3PAR Thin Provisioning Software

3PAR Thin Provisioning solves this underutilization problem by breaking the traditional linkages between allocated and purchased capacity. Leveraging 3PAR's dedicate-on-write capabilities, Thin Provisioning allows IT departments to safely allocate as much logical capacity to an application as is conceivably needed over its lifetime-once! Meanwhile, physical capacity is drawn from a common pool of purchased storage only on an as-needed basis. That is, only when an application truly requires capacity for its written data, is it drawn from the pool.

3PAR® is the leading provider of a new category of storage systems called Utility Storage. Unlike today's storage infrastructures that promote poor asset utilization and increased storage management complexity, 3PAR Utility Storage systems incorporate breakthrough software and hardware innovations to overcome the complexities, cost, and functional limitations of current storage architectures. 3PAR Thin Provisioning exemplifies these breakthrough capabilities.