Product Description
3PAR invests in integrated, platform-specific solutions as well as technologies and partnerships to support key strategic IT initiatives. As a result, 3PAR offers a range of solutions for those deploying a utility computing environment with the goal of offering enterprise IT as a utility service.Solutions Include:
- Server Virtualization: Take server virtualization to the next power. The 3PAR Utility Storage platform meets the specific challenges of the virtual datacenter with a range of software and technologies unique to 3PAR and uniquely complementary to industry-leading server virtualization platforms including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer.
- Cloud Computing: Get the only storage platform built for the cloud. Whether you're a hosting provider looking to improve your time to revenue, a business looking to reduce CAPEX, or a large enterprise looking to build your own "private" cloud, there is a cloud computing solution powered by 3PAR technology to help your organization become more agile and efficient.
- Utility Computing: 3PAR Utility Storage combines with VMware vSphere and other server virtualization offerings to deliver a complete utility computing platform that creates cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. The"3cV" solution combines 3PAR Utility Storage with HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades and VMware vSphere to provide a proven blueprint for highly virtualized utility computing that offers transformative levels of agility and efficiency.
- Platform Solutions: 3PAR provides integrated, cost-effective solutions for operating environments such as Microsoft, Linux, and Sun Solaris as well as key applications such as Oracle Database, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SQL Server.
- IT Solutions: IT solutions from 3PAR improve and enable new capabilities within your IT environment through a uniquely simple and cost-effective approach to data consolidation, tiering, data protection, rapid online recovery, server provisioning, and file services.
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.
Advantages
Get Agile. Get Efficient. Get 3PAR.3PAR Utility Storage is the only storage platform that delivers the agility and efficiency you need for the modern datacenter. Instant scalability and fast, just-in-time provisioning mean you can grow to meet the changing needs of your business quickly and cost-effectively. This flexibility is not offered by any other platform on the market today. And with our efficient virtualized infrastructure, you can cut your Total Cost of Ownership for storage by up to 50%!
Get Agile. Adapt rapidly to meet changing business needs.
Get Efficient. Cut storage TCO by up to 50%.
Why We're Green
3PAR Virtual Technology Incentive Program Energy Rebates through PG&E:Through the 3PAR Virtual Technology Incentive Program (V-TIP), 3PAR customers can extend their energy cost savings by taking advantage of first-ever rebates being offered by PG&E for datacenter storage virtualization and thin provisioning projects. These PG&E rebates are based on the amount of energy savings achieved through storage virtualization and the use of 3PAR Thin Provisioning and other thin technologies from 3PAR.
3PAR Carbon Neutral Storage Program:
With the Carbon Neutral Storage program, 3PAR customers can effectively deploy 100% carbon neutral storage. Through this initiative, 3PAR augments the inherent energy efficiency of our Utility Storage platform by purchasing carbon offsets for every terabyte of disk capacity sold with 3PAR Thin Provisioning. Since the program's inception in 2007, 3PAR has purchased carbon credits to offset nearly 26,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions.