3PAR Countdown: Driving storage utilization to new levels

The news is here, here and here.

3PAR is introducing four powerful technologies today to help our customers crush their cost of owning and operating storage.  Here is the rundown.

1. Thin Conversion.  Next time you are faced with a technology refresh, take advantage of Thin Conversion to convert your fat volumes on whatever storage you are using to thin volumes on 3PAR InServ arrays. You'll be glad you did.
2. Thin Copy Reclamation. Extend the life of your storage by reclaiming capacity that had been used for snapshot and remote copy purposes.  Try that with your EMC or HDS storage.
3. Thin Reclamation for Veritas Storage Foundation.  The ultimate recipe for efficient storage, requires both 3PAR InServ arrays and Veritas Storage Foundation.  Automated reclamation of storage based on file system intelligence.
4. Thin Persistence.  Transient data (high-volatility create/delete activity) is not thin friendly. Thin persistence addresses the problem of transient data by identifying vacant blocks and returning them to unallocated storage.

Comments

[Chris Fricke]

Ooooh - Thin Persistence... how long have I been bugging you about that? That's fantastic news and a great step towards a Thin Forever Data Center :)