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Fremont, CA , August 19, 2008-- 3PAR ® (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage , announced today that Web 2.0 social media company Demand Media ™ has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage to support its rapidly growing social media business. Demand Media uses its network of vertically-oriented Web properties to connect content creators and large audiences with advertisers. To improve infrastructure agility, storage scalability, and capacity utilization over the data lifecycle, the social media company has implemented multiple 3PAR InServ ® Storage Servers in addition to 3PAR Thin Provisioning and 3PAR Dynamic Optimization software. Demand Media has also chosen to deploy an entire virtual datacenter based on the 3cV blueprint , which combines 3PAR Utility Storage with products from HP and VMware ® to create a complete utility computing environment. Demand Media’s previous storage environment lacked flexibility and was difficult to scale in response to rapid busin...

This just in... Fremont, CA , February 19, 2008-- 3PAR ® (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage , announced today the introduction of "Nearline for Online," an innovative approach to cost-optimized storage. 3PAR Nearline for Online is designed to enable customers to deploy traditional Nearline drives--high-capacity, low-cost enterprise-class SATA--for all their applications, including demanding online applications that typically require premium Fibre Channel capacity. With Nearline for Online, 3PAR Utility Storage customers have the ability to meet service level requirements of both online and nearline applications with a single, consolidated, massively scalable system using only Nearline disk drive technology. "3PAR provides us with a simple and efficient tiered-storage platform upon which we can grow our business," said Tony Tarone, Director of Service Operations for Cedar Document Technologies. "The use of nearline capacity wi...

I like 3PAR guys for their excpetional and unique approach to storage challenges. So covering and watching them receive such honors is no surprise to me ;-) Fremont, CA , February 14, 2008-- 3PAR ® (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage , announced today that the 3PAR InServ ® S800 Storage Server was cited most frequently as a “Most Exciting Product in Use” by midsize enterprise storage end users in Wave 10 of the TheInfoPro’s ™ (TIP) Wave 10 Midsize Enterprise (MSE) Storage Study. In addition, 3PAR was cited as the leader in “Customer Fulfilment,” and in sustaining the highest level of customer loyalty, with 100% of current 3PAR users indicating they would not consider switching vendors. 3PAR was also cited as one of the top “Most Exciting Storage Vendors” for the midsize enterprise, which TIP defines as companies with revenues between $150 Million and $1 Billion. Many of 3PAR’s customers in this segment include service providers and Internet/Web 2.0 compa...

FREMONT, CA , February 12, 2008-- 3PAR ® (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage , announced today its 2008 Carbon Neutral Storage Initiative and published results from its 2007 program, which 3PAR estimates to have reduced carbon emissions equivalent to removing 2,300 cars from the road for the entire year. 3PAR’s Carbon Neutral Storage Initiative is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to green technology and is aimed at continuing the reduction of energy consumption and the environmental impact of storage in the datacenter. 3PAR’s Carbon Neutral Storage Initiative, the first of its kind when introduced last year, has achieved tremendous results in its first year. Through this program, 3PAR has purchased carbon credits to offset 4,367 metric tons of CO2 emissions, allowing 3PAR customers to deploy storage capacity that is effectively 100% carbon neutral. In addition, last year 3PAR awarded three of its customers--IAC, Edelman, and CACI--with the ...

Fremont, Calif. – January 31, 2008 – 3PAR Inc. (NYSE Arca: PAR), a leading global provider of utility storage, today reported results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2008 which ended December 31, 2007. Revenue for the third fiscal quarter was $30.8 million, an increase of 51% compared to revenue of $20.4 million for the same period a year ago and an increase of 10% compared to $28.0 million in the prior quarter, which ended September 30, 2007. For the third fiscal quarter, GAAP net loss was $1.9 million, or ($0.05) per share compared to GAAP net loss of $45,000, or ($0.00) per share for the same period in the prior year. Non-GAAP net loss, which excludes the impact of stock-based compensation expense, for the third fiscal quarter of 2008 was $664,000, or ($0.02) per share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $381,000, or $0.01 per share for the same period a year ago. “We are delighted with 3PAR’s strong revenue growth and excellent performance,” said David Scott, Chief Executi...

Traditional Storage: No Match for Growing Business Demands Thousands of organizations worldwide, including The Home Depot, Papa John's, Cold Stone Creamery and Careerbuilder.com, rely on the ExactTarget platform for their integrated email marketing needs. With nearly a billion outgoing emails each month, ExactTarget required a high performance, cost-effective storage environment that could keep pace, and deliver tiered storage to control the company's increasing quantity of data. With a growing customer base, the new environment would also need to address both demanding IOPS and latency requirements. Innovative, Autonomic Approach to Storage Provisioning and Optimization After considering storage platforms and conducting a rigorous performance evaluation, ExactTarget chose highly virtualized, clustered and modular 3PAR Utility Storage. ExactTarget found that 3PAR uniquely delivered two to four times the performance of similarly configured systems being considered from tradition...

Finally the Q&As are here. I spoke to Craig Nunes and we had a good talk about the role of storage in the fast changing virtual infrastructure. Here are the Q&As: 1. Please tell us a bit about 3PAR? 3PAR is the global leader in “utility storage.” Utility storage is a category of highly virtualized tiered-storage arrays built for utility computing deployments in the heart of the data center. 3PAR Utility Storage allows users to securely and reliably serve more with less. Organizations creating virtualized IT infrastructures for workload consolidation use 3PAR to reduce the cost of allocated storage capacity, storage administration, and the SAN infrastructure. As a pioneer of thin provisioning, 3PAR has disrupted the fundamental economics associated with primary storage and become a leader in minimizing power consumption and promoting environmental responsibility. Distinct advantages in simplicity, efficiency, and massive scalability make 3PAR utilit...

I chatted with 3PAR VP, Craig Nunes, and we chatted over several issues. The written Q&A will come soon. Hopefully tonight! Craig has been with 3PAR since the beginning, 3PAR was founded in 1999, and Craig was pulled on board in 2000. So we spoke to someone who really knows what 3PAR is and where it will be in the near future And today I'll be talking to our Marathon Technologies CTO , Jerald H Melnick and discuss Marathon, everrun and all they have to offer to the big great virtualization world. I did speak to Reflex VSA (CTO, Hezi Moore) and CatBird (Dir, Howard Fried) as well and those interviews will as well be published the minute I have them. Other planned interviews for 2007: - PanoLogic - VKernel - Vyatta So you if are interested in talking about your virtualization, data center or even any other emerging tehcnology strategy and product, just drop me a line at my gmail address. We'll do a thorough interview and will give you the visibility you desire and obviou...

Alert Logic selected 3PAR Utility Storage because the 3PAR InServ has a virtualized architecture that not only allows the SaaS provider to scale capacity online and non-disruptively, but also enables them to achieve higher levels of performance with every additional drive. As a result, Alert Logic has the ability to maintain a highly responsive online service while growing capacity to match rapid online data growth. With 3PAR, Alert Logic has been able to cut storage infrastructure costs by eliminating the cost and complexity of a redundant switching environment. By leveraging the abundant native connectivity of the 3PAR InServ S800 array, Alert Logic has implemented highly available direct connectivity to its MySQL and network file service hosts. Press Release here

I plan to talk to the 3PAR folks soon about this, for now here's the Press Statement! Fremont, CA , December 10, 2007— 3PAR ® (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage , announced today the introduction of 3cV, an innovative blueprint for the virtual datacenter. First coined by Deutsche Bank, a leading global bank, “3cV” stands for the combination of the 3PAR InServ® Storage Server, HP BladeSystem c-Class, and VMware® Infrastructure. These elements combine to form a complete utility computing offering that can enable customers to halve server, storage, and operational costs and to gain instant agility. “With 3cV, we have achieved remarkable gains in business agility and cost reduction for a broad range of applications including our property management system, databases, messaging, Web servers, and file servers,” said Rich Jackson, Vice President of Technology Operations at Hilton Grand Vacations. “With 3cV, we have quadrupled administrative efficiency a...

Hitachi added another chapter to its virtualization story by extending the thin provisioning feature of its high-end Universal Storage Platform V to externally attached storage systems from other vendors. HDS also added support for SATA drives and boosted USP V performance to more than 4 million IOPS. "At some point, we almost stop counting," said HDS chief scientist Claus Mikkelsen. HDS, which has shipped more than 7,300 virtual storage controllers to date, said Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software lets customers allocate virtual disk storage based on their anticipated future requirements without dedicating physical disk storage up front. If the need for additional physical disk arises, capacity can be purchased at a later time without disruption. Only the capacity that is required to hold the actual data is provisioned and replicated, requiring fewer physical disks and resulting in a lower carbon footprint. Link here.

This one came just in, I'm delivering it to you just how the 3PAR guys sent it to me ;): 3PAR®, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today 3PAR Virtual Domains, new virtual machine software for 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers that delivers secure access and improved storage services for different applications and user groups. 3PAR Virtual Domains enables organizations to deliver customized, secure, and even “self-serve” storage services to multiple users, applications, departments, and external customers on a shared infrastructure for workload consolidation. By providing secure, administrative segregation of users and hosts within a tiered, massively parallel 3PAR InServ Storage Server, individual user groups and applications are able to affordably achieve greater storage service levels (performance, availability, and functionality) than previously possible with dedicated workload infrastructures. 3PAR Virtual Domains is ideal for internal and external IT servic...

3PAR®, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today native support for lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP). Support for LDAP enables centralized user authentication and authorization using a standard protocol for managing access to IT resources. With 3PAR’s support for LDAP, customers are able to now integrate 3PAR Utility Storage--a simple, cost-efficient, and massively scalable storage platform—with standard, open enterprise directory services. The result is simplified security administration with centralized access control and identity management. “3PAR Utility Storage already provides us with a reliable, shared, and easy-to-use consolidated storage platform,” said Burzin Engineer, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at Shopzilla. "Now, with 3PAR support for LDAP, managing security commonly--across all our resources, including storage--is also simple and efficient.” Press Release