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Storage:
3PAR Secures $32 Million In
Financing
3PAR, a leading provider of utility storage, announced that it has added
$32
million in a fourth financing round. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, one
of Silicon Valley's oldest venture partnerships. Menlo joins fellow venture
capital firms Mayfield and Worldview Technology Partners, and high technology
leaders Oracle, Sun and VERITAS as 3PAR investors. The round was
oversubscribed, and included significant participation from 3PAR's existing
investors.
The funds raised in this round will finance further expansion into the
United
Kingdom, Europe and Asia. In 2003, 3PAR announced partnership agreements with
Source Consulting and CSF group in the United Kingdom.
"What attracted us to 3PAR was the company's big name customer traction,
proven product, excellent customer satisfaction, and a solid path to
profitability," said Mark Siegel of Menlo Ventures, and 3PAR's newly appointed
board member. "3PAR is delivering utility computing capabilities today to a
number of large global accounts, and we were impressed by their customers'
enthusiastic endorsements."
3PAR customers include 17 Fortune 1,000/Global 1,000 companies and major
government agencies in the United States, United Kingdom and Japan. American
International Group (AIG), American Management Systems (AMS), Hitachi ULSI,
Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Matsushita, NIWS (a Nomura-IBM joint venture),
Unique Solutions, VERITAS and Merrill Lynch are some of the companies that
have deployed 3PAR utility storage. More than half of 3PAR's customers have
already made repeat purchases, indicating their satisfaction with the value
utility storage can deliver.
Investors are recognizing that utility computing represents the emerging IT
infrastructure wave, as evidenced by the mergers, acquisitions and investments
made by both venture firms and large IT vendors over the past several months.
While the major enterprise storage vendors are forced to point to futures,
3PAR is delivering the storage cornerstone of utility computing today through
its proven utility storage platform. 3PAR's marquee utility storage
deployments substantiate this fact. The company is well positioned to capture
IT spending on utility computing using its first mover advantage.
"Three major platform elements are required for utility computing:
utility-capable server, networking and storage platforms," said David Scott,
president and CEO of 3PAR. "Our successes to date with large enterprise
customers demonstrate that 3PAR is the leading choice for the utility storage
element. This successful financing round validates that our investors
agree."
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