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3PAR In Visionary Quadrant For Midrange Enterprise Disk Arrays

3PAR, a provider of utility storage, announced that Gartner positioned the company in the visionary quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Midrange Enterprise Disk Arrays, 1H04, released on July 29.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant highlights the relative strengths of vendors in the midrange enterprise disk array marketplace worldwide and is a well-regarded tool for vendor selection. According to Gartner, visionaries have a clear vision of market direction and are focused on preparing for that, but they can still improve in terms of optimizing service delivery.

3PAR's mission is to make storage solutions simple and efficient. Its vision is to create worlds where information is exploited to its full potential. "When we set out five years ago to develop Utility Storage, complexity and inefficiency were in the crosshairs," said 3PAR CEO David Scott. "We consider our presence in the Magic Quadrant shows we have turned vision into reality and strong customer acceptance demonstrates that 3PAR is delivering the promised benefits of utility computing."

3PAR Utility Storage is an intelligent enterprise storage array that allows companies to achieve more with less. It is the storage cornerstone of utility computing. 3PAR overcomes the complexities, cost and functional limitations inherent in traditional storage systems. Leveraging the 3PAR InSpire Architecture, customers can start with small and affordable deployments, provision service levels once, and scale within a single system to meet the most demanding projects, including storage consolidation and performance-intensive applications. Customers pay only for what they use.

Companies have cut 25 to 50 percent from their capital infrastructure purchases and reduced administrative burdens by fifty to ninety percent with 3PAR Utility Storage. These cost benefits have been achieved while improving service levels and sharing data more effectively. 3PAR customers include Fortune and Global 1000 enterprises including AIG, American Management Systems, Hitachi ULSI, Merrill Lynch and VERITAS, as well as leading service providers like SAVVIS Communications and Matsushita NAiS-IS. More than 60 percent of 3PAR's customers have made repeat purchases.

An example of 3PAR's understanding of market direction is demonstrated through its advanced provisioning capability. 3PAR Thin Provisioning software allows IT to safely over-allocate purchased physical capacity and increase storage utilization rates to almost one hundred percent. By breaking the link between allocated and purchased capacity, 3PAR Thin Provisioning can cut capacity expenditures in half, and then ensure that future costs grow only with actual use. It lowers operating expenses by eliminating the powering, cooling and housing of unnecessary disk drives. Storage can be allocated once, so subsequent provisioning complexity and workflow is eliminated. Not only can more applications be deployed at less cost, but applications can be deployed faster.