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At 3PAR, we don’t just design storage systems that are more energy efficient. We design utility storage that is more efficient, period. Sure it’s good to recycle, and it’s even better to reuse. But the best approach of all is to reduce. In fact, over the years we've helped our customers completely eliminate the purchase of more than 30 Petabytes of capacity. Based on a typical storage lifespan of five years, this adds up to more than $31.5 million in energy savings or 460,000 fewer barrels of oil. When combined with offsets purchased through our Carbon Neutral Storage Program, this amounts to preventing 175,000 tons of CO2 emissions, or the equivalent of removing 33,000 cars from the road for a year.
This is because 3PAR Utility Storage is like the hybrid car of the storage industry—it allows you to go further on fewer resources, and to do more with less. 3PAR customers require only 1 TB of 3PAR Utility Storage to achieve the same results as 2.5 TB of storage supplied by traditional vendors—the same vendors whose products are probably humming away in your datacenter right now, sucking up vital resources that you can’t afford to waste.
That’s right: traditional storage vendors are selling you more than twice the capacity you actually need. This additional capacity not only inflates your CAPEX, but also the OPEX associated with powering and cooling all of those unnecessary drives, not to mention the additional real estate, facilities costs, and administrative overhead. But perhaps the highest cost is the impact to our environment. That’s why, when executing to your green IT initiatives, you must not only take into account the power efficiency of the equipment you deploy, but its overall efficiency.
3PAR Utility Storage eliminates waste by not only boosting your capacity utilization, but by ensuring that empty space isn’t needlessly replicated. Our thin copy technologies address the root of the problem (capacity underutilization) to prevent making the same mistake, over and over, the way that traditional storage does when it copies empty capacity. It is this efficiency which makes 3PAR Virtual Copy and 3PAR Remote Copy software far superior to any other solutions available on the market today.
Even customers who do not take advantage of 3PAR’s unique thin technologies such as 3PAR Thin Provisioning, 3PAR Thin Conversion, and 3PAR Thin Persistence still benefit from built-in energy savings with 3PAR arrays. For example, a traditional monolithic storage system from a leading storage vendor requires 44% more power than a 3PAR InServ T-Class array that contains the same number of drives.
3PAR InServ arrays also offer two unique RAID hardware features designed to reduce your capacity overhead by leveraging the accelerated performance and Rapid RAID Rebuild capabilities of the 3PAR ASIC. 3PAR Fast RAID 5 and RAID MP (introducing Fast RAID 6 technology) boost RAID performance to within 10-15% of RAID 1 but with significantly less capacity overhead. In fact, Fast RAID 5 is recommended by Oracle® for use with Oracle Database deployments, where it has been demonstrated to reduce capacity and related energy required for RAID protection by 66 to 88% as compared to traditional storage.
Ecological responsibility has never been more important, not just to the environment but to the sustainability of your business and to helping you reign in datacenter costs. IDC estimates that in today’s datacenters, storage accounts for 37% of the total energy consumed. This is why, as you look at ways to reduce energy costs and lessen your carbon footprint, data storage should be at the top of your list.
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At 3PAR, we don’t just design storage systems that are more energy efficient. We design utility storage that is more efficient, period. Sure it’s good to recycle, and it’s even better to reuse. But the best approach of all is to reduce. In fact, over the years we've helped our customers completely eliminate the purchase of more than 30 Petabytes of capacity. Based on a typical storage lifespan of five years, this adds up to more than $31.5 million in energy savings or 460,000 fewer barrels of oil. When combined with offsets purchased through our Carbon Neutral Storage Program, this amounts to preventing 175,000 tons of CO2 emissions, or the equivalent of removing 33,000 cars from the road for a year.
This is because 3PAR Utility Storage is like the hybrid car of the storage industry—it allows you to go further on fewer resources, and to do more with less. 3PAR customers require only 1 TB of 3PAR Utility Storage to achieve the same results as 2.5 TB of storage supplied by traditional vendors—the same vendors whose products are probably humming away in your datacenter right now, sucking up vital resources that you can’t afford to waste.
That’s right: traditional storage vendors are selling you more than twice the capacity you actually need. This additional capacity not only inflates your CAPEX, but also the OPEX associated with powering and cooling all of those unnecessary drives, not to mention the additional real estate, facilities costs, and administrative overhead. But perhaps the highest cost is the impact to our environment. That’s why, when executing to your green IT initiatives, you must not only take into account the power efficiency of the equipment you deploy, but its overall efficiency.
3PAR Utility Storage eliminates waste by not only boosting your capacity utilization, but by ensuring that empty space isn’t needlessly replicated. Our thin copy technologies address the root of the problem (capacity underutilization) to prevent making the same mistake, over and over, the way that traditional storage does when it copies empty capacity. It is this efficiency which makes 3PAR Virtual Copy and 3PAR Remote Copy software far superior to any other solutions available on the market today.
Even customers who do not take advantage of 3PAR’s unique thin technologies such as 3PAR Thin Provisioning, 3PAR Thin Conversion, and 3PAR Thin Persistence still benefit from built-in energy savings with 3PAR arrays. For example, a traditional monolithic storage system from a leading storage vendor requires 44% more power than a 3PAR InServ T-Class array that contains the same number of drives.
3PAR InServ arrays also offer two unique RAID hardware features designed to reduce your capacity overhead by leveraging the accelerated performance and Rapid RAID Rebuild capabilities of the 3PAR ASIC. 3PAR Fast RAID 5 and RAID MP (introducing Fast RAID 6 technology) boost RAID performance to within 10-15% of RAID 1 but with significantly less capacity overhead. In fact, Fast RAID 5 is recommended by Oracle® for use with Oracle Database deployments, where it has been demonstrated to reduce capacity and related energy required for RAID protection by 66 to 88% as compared to traditional storage.
Ecological responsibility has never been more important, not just to the environment but to the sustainability of your business and to helping you reign in datacenter costs. IDC estimates that in today’s datacenters, storage accounts for 37% of the total energy consumed. This is why, as you look at ways to reduce energy costs and lessen your carbon footprint, data storage should be at the top of your list.
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