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3PAR Countdown: Storage Reclamation with Oracle

Here is the news:

3PAR storage can now reclaim storage space from Oracle 10g and 11g databases using Oracle's Storage Reclamation Utility and 3PAR's Thin Persistence.

3PAR Countdown: Bateman Engineering in South Africa

The news is here.

It's gratifying to see our international business growing. Yesterday we announced our first South African Utility Storage customer, Bateman Engineering, who worked with our Channel Partner, SYSDBA there. 

3PAR Countdown: AO & SSDs

The news is here,  and    here,     and here.

3PAR announced its storage tiering technology today with the introduction of our Adaptive Optimization (AO) software and with support for flash SSDs. 

There's probably going to be a lot of discussion about storage tiering and AO in the weeks to come, so stay tuned.

3PAR Countdown: New Plug-Ins for vSphere and vCenter Server

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3PAR Countdown: 3PAR's Thin Guarantee Program

The news is here.



Very easy & straightforward.  Start fat and move to thin, efficient storage on a 3PAR F or T Class system.

For more information on 3PAR's Thin Guarantee Program, check out the page on 3PAR's web site here.

 

3PAR Countdown: 3PAR Expands Cloud Agile

Here is the news:

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A complete list of our Cloud Agile Partners is here.

A Countdown Happy Holidays video from 3PAR and the SWCSA

3PAR Countdown: Policy Advisor

The news is here.  Get a more in-depth view of Policy Advisor here.

3PAR customers have used Dynamic Optimization to re-balance storage volumes across multiple tiers of storage since 2005.  Our Policy Advisor software utility helps them make greater use of Dynamic Optimization by analyzing volume data layouts in their 3PAR arrays and generating the commands to move volumes to more appropriate storage resources. Customers can choose to run those commands as a batch process or enter them manually.

3PAR Countdown: Autonomic Groups

3PAR announced its new server cluster provisioning feature today - Autonomic Groups. The idea is to manage the clustered servers and the storage they use as sets of resources.  All members of the group inherit connections from the group, eliminating the drudgery and errors associated with repeating provisioning steps over and over again for all servers and storage volumes.

3PAR Countdown: Resiliency with performance

All systems need contingencies - all the better if they can be built in. Unfortunately, failure mode and disaster operations usually means performance is sacrificed.  In today's world - especially if you are providing cloud services - degraded storage performance means you are going to have serious business issues to contend with too.

Today 3PAR announced three new capabilities for our arrays that maintain high performance levels for our storage systems should you experience a failure our outage. The full story is here:

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.

3PAR Countdown: Attenda first in Europe to start Assured and Secured services

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3PAR Countdown: Horizon Data Center Solutions and their FlexSafe Cloud

When Horizon Data Center Solutions went looking for storage to support their new FlexSafe Cloud service they chose 3PAR.  Here's the story.

3PAR Countdown: Exchange Service Provider LiveOffice saves buku bucks with 3PAR storage

The news is here:  In addition to saving serious scratch with a 3PAR clustered storage array with reservationless thin provisioning, LiveOffice uses 3PAR's Virtual Copy software to quickly and easily restore their customer's Exchange mailboxes.

3PAR Countdown: The 3PAR Exanet partnership

The news is here  and  here.   3PAR customers wanting to know more about Exanet might want to look at this ESG Labs report (PDF file) that was done in October 2008. Check it out.