White Paper: 3PAR Utility Storage Benefits Summary

The growth and use of information has outpaced traditional storage technologies, whose fundamental designs are now 10 to 20 years old. Limited scalability and functionality have forced customers to cobble together homegrown storage infrastructures, with multiple layers of interlocking hardware and software. This perpetuates an escalating investment in storage management and SAN purchases, ultimately frustrating efforts to consolidate and achieve cost-efficiency.

3PAR Utility Storage represents an intelligent and highly functional disk array, whose benefits extend well beyond a traditional storage device and into the rest of the infrastructure. With breakthrough hardware and software innovations, 3PAR overcomes the complexities, cost, and functional limitations of current storage solutions. 3PAR helps to restore simplicity to opensystems on-line storage environments through a broadly scalable, highly efficient and controllable storage platform. Customers can leverage as many or as few advantages of Utility Storage as may be appropriate in their environment. The benefits of 3PAR Utility Storage can be grouped under the following categories:

• Reduced or eliminated Capital Expenditures
• Reduced or eliminated Operating Expense
• Enhanced, Accelerated, and Protected Application ROI