingwas right for 3PAR to expand its EMEA team. John has the ideal combination ofskills to enable a rapid expansion of our market share in this region. His understandingof the different needs, challenges and customs that end users and partners ineach country have is a major benefit for us," said Jim Dawson, 3PAR VicePresident of Worldwide Sales. "John would be an incredible asset for anyhigh-tech company in Europe and we are excited that he has chosen to join the3PAR team."
"I was looking for a dynamic, fast-growing organization with solid credentialsand plenty of potential. With its focus on Utility Storage, 3PAR was the naturalchoice," said Taffinder, the new 3PAR General Manager for EMEA. "3PAR offersboth customers and the channel so much more than traditional storage vendors.I am thrilled to join such an exciting and innovative organization and I am lookingforward to strengthening the company's outreach in EMEA."
Taffinder, who holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from the University of Essex, UK and is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants, is based in the UK.
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.
