"3PAR, with its innovative high scalability, clustered architecture and rich storage management capabilities, has proven itself to be a leading vendor of advanced storage virtualization technology...We think that the combination of efficiency, simplicity, and scalability that 3PAR brings to bear are the perfect complement to a virtualized server environment."

Taneja Group

"The cost-efficiencies and management benefits that thin-provisioning and quality of storage service features bring to the data center will within the next few years make them 'must have' features with IT organizations experiencing high rates of data growth."

Stan Zaffos
Gartner Research VP
Enterprise Servers & Storage

"...Smoking hot storage companies include 3PAR, with 150 customers and giant revenues."

Steve Duplessie,
Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, at
Storage Networking World,
October 2005, Orlando, Florida

"The 3PAR InServ is an Enterprise-class SAN storage system competiting with the EMC DMX, HDS USP and IBM DS8000. Talk about a David versus Goliath scenario. Yet 3PAR has been winning deal after deal. They are making great progress and are becoming that fourth vendor for Enterprise-class SAN storage- just like what Fox did to ABC, CBS and NBC. 3PAR is the Fox of the storage industry. 3PAR can build a billion dollar business just going after the Enterprise market. And in many ways its a smarter strategy then going after the mid-market. The average selling price is higher. They know exactly who the customers are. There are less customers to go after so they can have a direct model that is effective. 3PAR has outlasted the upstarts and has graduated from a startup to an emerging vendor."

Tony Asaro, blog June 6, 2006
3PAR and BlueArc - The Senior Storage Startups

"While many IT professionals are seeking to cost-optimize their storage environment, some strategies surrounding ILM lead to more complexity. Solutions such as 3PAR's Utility DLM provide users with a simple, efficient option to manage data of varying importance and performance requirements."

Dave Reinsel
Director of Storage Research
IDC

"3PAR is in use and we really like how simple it is for provisioning—you don't have to be a rocket scientist in LUN magic to run it."

Anonymous Fortune 1000 End User
TheInfoPro Storage Study Wave 8 (Fall 2006)

"3PAR is increasingly being mentioned as an alternative to EMC, HDS, and IBM for low cost/high density solutions. Their over-committed LUN approach is cited as an efficient way to increase utilization."

Commentary TheInfoPro Storage Study Wave 6 (Fall 2005)

"We are taking a look right now at the alternatives to the big storage vendors, and starting next week we will be evaluating storage from 3PAR. Just based on the technical presentation I saw, it looks very much like a DMX or a Symmetrix in its architecture but at the fraction of the cost. It makes me wonder a little bit why they are not everywhere. If this evaluation is successful, it would be deployed in a very major way in a Grid Computing environment at our organization."

Fortune 1000 Financial Services Company
Source:
TheInfoPro Storage Study Wave 6 (Fall 2005)

"The 3PAR Utility VTL integrates seamlessly and securely with just about any existing backup appliance, whether it is from Computer Associates, HP, IBM, Legato, or Veritas [Symantec]. It is certified for maximum compatibility to preserve the investment that your enterprise has already made in backup and recovery policies. If your enterprise is looking to reduce costs of IT ownership through consolidation, take a look at the fruit of this union. It may provide the scalable, secure, multi-tier storage solution that you need."

Dave Reine
Director, Enterprise Systems
The Clipper Group