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3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today the introduction of 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software for autonomic, sub-volume storage tiering with 3PAR InServ® F-Class and T-Class Storage Servers. In addition, 3PAR announced support for the STEC MACH8IOPS Solid State Drive (SSD), a new class of cost- and power-efficient SSDs. With this announcement, 3PAR has become the first high-end storage array vendor to deliver autonomic storage tiering for enterprise and cloud datacenters. The combination of 3PAR Adaptive Optimization, 3PAR SSDs, and the massively parallel, highly virtualized InServ Storage Server allows 3PAR customers to meet service level targets for approximately 30% lower cost than with Fibre Channel drives alone.
Meet Service Level Targets at a Lower Cost
3PAR’s autonomic, fine-grained approach to service level optimization was designed to reduce enterprise and cloud datacenter costs by delivering the right Quality of Service (QoS) to the right data at the right time — non-disruptively and on an ongoing basis. Adaptive optimization takes place at the sub-volume level, so InServ arrays using SSDs require fewer of these premium drives to meet even the most stringent performance targets. With 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software, InServ arrays are able to achieve desired service levels by combining multiple storage tiers — using any combination of SSD, Fibre Channel, and Nearline (enterprise SATA) drives — within a single volume for a lower overall cost per gigabyte than Fibre Channel-only configurations.
“The efficiency of combining fine-grained data movement at the sub-volume level with the use of SSDs and Nearline is anticipated to help us meet our service level objectives within a smaller footprint and for a lower total cost,” said Nicholas Ferguson, Senior Infrastructure Architect at Nephila Capital. “In addition, we have calculated that incorporating SSDs into our InServ array results in operational savings, since power and cooling requirements with SSDs are far less than spinning media.”
The combination of 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software and SSDs uniquely capitalizes on several key features built into the highly virtualized 3PAR InSpire® Architecture. These features include: a built-in, sub-volume data movement engine; a Mesh-Active cluster that works with wide striping to balance the high performance of SSD resources across all controllers, CPUs, and ports; a caching architecture for tiered storage that has been enhanced for SSDs; and extensive historical reporting capabilities.
“Solid State Drive technology has not only unlocked new levels of performance within a smaller carbon footprint, but it has created the opportunity for the industry to rethink existing tiered storage paradigms,” said Scott Stetzer, Vice President of Technical Marketing, STEC. “By combining Adaptive Optimization with leading-edge STEC Solid State Drive technology on energy-efficient, ‘green’ storage arrays, 3PAR has taken a highly innovative approach to both performance and cost optimization for the enterprise.”
Increase Agility with New Autonomic Management Capability
3PAR Adaptive Optimization was designed to help organizations achieve the most efficient distribution of data over the application lifecycle, without administrator intervention. The software intelligently monitors sub-volume level performance, then applies user-configurable policies that autonomically and non-disruptively rebalance a workload across tiers to continually and flexibly meet changing application demands. At the same time, Adaptive Optimization minimizes the risk of user-level impact through non-disruptive sub-volume data movement technology, which has been proven over years of use, coupled with administrator controls that incorporate additional policy override mechanisms.
3PAR Adaptive Optimization software also includes Quality of Service (QoS) gradients that can be used to bias data movement within a profile based on specific performance or cost objectives. A QoS gradient accelerates or decelerates data movement toward a particular class of resources so the user can better meet service level and cost objectives. For example, a performance gradient can be used for data with high service level demands, such as a seasonal order management application. As workloads begin to spike (such as when Black Friday or Cyber Monday approaches), the gradient will rapidly and autonomically move data to high performance resources and maintain it there until after the activity has declined.
“3PAR’s autonomic storage tiering gives users the freedom to apply policies flexibly, on a per-application basis, so that only applications with changing performance characteristics use Adaptive Optimization technology, while other more stable data is left in place,” said Laura DuBois, IDC Program Director, Storage Software. “This enables 3PAR customers to safely configure multiple storage tiering profiles on a single, highly virtualized InServ array for greater flexibility, increased consolidation, and fewer equipment purchases.”
“The combination of Adaptive Optimization with SSDs extends 3PAR’s leadership in autonomic storage management,” said David Scott, 3PAR President and CEO. “We believe that bringing autonomic storage tiering to enterprise and cloud datacenters promises to not only reduce costs and deliver additional green benefits, but to increase storage infrastructure agility and the ability to handle changing and unpredictable workloads in virtualized environments.”
3PAR Adaptive Optimization software is orderable immediately. SSDs for the 3PAR InServ will be orderable next quarter and are compatible with all InServ F-Class and T-Class arrays running the latest version of the 3PAR InForm® Operating System. 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software is an optional product that starts at $1,400 and requires 3PAR System Reporter software, version 2.7 or newer. Pricing for SSDs starts at $22,400 per InServ array.
About 3PAR
3PAR® (NYSE: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized and dynamically tiered storage arrays built for public and private cloud computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground up to be agile and efficient to address the limitations of traditional storage arrays for utility infrastructures. As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our products to reduce power consumption to help companies meet their green computing initiatives, and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR customers have used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server and storage utilization, and to scale and adapt flexibly in response to continuous growth and changing business needs. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.
© 2010 3PAR Inc. All rights reserved. 3PAR, the 3PAR logo, Serving Information, InServ, InForm, InSpire, and Thin Built In are all trademarks or registered trademarks of 3PAR Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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The Armada Group, a leading Silicon Valley technology consulting firm, announced today that Vasanthan Dasan has joined Armada’s executive staff as Chief Technology Officer and Executive VP of Engineering. Mr. Dasan comes to The Armada Group from Sun Microsystems where he served as the Chief Technologist for Sun’s Cloud Computing practice, responsible for providing global technical strategy and execution in the arena of cloud computing.
“Vasa brings an impressive depth of real-world enterprise business consulting experience and technical expertise to The Armada Group, especially in the Virtualization, Service Oriented Architecture, and Cloud Computing arenas” said Jeff Tavangar, Armada’s President and Chief Executive. “Customers expect Armada to be on the leading edge of major industry trends. Vasa’s addition to the team will give our customers’ access to the strategic advisory services they need to cut through the cloud hype, and make informed decisions when it comes to selection, implementation, and integration of a wide variety of cloud-based technologies.”
The new CTO position will have direct management responsibility for The Armada Group’s Smart Infrastructure engineering and IT consulting delivery teams, which provide cloud computing, virtualization and SOA strategy and implementation services to Fortune 500 clients, emerging technology companies, and cloud service providers.
Mr. Dasan’s 17-year work history in the realm of engineering services is extensive. While at Sun, he served as Chief Technologist for Sun’s emerging Cloud Computing practice, Chief Technologist for the $5 billion dollar per year Sun Services Business Unit and, in his role as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun, served as a trusted advisor to leading global enterprises. Prior to Sun, Dasan held key engineering positions at Intergraph and Hewlett Packard.
“Cloud computing is at an inflection point as it climbs towards mainstream adoption,” said Dasan. “With its deep customer relationships and world-class technical talent, The Armada Group is uniquely poised to help drive that adoption and I am excited to join an experienced team.”
About The Armada Group
Since 1995, The Armada Group has been a premier Silicon Valley-based professional services firm that helps companies implement their next generation technology strategy. As a trusted advisor to leading global technology companies such as Cisco and eBay, Armada delivers the people and advice to build smart, scalable technology infrastructure that leverages the best practices, technology and business models to promote company growth.
For more information about The Armada Group, please visit www.thearmadagroup.com or connect with us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/thearmadagroup), Twitter (http://twitter.com/TheArmadaGroup) or LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/companies/the-armada-group).
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3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that AudienceScience has reduced its storage total cost of ownership (TCO) by nearly 50% as a result of deploying 3PAR Utility Storage in its VMware vSphere™ environment. By replacing legacy storage with the 3PAR InServ® T-Class Storage Server, AudienceScience reduced the amount of storage capacity required to support server virtualization by 83%. In addition, AudienceScience anticipates a 44% reduction in storage TCO over the next three years based on several factors, including a 50% reduction in storage footprint and power requirements, a 10X performance increase for block- and file-based applications, and a 78% increase in storage capacity utilization with 3PAR Utility Storage.
“As the leading provider of online audience-targeted advertising, our company continues to experience tremendous growth. As we began developing our plans for supporting significant capacity in the coming months, we looked at the price of maintaining our existing storage over the next three years and determined that, for the same cost, we could purchase the 3PAR T-Class array outright,” said Brandon Mason VP of Technology at AudienceScience. “This combined savings, coupled with technical benefits such as high availability and increased performance, made the move an easy decision.”
Since deploying 3PAR, AudienceScience has enjoyed 100% storage uptime. Due to the performance and reliability of the InServ T-Class, AudienceScience has increased virtual machine (VM) density per physical server, retired racks of existing servers used for testing, and collapsed physical servers used for (VM) onto a single blade enclosure for significant space and power savings. The market researcher even has the headroom to double the raw storage capacity of its 3PAR array without increasing its datacenter floor space footprint.
With 3PAR Thin Provisioning software, AudienceScience has dramatically reduced storage capacity requirements, since physical capacity is now allocated on an as-needed basis and is only consumed when vSphere writes to a thin provisioned storage volume. 3PAR Thin Provisioning has not only enabled AudienceScience to eliminate wasted space when presenting storage to ESX hosts, but net usable space has more than doubled as utilization has gone from 50% with legacy storage to 89% with 3PAR.
3PAR Dynamic Optimization, combined with 3PAR Thin Provisioning, has yielded a 78% increase in storage capacity utilization for AudienceScience. By using Dynamic Optimization to dynamically and nondisruptively convert Fast RAID 5 (3+1) volumes to Fast RAID 5 (5+1) volumes, AudienceScience saved 22% on capacity alone. By implementing file services using the 3PAR array for backend storage, AudienceScience’s storage environment — which uses only cost-efficient SATA drives — now supports both block- and file-based storage and delivers better performance to applications than its previous environment.
“AudienceScience empowers marketers with the intelligence and control to execute effective global campaigns,” said David Scott, 3PAR President and CEO. “Accessing 200 billion data insights into 386 million people worldwide, data storage is absolutely integral to AudienceScience’s business. By helping to control datacenter costs and increase ROI — particularly with VMware vSphere — 3PAR has enabled AudienceScience to become more agile and efficient.”
About AudienceScience
AudienceScience technology provides a gateway enabling universal access to audiences. This integrated audience platform, The Audience Gateway, drives digital media success. Accessing 200 billion data insights into 386 million people worldwide, AudienceScience empowers marketers with the intelligence and control to execute effective global campaigns. Since 2003, AudienceScience has delivered over 50,000 targeted campaigns for clients including American Airlines, Financial Times, Gannett, New York Times Digital, NikkeiNet, SKECHERS, and Wall Street Journal Digital. For more information, please visit www.audiencescience.com.
About 3PAR
3PAR® (NYSE: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized and dynamically tiered storage arrays built for public and private cloud computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground up to be agile and efficient to address the limitations of traditional storage arrays for utility infrastructures. As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our products to reduce power consumption to help companies meet their green computing initiatives, and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR customers have used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server and storage utilization, and to scale and adapt flexibly in response to continuous growth and changing business needs. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.
© 2010 3PAR Inc. All rights reserved. 3PAR, the 3PAR logo, Serving Information, InServ, InForm, InSpire, and Thin Built In are all trademarks or registered trademarks of 3PAR Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the data center and to the cloud, and EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) — the world leader in information infrastructure solutions — today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for VMware to acquire certain software products and expertise from EMC’s Ionix IT management business, including solutions aimed at delivering improved management and deployment of servers and applications in a virtualized data center.
“Customers are increasingly leveraging virtualization as the foundation for modern IT architectures and their path to Cloud Computing,” said Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer, VMware. “Essential to this evolution is the ability to provide visibility and compliance from down to the underlying physical infrastructure. The acquisition of these Ionix products and expertise promises to further establish VMware vCenter as the next generation management platform for private cloud infrastructures.”
The all-cash transaction of up to $200 million is expected to close in the second calendar quarter of 2010, and is not expected to have a material impact on either EMC’s or VMware’s previous expectations for 2010.
Under the terms of the agreement, VMware will acquire all technology and intellectual property of FastScale, Application Discovery Manager, Server Configuration Manager and Service Manager and will maintain engineering, marketing, sales and support operations in the United States, Europe, Israel, India and Australia. As part of the agreement, EMC will retain the Ionix brand and have full reseller rights to continue to offer customers the products acquired by VMware.
“EMC Ionix has focused on helping customers simplify and automate IT management in order to accelerate their journey to the private cloud,” said Pat Gelsinger, President and COO, Information Infrastructure Products, EMC Corporation. “The storage and network infrastructure is a critical building block for realizing the benefits of a private cloud. EMC will continue to focus on ground-breaking Ionix management capabilities for the information infrastructure — including network, storage, and Vblock solutions. By focusing EMC efforts on these areas and partnering with VMware to advance their vCenter management strategy, we can jointly help our mutual customers more rapidly realize the full benefits of cloud computing.”
The acquired EMC products and expertise will complement existing VMware development efforts and expand the VMware vCenter product family with capabilities to meet stringent compliance standards in a dynamic virtualized environment. This new capability will provide a holistic view of configuration compliance of complete IT services from underlying physical assets to applications. VMware plans to further optimize the acquired products for dynamic, VMware vSphere-based cloud infrastructure, to deliver unparalleled visibility, control and simplicity of enterprise IT management.
The VMware vCenter product family will continue to focus on reducing the operational burden and cost of IT management while protecting customers’ investments in existing management solutions. VMware will continue to work closely with key management partners, including EMC, to provide integrated solutions and interoperability between the entire VMware vCenter product family and management partner solutions in support of heterogeneous environments.
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
About VMware
VMware delivers solutions for business infrastructure virtualization that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform — VMware vSphere™ — customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, more than 170,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com
EMC and Ionix are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. VMware, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
Forward Looking Statement
Statements made in this press release which are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements and are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements relate, but are not limited, to, expectations for the consummation of the acquisition of certain EMC Ionix assets by VMware, the impact of the transaction on EMC and VMware 2010 financial results, customer use of virtualization and VMware vCenter as a foundation and platform for cloud computing, the integration of Ionix products with existing VMware products and development efforts and future plans for Ionix and VMware vSphere-based products. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) the impact of macroeconomic conditions on demand for new and innovative IT solutions, (ii) our customers’ ability to transition to and implement new technologies, (iii) the uncertainty of customer acceptance of emerging technology initiatives; (iv) rapid technological and market changes in virtualization software and cloud-based IT solutions; (v) VMware’s ability to successfully integrate Ionix products and businesses into its current products and businesses; and (vi) satisfaction of closing conditions for the transaction. These forward looking statements are based on current expectations and are subject to uncertainties and changes in condition, significance, value and effect as well as other risks detailed in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent reports on Form 10-Q and Form 10-K and current reports on Form 8-K that VMware and EMC may file from time to time. VMware and EMC disclaim any obligation, except as required by law, to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
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VMware, Inc.
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Craig Librett
EMC Corporation
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Virtual Bridges, developers of the VERDE™ suite for desktop virtualization, and ZSL, a leading ISV and global software solutions and services provider, today announced a worldwide reseller agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the Virtual Bridges VERDE suite will be an integral component of ZSL’s PowerCube DaaS (Desktop as a Service) packaged service offering.
VERDE 3.0, announced in December 2009, is the only solution available today which runs in both networked and disconnected environments. In addition, VERDE uniquely offers the ability to run Linux and Windows guest sessions, enabling significant operating cost reductions over Windows-only environments. In partnership with the IBM Client for Smart Work and Canonical’s Ubuntu server and desktop offerings, VERDE also provides the choice of opting for a lower-cost cloud computing alternative.
“With its unrivaled ability to lower desktop TCO, improve security and compliance as well as drive organizational agility, Virtual Bridges VERDE was the logical selection as the desktop virtualization engine for PowerCube,” said Shiv Kumar, Executive Vice President of ZSL.
PowerCube, launched in January at the 15th annual Lotusphere, was recognized as a finalist for the IBM Lotus Awards recognizing exceptional IBM PartnerWorld members, in the category of Best CTO Award. ZSL’s PowerCube DaaS is a virtualized desktop environment powered by IBM’s Client for Smart Work running on Linux desktops and virtually enabled using VERDE and available as private and public cloud offering and as on-premise model. ZSL offers PowerCube DaaS with suite of services that includes end- user segmentation, TCO analysis, BPM-based role identification and SOA to application migration, pilot and production deployment.
“We are delighted to join forces with ZSL, long recognized for its work with emerging technology platforms focused on reducing TCO and driving high-value ROI,” said Jim Curtin, president and chief executive officer of Virtual Bridges. “This shared mission will enable our partnership to accelerate the adoption of virtualized desktop environments at a critical juncture when many organizations are analyzing the implications of Windows® 7 migration in their environments.”
The $65B worldwide desktop virtualization market represents a tremendous opportunity for both Virtual Bridges and ZSL to expand revenue models and go-to-market strategies. Offering unprecedented operating and capital expense reduction, attractive to enterprises and SMBs alike, PowerCube with VERDE can dramatically reduce the total cost of desktop ownership by more than 50 percent over commercial desktops, with a return on investment most often in less than 12 months.
Currently, Virtual Bridges offers its product suite through a network of more than 40 partners. Today’s announcement marks a major step toward realizing its aggressive partner network development strategy. To learn more about joining Virtual Bridges’ rapidly expanding partner network, click here.
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Virtual Bridges VERDE 3.0 is the industry’s most comprehensive Desktop Virtualization solution that
helps organizations deliver Desktop-as-a-managed service. The VERDE solution lets enterprises
transform their desktop TCO by simplifying desktop management, improving security and compliance by
centralizing the administration of desktop images and data, and increasing the organizational agility and
productivity by quickly providing desktop and application access to end users on any client machine (PC,
Mac, Linux, thin client, home computer or on a portable drive) and any time.
About Virtual Bridges
Virtual Bridges, Inc. develops desktop virtualization solutions for enterprise, small-to-medium and managed- service- provider businesses to transform desktop total cost of ownership, increase security and compliance by centralizing the administration of desktop images and data, and increase organizational agility by quickly providing desktop and application access to end users on any client machine. Venture-backed Virtual Bridges is headquartered in Austin, Texas. http://vbridges.com
About ZSL
ZSL is a global technology integrator and business solution provider based in Edison, NJ with more than 3,000 employees worldwide, focused in developing and delivering enterprise IT solutions and services using the emerging technology platforms to keep the TCO low and ROI high. ZSL is a pioneer in business and technology solutions, innovations, has expertise in providing Onshore, Offshore & Near shore technology solutions and services to the enterprises worldwide.
ZSL has been recognized and listed in CRN Fast Growth 100 for the year 2009 and ranked 245th among North America’s Top 500 Technology Integrators in VARBusiness 500 list and also won “Top Technology Practices” Award for Excellence in “Greenware Computing”. To learn more about ZSL’s offerings, please visit http://www.zslinc.com/
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