Carphone Warehouse, Europe's leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services with 700 stores in the U.K. and 1,300 in continental Europe, deployed two 3PAR InServ S400 Storage Servers to meet its ever increasing internal storage demands. Working together with IT consultancy Computacenter Services, the Carphone Warehouse chose 3PAR as the online storage standard for its new virtual data center to increase utilization rates, improve performance, simplify storage management and ultimately accelerate the time to market for new applications.
With 3PAR Utility Storage, we have demonstrated a 50% reduction in storage TCO while significantly increasing overall service levels. With 3PAR, we can do so much more than we anticipated.
Steven Gall
Enterprise Architect
Carphone Warehouse
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Hilton Grand Vacations, the timeshare division of Hilton Hotels Corporation, develops, markets and operates a system of brand name, high-quality vacation ownership resorts in select vacation destinations. Hilton Grand Vacations chose 3PAR Utility Storage to support its key mission-critical applications. In addition to selecting multiple 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers to be dispersed geographically, the company has also implemented a complete virtual datacenter based on the 3cV blueprint. "3cV" stands for the combination of the 3PAR InServ Storage Server, HP BladeSystem c-Class, and VMware® Infrastructure. These elements combine to form a complete utility computing offering that has enabled customers to halve server, storage, and operational costs and to gain instant agility.
With 3PAR, we have achieved remarkable gains in business agility as well as a cost reduction for a broad range of applications including our property management system, databases, messaging, Web servers, and file servers. With 3cV, we have quadrupled administrative efficiency and can now provision virtualized servers and storage within minutes versus weeks.
Rich Jackson
Vice President of Technology Operations
Hilton Grand Vacations
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 "Think Thin. Think Green." Award recipient
IAC, the owner and operator of more than 60 specialized and global brands was recently recognized by 3PAR as a leading user of Thin Provisioning. IAC is significantly reducing costs and annual energy consumption with more efficient thin technologies offered with 3PAR Utility Storage.
Combined with two other leading 3PAR Thin Provisioning users, IAC saves approximately one-quarter million kilowatt hours of energy on an annual basis, eliminating the output of nearly 400,000 lbs. of C02 emissions each year. To recognize these leading organizations and their use of Thin Provisioning, 3PAR has awarded three customers: IAC, CACI, and Edelman with the inaugural 2007 "Think Thin. Think Green." Award. As part of the award recognition, 3PAR has purchased $3,000 in carbon offsets on behalf of each winner through TerraPass (www.terrapass.com), the leading retailer of greenhouse gas reduction programs in the U.S.
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Sunlight Service Group Ltd, is the UK's leading supplier of textile rental and laundering services. Sunlight is the number one supplier of workwear rental in the UK with over one million people wearing its garments at work every day. Sunlight chose 3PAR Utility Storage for its unique combination of high availability, massive scalability and superior performance with unmatched simplicity and efficiency.
In order to consolidate disparate IT systems, improve efficiency and reduce costs, we sought to invest in a resilient and scalable yet cost-effective storage platform to support our new centralised Dynamics™ system. With 3PAR Utility Storage, we have been able to meet our rigorous service level demands for a centralised data repository while cutting our total cost of ownership for storage by more than 50% over competing storage systems. We have just two IT administrators dedicated to both servers and storage and less than 2% of their time is spent administering the 3PAR system. 3PAR has been of considerable benefit in freeing up valuable resources.
Najeeb Ahmad
Technical Projects & Support Manager
Sunlight
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"Think Thin. Think Green." Award recipient
