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Alert Logic, a winner of the "Security Hot Companies 2007" Award from Info Security Products Guide, provides on-demand IT compliance and security services to customers across the United States. Alert Logic's clients depend on the reliability, scalability, and performance of its service. With solutions that include threat management, log management, and IT compliance automation, Alert Logic requires a highly available, high-performance storage platform to assure that its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms are "always on." Alert Logic selected 3PAR Utility Storage to consolidate and scale its mission-critical SaaS environment. Now Alert Logic's clustered MySQL databases and network file servers run on two highly virtualized 3PAR InServ S800 Storage Servers. With 3PAR, Alert Logic has been able to cut storage infrastructure costs by eliminating the cost and complexity of a redundant switching environment, avoid the need for a dedicated storage administrator, and reduce capacity costs by leveraging 3PAR's Fast RAID 5 technology for all of its applications.

3PAR Utility Storage offers the most stable blend of innovative features available today. But what really sets the InServ apart is the highly virtualized architecture, which actually improves performance as the system scales.

-Misha Govshteyn
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Vice President of IT, Alert Logic

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The Allant Group is a marketing optimization solution provider that leverages powerful data assets, applications, and highly skilled professionals to maximize marketing spend productivity for their clients. After conducting in-house evaluations of two other major storage suppliers' systems, Allant decided on the 3PAR InServ S800 Storage Server with 17 terabytes of capacity. Allant also purchased the 3PAR InForm Operating System for simplified virtualization capabilities and 3PAR Virtual Copy for advanced snapshot functionality. Since deploying their new storage system, Allant has moved all data from its legacy systems onto the 3PAR array, dramatically simplifying their IT operations.

3PAR enables us to be more efficient and more responsive at the same time. That is good for our customers, and it gives us a competitive advantage. Other vendors' storage solutions that we evaluated required complex additional applications or appliances. 3PAR was the obvious solution to simplify our storage services.

-Bob Hroma
Director of IT, Allant

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Ariba is the leading provider of spend management solutions. In advancing its Sofware as as Service (SaaS) model, Ariba found that its previous online storage hosting environment—based on monolithic arrays—was hampering progress and increasing costs. After evaluating traditional NAS and SAN vendors, Ariba selected 3PAR Utility Storage to deliver its on-demand hosted spend management software solution to customers worldwide. Ariba immediately experienced a dramatic reduction in costs and storage administration effort.

Compared to our previous storage environment, we've dramatically reduced costs with 3PAR Utility Storage.

-Dan Grillo
Director of Hosting at Ariba, Ariba, Inc.

Claria Corporation is a leader in online behavioral marketing, serving tens of millions of consumers and more than 1000 advertisers including Yahoo!, Dell, Travelocity.com, and Sprint. Claria publishes advertising messages for top-tier companies and agencies to tens of millions of consumers. Claria chose 3PAR to improve agility and reduce costs in their Solaris environment. In addition, with 3PAR Remote Copy, Claria was able to implement simple and affordable coast-to-coast disaster recovery replication.

3PAR Utility Storage technology allows us to flexibly manage our Solaris environment with significant cost reduction and quicker deployments. Additionally, we have used 3PAR in implementing disaster recovery replication coast-to-coast with simplicity and low cost.

-Oswald D'Sa
VP-Technical Operations/CIO, Claria Corporation

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ExactTarget, Inc. is a leading provider of on-demand email marketing software solutions. The company's suite of on-demand, one-to-one marketing applications enables clients to send business-critical and event-triggered communications to increase sales, optimize marketing investments, and strengthen customer relationships. ExactTarget's software powers permission-based email communications for thousands of organizations including: Expedia.com, USA TODAY, The Home Depot, Liberty Mutual Group, and Wellpoint, Inc. ExactTarget selected 3PAR InServ Storage Servers to support mission-critical Microsoft® SQL-based application services and permission-based, custom email delivery and tracking services. ExactTarget also chose 3PAR Thin Provisioning and 3PAR Dynamic Optimization based on their combined ability to improve capacity utilization over the data lifecycle.

We chose 3PAR for its industry-leading thin, non-disruptive data lifecycle management and, as a result of the platform's simplicity of operations, we've already demonstrated a 75% reduction in storage administration effort. We believe that our decision to invest in the 3PAR platform will cut our capacity and array purchase requirements by at least 50% as compared to other systems.

-Jim Saricos
Director of Data and Performance Management, ExactTarget

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GrayHair Software is a service provider to leading consumer credit issuers, publishers, and insurers. Through the real-time tracking of inbound and outbound mail across the United States, GrayHair allows customers to cut transaction costs, increase marketing effectiveness, and plan cash flows. By selecting 3PAR Utility Storage to simplify its high-performance, high-growth data infrastructure, GrayHair can now service its clients faster, more reliably, and at reduced cost. With 3PAR, GrayHair has also experienced a ten-fold improvement in database performance. According to GrayHair, its prior HP-based storage environment required "constant manipulation" and consumed 30% of it's IT resources. GrayHair now spends "zero time" managing its storage to maintain service levels.

With 3PAR, it's been set it and forget it. We no longer have to struggle with our storage in order to run our business, a service that helps our customers save millions of dollars a month.

-Cameron Bellamy
President and CEO, GrayHair Software

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NewsGator Technologies provides individuals, self-hosting corporations, and SaaS customers with scalable solutions for pulling value from the Web through customized delivery of RSS content. NewsGator supports its business with a multi-tier architecture that includes SQL Server 2008 and 3PAR Utility Storage as its primary data SAN. NewsGator benefits from the enhanced Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2008, which it uses for high availability.

3PAR already provides a reliable and easy-to-use consolidated storage platform for our Windows Server environment. With 3PAR’s support of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, we can now combine Microsoft’s most advanced operating system and database technology with our 3PAR Utility Storage platform to run our business with complete confidence.

-Glenn Berry
Database Architect, NewsGator Technologies

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OpSource delivers a complete Web operations solution for software as a service (SaaS) and Web companies. Providing everything but the application itself, OpSource is the only Web operations company whose customers pay only for what they sell, not for the resources they consume. OpSource purchased the 3PAR InServ S800 Storage Server to increase storage capability for their customers' SaaS applications. With 3PAR Thin Provisioning, OpSource can now deliver an On-Demand Business Model for their customers.

3PAR Utility Storage fits perfectly with our business model. We price our Optimal On-Demand SaaS enablement and delivery solution so that software companies pay only for the resources they need, as they need them. 3PAR allows us to acquire storage capacity in much the same way, as opposed to buying all the storage we expect our customers to use in the coming year and then having most of that resource sit around, paid for but unused, for most of the year.

-Treb Ryan
CEO, OpSource

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Silverpop is the leader in dynamic email marketing campaigns, ranked by Jupiter Research as the email service provider with the highest overall value for emailers with lists of over 150,000 recipients. Silverpop selected 3PAR Utility Storage with Dynamic Optimization to track and archive its mission-critical opt-in email campaigns. They selected two InServ S400 Storage Servers to support multiple Oracle® databases as well as custom applications across dozens of Solaris and Linux servers.

3PAR's tiered-storage approach allows us to support multiple service levels simultaneously for a fraction of the cost of competing solutions.

-Jerry Porter
VP of Production Operations, Silverpop

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Unique Solutions provides in-store promotion and inventory management tracking services to the retail industry. After selecting 3PAR as their storage solution, Unique Solutions realized immediate results—saving money, improving resource allocation, increasing performance, and reducing deployment time.

Before 3PAR my storage administrator spent 70% of his time managing our storage—now ongoing administration only takes 5% of his time. We initially considered going with a mid-range array from a brand leader, but chose 3PAR for better scalability, ease-of-use, and speed. With 3PAR we saved money immediately and were able to defer a $60K redundant switch purchase.

-Ben Mullis
Vice President of IT, Unique Solutions