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3PAR Thin Provisioning software is a green technology that has allowed customers to cut disk capacity, energy, and floor space costs by as much as 75%. According to Frost & Sullivan, "3PAR Thin Provisioning helps in providing a high return on IT investment by enabling a greater number of projects at a reduced cost."
With 3PAR Thin Provisioning, capacity is dedicated and configured autonomically and in small, reservationless increments within a massively scalable array-enabling customers to provision storage simply and efficiently. By allowing the one-time, safe overallocation of physical capacity, 3PAR Thin Provisioning lets organisations provision virtual capacity to applications once and purchase physical capacity only as applications truly require it for written data. 3PAR Thin Provisioning has solved the serious issue of poor capacity utilisation for numerous 3PAR customers-a problem that has lead enterprises to report unacceptably low utilisation rates.
The award given to 3PAR by Frost & Sullivan for 3PAR Thin Provisioning software follows 3PAR's recent announcement of the new 3PAR InServ T-Class Storage Server, the industry's first storage array with silicon-based "thin" technologies embedded into the array's hardware. The 3PAR Gen3 ASICs inside the T-Class arrays feature a Thin Built In design developed by 3PAR to increase capacity utilisation while maintaining high service levels. This unique hardware architecture offers a silicon-based mechanism to support fat-to-thin volume conversions that promise to boost capacity utilisation by removing allocated but unused space from traditional volumes.
"3PAR has become the de facto standard for thin provisioning and we are honoured by the recognition from Frost & Sullivan for developing and driving this transformational technology within our industry," said Craig Nunes, Vice President of Marketing for 3PAR.
"And although the storage industry is beginning to respond with chubby, bolt-on substitutes, real capacity utilisation benefits can only be delivered by a platform that was built from the ground up with thin provisioning in mind."
In choosing recipients for its Technology Innovation Award recipient, Frost & Sullivan's analyst team tracks innovation in key hi-tech markets. In addition, the selection process includes primary participant interviews and extensive primary and secondary research via the "bottom-up" approach. The analyst team develops a short list of candidates based on a set of qualitative and quantitative measurements. The analysts also consider the pace of the research and technology innovation and the significance or potential relevance of the innovation to the overall industry. The ultimate award recipient is chosen after thorough evaluation of this research.
About Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognise companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, partners with clients to accelerate their growth. The company's TEAM Research, Growth Consulting and Growth Team Membership empower clients to create a growth-focused culture that generates, evaluates and implements effective growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan employs over 45 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 30 offices on six continents.
About 3PAR
3PAR (NYSE Arca: PAR | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, tightly clustered, and dynamically tiered storage arrays built for utility computing. Organisations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualised IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR Utility Storage gives customers an alternative to traditional arrays by delivering resilient infrastructure with increased agility at a lower total cost to meet their rapidly changing business needs. As a pioneer of thin provisioning-a green technology developed to address storage underutilisation and inefficiencies-3PAR offers products designed to minimise power consumption and promote environmental responsibility. With 3PAR, customers have reduced the costs of allocated storage capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency. 3PAR Utility Storage is built to meet the demands of open systems consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management, and performance-intensive applications.
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