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 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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American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS®) is a global business and IT consulting firm servicing the public sector, financial services, and communications industries. As a Fortune 1000 enterprise with nearly $1 billion in annual revenues, AMS supports scores of mission-critical applications for its more than 6,400 employees. After considering solutions from several traditional suppliers, AMS invested in 3PAR Utility Storage because it provided the competitive advantage AMS sought. 3PAR is now deployed as the primary open-systems storage solution at AMS.
We compete in a very dynamic industry and 3PAR Utility Storage empowers us to respond in record time. We no longer have to think about storage, it's just there when we need it.
Don Hirsch
Vice President of IT
AMS
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Ariba, Inc. 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.
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Cbeyond is a voice and broadband Internet provider built exclusively to serve small businesses using Voice over Internet Protocol technology. With over 15,000 customers in Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Houston and Chicago, Cbeyond delivers an integrated product that offers high-speed T-1 Internet access, local and long distance voice services, web hosting, email, conference calling and VPN.
The Atlanta-based firm selected 3PAR InServ Storage Servers for its mission-critical operational support systems and its test and development environment based on performance, scalability, simplicity and unmatched cost effectiveness. Cbeyond was able to purchase half the capacity and fewer arrays versus competing vendors' solutions, to avoid the investment of two full time storage administrators, to eliminate switching and host volume management expense for 50 hosts, and to increase Oracle availability by taking and retaining affordable hourly snapshots of their Oracle database non-disruptively.
We have achieved substantial savings with 3PAR's Thin Provisioning. 3PAR Thin Provisioning allowed us to permanently eliminate the waste associated with unused allocated capacity and has dramatically simplified storage provisioning. Since 3PAR, I can't think of the last time we worried about storage.
Allen Thomas
Senior Director of System Operations
Cbeyond
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Freudenberg IT (FIT) provides IT services to small and medium-sized businesses, specializing in automotive supply, discrete manufacturing, logistics providers, roll based industry and technical trade. As an international full-service IT provider, FIT implements, optimizes, and operates IT systems in SAP environments.
Prior to purchasing 3PAR Utility Storage, FIT was dissatisfied with one of their traditional storage suppliers, citing performance issues and poor reliability as the cause. FIT decided to replace this vendor with 3PAR Utility Storage, starting first with the InServ® E200 Storage Server. FIT has since deployed another four InServ arrays, bringing their total 3PAR deployment to five arrays--four in Germany and one in the U.S. With the InServ Storage Server, FIT can add capacity at any time--seamlessly--while the 3PAR InForm® OS makes management of the storage system simple and efficient.
By using 3PAR's Fast RAID 5, FIT also benefits from hardware acceleration that enables the business to achieve performance comparable to that of traditional RAID 1 mirroring yet with a 66 to 88% improvement in storage utilization.
3PAR Utility Storage represents a great investment for us since we can implement storage virtualization for our Windows and VMware platforms internationally from one central point, and without any hardware or software upgrade. We have also found the 3PAR arrays require much fewer management resources since the time and effort to provision storage is negligible as compared to traditional storage systems.
Oliver Koban
Manager Business Unit Hosting International
Freudenberg IT
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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™, the SaaS experts, is solely focused on providing the operational infrastructure and ongoing services that enable software companies to deliver and maintain the highest quality Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. By choosing OpSource as a SaaS partner, the software company is free from infrastructure management and can focus on improving its applications and finding new customers. OpSource's Optimal On-Demand(sm) infrastructure enables software companies to deploy SaaS quickly, effortlessly, and without risk.
OpSource purchased the 3PAR InServ S800 to increase its 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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Matsushita Electric Works Information Systems, a leading provider of consulting, integration, outsourcing, and network solutions, purchased the 3PAR InServ® Storage Server to provide better storage services to its consulting organizations.
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RagingWire™ Telecommunications purchased the 3PAR InServ Storage Server because Utility Storage was a requirement within their advanced, next-generation datacenter environment. The 3PAR system has been deployed in a class A datacenter at RagingWire.
A key differentiator for RagingWire is having the ability to offer highly customized and flexible IT services that meet the business needs of large, enterprise-class companies. Our purchase of the 3PAR InServ Storage Server provides us with the simplified storage management needed to rapidly respond to our clients' requests in seconds rather than hours or days, cost-effectively scale to their growing needs, and deliver simple provisioning and administration at very competitive costs.
Yatish Mishra
President and Chief Technology Officer
RagingWire Telecommunications, Inc.
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SAVVIS is one of dozens of enterprises that have selected 3PAR Utility Storage as the right choice for their utility computing deployments. The 3PAR InServ Storage System is the storage cornerstone of the SAVVIS virtualized IT services delivery platform. Internal and external service providers alike can consolidate and scale multiple applications on a single, easily managed storage utility with customized service levels for each application or user group. The SAVVIS has deployed 3PAR Utility Storage on a global basis.
SAVVIS Communications (NASDAQ: SVVS) is a global IT Utility that leads the industry in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable hosting, network, and application services. SAVVIS' strategic approach combines the use of virtualization technology, a utility services model, and automated software management and provisioning systems. This allows customers to focus on their core business while SAVVIS ensures the quality of their IT infrastructure. With its recent acquisition of the assets of Cable & Wireless America, SAVVIS becomes one of the worlds' largest providers of IP computing services and the world's third largest provider of hosting services. For more information about SAVVIS, visit: http://www.savvis.net.
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UniquE Solutions provides in-store promotion and inventory management tracking services to the retail industry. As an emerging company, their existing storage environment was very complex. Since selecting 3PAR as their storage solution, UniquE 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
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USinternetworking, Inc. (USi), an AT&T company, delivers application outsourcing, remote management, professional services, ISV enablement, eBusiness development and hosting, and information security and risk management services to more than 150 world-class organizations in over 30 countries. USi's clients have access to a broad, diversified portfolio of service offerings. USi's TopLineISVTM program gives Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) the immediate advantage of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) by delivering their software to a larger client base through USi's hosted model.
3PAR has a unique on-demand virtualization technology, which maps to our business strategy and allows us to virtualize our inventory and oversubscribe.
Toby Ford
Chief Technical Officer
USinternetworking
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Verizon Business has built their on-demand storage service on 3PAR Utility Storage. Their aim is to help companies better manage and store their growing volume of corporate data. With Verizon Business' new pay-as-you-go service model, companies utilizing Verizon Business' Enterprise Hosting Services can now more cost effectively and easily store critical company information using Verizon Business' new shared infrastructure that leverages its extensive capabilities in server, IP network and storage management.
Through the use of only a few key commands, storage may be provisioned to a host without specialized training or intimate knowledge of the low-level devices within the enclosure. This exponentially speeds up storage provisioning and allows Verizon Business to service customer requests more efficiently.
Christopher J. Wilson
Storage Architect, Verizon Business
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Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is a leading global communications provider, delivering innovative, cost-effective, advanced communications connectivity to businesses, governments and consumers. With the industry's most expansive global IP backbone, based on the number of company-owned points of presence, and wholly-owned data networks, Verizon develops the converged communications products and services that are the foundation for commerce and communications in today's market. For more information, go to www.verizonbusiness.com.
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