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Buy 3PAR storage, they'll buy a carbon offset certificate

WTFSeriously... "Carbon Offsets" is a scam in itself. This is beyond insane. You want to be "green", that's fine with me, but once they start imposing mandatory carbon taxes on anyone that's still dumb enough to manufacture things in the United States, it will just be another hidden tax...

Tags: Desktops, 3PARData Inc., carbon tax, storage

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Buy 3PAR storage, they'll buy a carbon offset certificate

3PAR wants to be known as the storage vendor that wants you to use less storage. Of course, that means it wants you to use THEIR storage. Craig Nunes, vice president of marketing for 3PAR, figures that businesses in the United States typically buy four times the...

Tags: 3PARData Inc., Mary Kay, Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Datacenter Virtualization With Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Technology and 3PAR Utility Storage

Hyper-V is an optionally-enabled, hypervisor-based server virtualization feature of Windows Server 2008 that increases server infrastructure flexibility while saving time and reducing costs. 3PAR InServ Storage Servers complement Hyper-V by providing a virtualized storage platform to support Hyper-V virtualized servers. The resulting combination is a powerful virtualized compute platform that...

Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, 3PARData Inc., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

White papers 2009-03-01

Start Thin, Get Thin, and Stay Thin With Thin Provisioning Technology From Symantec and 3PAR

This white paper discusses the fundamental problem that thin provisioning was designed to address - that of allocated-but-unused storage. It explains the concepts behind thin provisioning and describes key benefits in detail. It examines 3PAR Thin Provisioning software and also discusses how, for applications already deployed on legacy storage, IT...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Provisioning, 3PARData Inc.

White papers 2009-02-01

Benefits of Deploying VMware Infrastructure on 3PAR Utility Storage

Using VMware? Then you need 3PAR Utility Storage. Combining server virtualization with highly virtualized storage from 3PAR allows you to increase overall utilization, provisioning agility, and administrative efficiency so you can get the most out of your VMware deployment while saving more money. Download this paper to learn why 3PAR...

Tags: Benefit, VMware Inc., 3PARData Inc., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-01-19

Wikibon Case Study: Virtualization Energizes Cal State University

Learn how Cal State University CIO John Charles averted a datacenter power crisis, reducing power consumption by 26%--from 67 kVA to 50 kVA--even after having adding more than twenty new applications. With a virtualized IT infrastructure built on VMware® and 3PAR® Utility Storage, this savvy CIO gave his datacenter a...

Tags: Virtualization, 3PARData Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2008-10-01

Making the Thin Provisioning Connection

Read this Illumanata paper to learn why datacenter efficiency has never been more critical than in these challenging economic times. Lean times call for thin storage, which is why Thin Provisioning technology is a "must have" for your datacenter. Getting thin and staying thin will enable you to do more...

Tags: Data Center, Provisioning, 3PARData Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-09-23

Have we misinterpreted the business value of the long tail?

I've been thinking about the economics of the long tail and its impact on the business of Silicon Valley's largest Internet companies and discovering some very interesting issues, which have lead me to some startling conclusions. But please check my math... My thinking about the long tail...

Tags: Long Tail, Data Storage, 3PARData Inc., Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Top Law Firm Relies on Storage From Network Appliance and 3PAR

One the top law firms in the United States represents clients in high-stakes litigation, complex financing and regulatory matters, government affairs, and corporate and technology transactions. With data growing about 30% annually, storage was increasingly complicated to manage. So the customer looked into storage solutions that would allow them to...

Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Law Firm, 3PARData Inc., NetApp, Storage, Litigation, Hardware, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-02-01

Taneja Group: Next-Gen Fibre Channel Storage Systems Market Forecast

The Fibre Channel storage market is undergoing significant architectural and technological transition as end user purchasing criteria shift to emphasize price-performance, energy efficiency, capacity optimization, and simplified storage management. A new class of system designs has emerged that offer a simpler, more efficient, high-performance alternative to traditional monolithic and dual-controller...

Tags: Fibre Channel Storage System, Fibre Channel, Taneja Group, 3PARData Inc., Fibre Channel Storage Market, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Ip storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-10-31

ESG Report: Thin Provisioning

ESG believes that Thin Provisioning is one of the most important yet misunderstood advancements within data storage. This report defines and discusses Thin Provisioning, its economic impact and how it works. Thin Provisioning minimizes the cumbersome task of storage provisioning while improving capacity utilization. The economic impact...

Tags: Provisioning, Storage System, 3PARData Inc., ESG, Thin Provisioning, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2006-04-01

Another reason most IT data centers are on the way out

A conversation about fine-grained virtualization in enterprise data storage might not sound very appealing. However, David Scott, CEO of 3PAR, managed to make it a very interesting topic of conversation and one that I'm sure a lot of CIOs will soon be having internally.We know that server utilization can be...

Tags: data storage, storage

Blog posts 2005-12-07

Storage Consolidation Pays Off Big for Priceline.com

This case study from 3PARdata highlights the growth-related issues that caused e-commerce giant Priceline.com to look for a storage solution that offered increased flexibility and higher utilization rates at a lower total cost of ownership TCO. The paper details the impressive results Priceline has achieved since consolidating its mission-critical, SAN-resident...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, 3PARData Inc., Priceline.com Inc., Roi/Tco, Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware

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