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3PAR Utility Storage Now Offered for Highly-Available HP-UX Deployments
Simple and Efficient Storage Alternative Available to HP Serviceguard Customers
FREMONT, CA, December 5, 2006
3PAR®, the leading provider of Utility Storage, announced today 3PAR InServ® Storage Server support for HP Serviceguard. Serviceguard is the leading high-availability software platform from HP that provides automatic failover capabilities for clustered HP-UX servers. For the first time, HP Serviceguard customers can deploy 3PAR Utility Storage, a simple, cost-efficient and massively scalable storage platform to complement their mission-critical HP-UX environments.
"We rely on HP Serviceguard with HP-UX and 3PAR to support our mission-critical Oracle® infrastructure, which is central to our On-Demand Enterprise and Ariba Supplier Network offerings," said Dan Grillo, Director of Hosting at Ariba. "With 3PAR, we no longer have to trade-off simplicity and efficiency in order to get scalability and high availability in our storage."
Customers deploy the highly available HP Serviceguard to avoid lost revenue, dissatisfaction and even damage to reputation. Such deployments often include costly monolithic storage systems in an attempt to provide high levels of storage performance, scalability and high availability. On the other hand, if customers consider more affordable modular storage alternatives, they face increased downtime risk to application service levels. 3PAR Utility Storage resolves this monolithic-versus-modular dilemma with an always-on, massively scalable, clustered architecture that offers high and predictable levels of performance, even under failure conditions.
"3PAR's announcement is good news for customers who require the safety of high availability, but also want the simplicity and efficiency of utility storage," said Yankee Group Senior Analyst Sal Capizzi. "The support of HP Serviceguard by 3PAR Utility Storage is a very important step in the convergence of two extremely important technologies and delivers the best of both worlds."
"3PAR eliminates the customary compromises customers must make between traditional modular or monolithic storage," said David Scott, 3PAR President and CEO. "For customers who require high availability on HP platforms, 3PAR Utility Storage opens the door to even higher levels of storage simplicity."
3PAR InServ Storage Server support for HP Serviceguard is available for HP Integrity (Itanium) and HP 9000 (PA-RISC) server platforms, including HP Superdome.
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.
