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Home > News & Events > Press Releases > 3PAR and ComputaCenter Team to Deliver Utility Computing to the UK Market

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3PAR and ComputaCenter Team to Deliver Utility Computing to the UK Market

3PAR Strengthens UK Position with Leading IT Infrastructure Services Provide

London, UK - July 27, 2004

3PAR®, the leading provider of Utility Storage, and Computacenter (LSE: CCC.L), a leading European IT infrastructure services provider, announced today a comprehensive partnership to deliver utility computing to financial services and government organisations as well as SMEs in the UK. The partnership encompasses technical, marketing and support relationships and confirms 3PAR as an integral component of Computacenter's utility computing offering.

Computacenter, widely recognised for its technology sourcing, infrastructure integration and managed services, chose to partner with 3PAR due to its highly differentiated Utility Storage platform. 3PAR offers a simple and highly efficient storage array for utility computing and storage consolidation deployments. With this platform as a key part of its utility computing portfolio, Computacenter is able to further differentiate itself by enabling its clients to substantially lower costs, react more quickly to change and improve their response time to user requests.

"Computacenter has built its business on technology sourcing, infrastructure integration and managed services" said Simon Gay, Consultancy Practice Leader for Computacenter. "This relationship with 3PAR greatly enhances our delivery of utility computing at a time when customers are expressing greater interest in the subject."

At the forefront of this technology, 3PAR has become a leading supplier of Utility Storage. The company sought to extend its leadership outside the US by developing a partnership in the UK which matched its vision for utility computing and simplification of the storage datacentre. Computacenter's reputation as a leading system integration company and service provider for financial services, government and the SME market is an excellent fit with 3PAR's market focus and momentum.

"We have established a global network of world-class solution-delivery partners to work with on our largest customers," said David Scott, President and CEO of 3PAR. "These organisations have one thing in common: they recognise that server and storage virtualisation are at the core of the utility computing data centre, and 3PAR is storage virtualisation made simple. Computacenter's reputation as a leader in infrastructure integration and its vision for storage in the utility computing data centre make them an ideal partner for us. We couldn't be more pleased."

"This partnership is a perfect match," said Hamish Macarthur, CEO and founder of pan-European market research company Macarthur Stroud International. "Computacenter's increasingly utility-oriented integration and services business will benefit from 3PAR's highly differentiated model of simple, efficient utility storage. And 3PAR will gain substantially from Computacenter's enterprise relationships, credibility and growing managed services opportunities. This relationship puts excessive cost and poor service levels in the past tense."

The scope of the relationship includes a VAR and support agreement, as well as a marketing relationship.

About Computacenter
Computacenter is Europe's leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services. To help customers maximise the value of IT to their businesses, it offers services at every stage of infrastructure investment. The company advises customers on their IT strategy, implement the most appropriate technology from a wide range of leading vendors and manage elements of their technology infrastructures on their behalf. At every stage, Computacenter helps them minimise the cost and maximise the business value of their IT expenditure.

Corporate and government clients are served by a network of branch offices across the UK, Germany, France, Austria, Luxembourg and Belgium and, through our international partners, at locations throughout Europe, Asia Pacific and North America.

About 3PAR
3PAR® (NYSE Arca: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, tightly-clustered, and dynamically-tiered storage arrays built for utility computing. Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR Utility Storage gives customers an alternative to traditional arrays by delivering resilient infrastructure with increased agility at a lower total cost to meet their rapidly changing business needs. As a pioneer of thin provisioning — a green technology developed to address storage underutilization and inefficiencies — 3PAR offers products designed to minimize power consumption and promote environmental responsibility. With 3PAR, customers have reduced the costs of allocated storage capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency. 3PAR Utility Storage is built to meet the demands of open systems consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management, and performance-intensive applications.