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ONSTOR AND 3PAR DELIVER WORLD'S FASTEST
OPEN NAS SOLUTION
Demonstrates world's first benchmark run
while optimizing data service levels
Los Gatos, CA and Fremont, CA, US - August 3, 2005
ONStor Inc., the leader in Enterprise NAS Gateway solutions for multi-vendor storage, and 3PAR®, the leading supplier of Utility Storage, today announced that ONStor's Bobcat NAS Gateway, paired with the 3PAR InServ® Storage Server, has shattered existing open NAS gateway performance records in independent benchmarking tests.
"These results demonstrate a truly powerful combination," said Steve Duplessie, Founder of the Enterprise Strategy Group. "For flexible and efficient file services with uncompromising performance, this is one of the best set of proof points I have seen."
Unmatched Performance and Cost Effectiveness
The ONStor/3PAR combination demonstrates the fastest open NAS gateway test score ever reported by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC®), doubling the fastest performance reported for Network Appliance's open storage NAS gateway. With 128,236 SPECsfs® operations per second from a cluster of four ONStor 2260 Bobcats, ONStor's NAS Gateway delivers a three-to-one price/performance advantage as compared to open NAS gateways from Network Appliance.* In addition, the InServ Storage Server used to obtain this result was running 3PAR Thin Provisioning software, which features unique dedicate-on-write technology that enables 100% utilization of dedicated raw capacity versus 30% with traditional dedicate-on-allocation technologies.
"Simple flexibility and cost-effective scalability led us to select ONStor and 3PAR for our critical file services," said Allen Thomas, Senior Director of System Operations, Cbeyond Communications. "The benefits of the ONStor/3PAR solution are very compelling."
Seamless and Linear Scalability
To demonstrate the linear scalability of the joint ONStor/3PAR solution, a single Bobcat SPEC result of 31,784 SPECsfs operations per second was also posted. The four-node configuration delivered four times the performance of a single ONStor Bobcat 2260, proving that ONStor's n-way fully active clustering architecture eliminates the performance-robbing overhead associated with conventional clustering implementations.
World's First: Proven Online Service Level Optimization
In additional benchmark results, ONStor/3PAR also completed the industry's first ever benchmark to feature 3PAR Dynamic Optimization. 3PAR Dynamic Optimization enables users to achieve optimal data service levels at the lowest possible cost, at all times and across all stages of the disk-based data lifecycle. This non-disruptive optimization feature allows for the change of data service levels online and with little or no impact to applications. A baseline result was first established featuring a single Bobcat 2260 and a 3PAR InServ Storage Server configured for RAID 1. This baseline test delivered 30,530 SPECsfs operations per second. A second result was obtained with the same configuration while using 3PAR Dynamic Optimization. With a single command, each of 16 volumes was converted from RAID 1 to RAID 5 during the course of the test. This test yielded a near-equivalent result of 30,000 SPECsfs operations per second, thus proving that online service level optimization can be achieved simply and without impacting performance.
"These new SPEC benchmarking results demonstrate that Bobcat-driven solutions can easily give enterprise customers the performance to support over 10,000 users while allowing them the flexibility to deploy best-of-breed storage solutions such as 3PAR's InServ Storage Server," said Bob Miller, CEO of ONStor. "As organizations seek open solutions to consolidate and efficiently meet demanding performance requirements, choosing Bobcat gives them the data-moving horsepower required for large user communities, for Web content delivery and for scientific and engineering applications, while delivering substantial price/performance advantages over NetApp."
"Organizations need to deliver optimal service levels across all stages of the data lifecycle, and solutions such as Dynamic Optimization provide a simple, non-disruptive means to ensure optimization in a quick and efficient manner," said David Scott, CEO of 3PAR. "These SPEC benchmark tests demonstrate that optimal service levels can be maintained even when high performance is a must. The impressive cost savings associated with service level optimization are now simply achieved with Dynamic Optimization, the next killer app for storage."
About ONStor
ONStor is the leader in enterprise-class NAS Gateways that consolidate file services on multi-vendor storage. ONStor storage solutions dramatically reduce management costs by providing customers with the most easily scaled storage environment, and reduce capital costs by delivering the freedom and flexibility of the industry's most interoperable platform. ONStor products and technology are offered by leading system integrators and resellers worldwide. All products are backed by a host of support offerings and by ONStor's uncompromising commitment to customer service. More information about ONStor can be found at www.onstor.com or by calling toll-free 877-2ON-STOR (877-266-7867).
About 3PAR
3PAR is the leading provider of Utility Storage, a simple, efficient and scalable tiered-storage array for utility computing that lets customers serve more with less. 3PAR Utility Storage can cut an organization's Total Cost of Data by 50%. Capacity and related costs can be cut by 75% while storage administration and associated expenses can be reduced by 90%. 3PAR Utility Storage is ideal for open systems storage consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management and performance-intensive applications. Well positioned with key strategic investors including Oracle, Sun, and VERITAS, 3PAR has been operating successfully for the past six years.
3PAR is based in Fremont, California, and has offices in London, UK and Tokyo, Japan. The company's corporate headquarters are located at 4209 Technology Drive, Fremont, CA 94538. Phone: 510-413-5999, fax: 510-354-3070, email: salesinfo@3pardata.com.
About SPEC
*SPEC® and the benchmark name SPECsfs® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results available as of Aug 3, 2005 for systems manufactured by ONStor, Inc. and Network Appliance, Inc. For the latest SPECsfs® benchmark results, visit www.spec.org and www.onstor.com.
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