3PAR InServ E200 Named Storage Products of the Year Awards Finalist for Disk and Disk Subsystems

FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- 3PAR(R), the leading provider of Utility Storage, announced today that the 3PAR InServ(R) E200 Storage Server has been selected as a finalist for the Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com "Storage Products of the Year" awards in the Disk and Disk Subsystems category. The InServ E200, launched in August 2006, delivers the unmatched simplicity and efficiency benefits of Utility Storage in a scaled-down architecture ideal for mid-size deployments.

The winners of the Storage Products of the Year awards will be announced on February 5, 2007. The awards are judged by the Storage magazine- SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants. The winners will be selected according to the following criteria: innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value.

The E200 is ideal for departmental, replicated site and remote data center deployments. For the first time, enterprises and service providers with mid- size projects can cost-effectively deploy a utility-class array. No longer do organizations have to compromise by accepting limitations inherent in most platforms that fit within mid-sized budgets. Leveraging the same 3PAR InForm(R) Operating System and software as the InServ S-Class, the E200 offers 100% common data management with 3PAR's high-end platform. In addition the E- Class features Thin Provisioning, tiered-storage options with Fibre Channel and Nearline disk drives, both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host connectivity, and N-way active-active, cache-coherent clustered controllers.

"The InServ E200 Storage Server gives us the unmatched simplicity and efficiency benefits of Utility Storage in a scaled-down architecture that meets our business requirements," said Thor Peterson, Director of IT at Clarium Capital Management, LLC. "We never imagined this class of storage could be so affordable."

  3PAR InServ E200 Storage Server benefits include:

   *    Remarkable Ease of Use. The E200 cuts storage administration time by
        up to 90% and application-tailored storage is provisioned in 15
        seconds. Automated Thin Provisioning enables a set it and forget it
        approach by allowing volumes to automatically draw capacity as
        needed from a shared capacity pool. Dynamic Optimization allows the
        E200 to non-disruptively convert data volumes from one service level
        to another with a single command, eliminating manual and disruptive
        change processes.
   *    Dollar-Stretching Efficiencies. 3PAR Thin Provisioning and Thin Copy
        technologies -- Virtual Copy and Remote Copy -- cut traditional
        capacity purchases by up to 50%, letting users purchase capacity for
        written data only. Fast RAID 5 reduces capacity purchases for data
        protection by 66-88%, affordable Nearline drives deliver support for
        archive applications and abundant host connectivity reduces costly
        SAN purchases.
   *    Multi-Dimensional Scalability. The E200 scales non-disruptively up
        to 128 drives and 63 terabytes. Customers can also non-disruptively
        configure up to 12 FC host ports plus 4 optional iSCSI ports for
        abundant, multi-protocol host connectivity. The E200 supports
        multiple drive classes for creating multiple storage tiers within a
        single, consolidated array.
   *    High-End Availability Features. The E200 features full hardware and
        software fault tolerance, non-disruptive upgrades, permanent cache
        protection for prolonged power failures, and rapid RAID rebuilds.
        With the E200, customers can enjoy enterprise-class disaster
        recovery with 3PAR Remote Copy, hundreds of space-efficient
        snapshots per volume with 3PAR Virtual Copy for rapid application
        recovery, and massively parallel and automatically load-balanced
        system performance, even under failure conditions.

For more information on the InServ E200 Storage Server, please visit 3PAR's website: http://www.3par.com/products/inservmodels.html.

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About 3PAR

3PAR is the leading provider of Utility Storage, a simple, efficient and massively scalable tiered-storage array for utility computing that lets customers serve more with less. 3PAR Utility Storage can cut an organization's Total Cost of Data by 50%. Capacity purchases and related costs can be cut by 75% while storage administration and associated expenses can be reduced by 90%. 3PAR Utility Storage is ideal for open systems storage consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management and performance-intensive applications.

3PAR is based in Fremont, California, and has offices in Bracknell, UK, Stuttgart, Germany, and Tokyo, Japan. The company's corporate headquarters are located at 4209 Technology Drive, Fremont, CA 94538. Phone: 510-413-5999, fax: 510-354-3070, email: salesinfo@3pardata.com, Web site: http://www.3par.com/.

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