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3PAR InServ Ranked as One of the Leading Storage Products in Use by Fortune 1000 Companies

New Wave-8 Survey of the Fortune 1000 by TheInfoPro Gives 3PAR Top Marks

FREMONT, CA, November 14, 2006

3PAR®, the leading provider of Utility Storage, announced today that the 3PAR InServ® S800 Storage Server was named one of the most exciting storage vendor products in TheInfoPro (TIP) Storage Study Wave 8, Fall 2006. The InServ Storage Server is a simple, efficient and massively scalable tiered-storage array for utility computing.

Distributed computing data centers are increasingly evolving to utility computing to reduce costs and complexity while recentralizing corporate data, and 3PAR is the leading storage building block in this transition. The TIP Storage Networking — Fortune 1000 End User Study is based on direct customer feedback on the key issues, hot new storage technologies, spending plans, vendor ratings and projects in 2006 and 2007.

The 3PAR InServ S800 ranked #2 out of 33 leading vendor products in response to the question "What emerging or exciting vendor product do you have in use?" and 3PAR ranked #3 in response to the question "Which 1-2 vendors do you think have the most exciting Storage products or services?"

A representative customer response is highlighted in the anonymous Fortune 1000 end user survey: "3PAR is in use and we really like how simple it is for provisioning—you don't have to be a rocket scientist in LUN magic to run it."

"The last four Waves of research show installed storage capacity in the Fortune 1000 doubling every 10 months," said Robert Stevenson, Managing Director for Storage at TheInfoPro. "The customers in our TIPNetwork are citing simplified provisioning across multiple tiers as the innovative 'must have' feature to effectively manage this accelerated capacity growth."

3PAR has successfully penetrated financial services, technology and health care in the Fortune 1000. The company has also become a standard for leading B2B hosting and B2C Internet and Web 2.0 companies. By pioneering utility computing technologies such as virtualization, automation and clustering, 3PAR is revolutionizing the mission-critical data center. 3PAR customers need only purchase half the storage capacity required with traditional storage arrays. Deploying 3PAR Utility Storage also means lower capital costs and administration overhead as well as reduced consumption of electricity and data center floor space.

"TheInfoPro study reports on the leading organizations in America today," said David Scott, 3PAR President and CEO. "This study reflects what we see first-hand within 3PAR. We continue to gain a strategic foothold within these leading organizations, often displacing traditional enterprise storage architectures, because the management ease of Utility Storage and capacity efficiency of Thin Provisioning are unmatched by any other solution today."

To view a rich media presentation of TheInfoPro Storage Study Wave 8 findings, visit: http://www.brainshark.com/theinfopro/storw8_snr_f1000_pr [note: no longer available].

About TheInfoPro
TheInfoPro (TIP) is a leading independent research network and supplier of market intelligence for the Information Technology (IT) industry. TheInfoPro, the "Voice of the Customer," helps IT professionals, technology providers, and the financial community, make sound decisions on technology, business strategies and investments. Through a peer network of over 900 of the world's largest buyers and users of IT, TheInfoPro delivers real-time expertise and analysis on technology, industry opportunities and trends. Since 2001, TheInfoPro has been helping clients exceed their business potential. For more information or to join the TIPNetwork visit: www.theinfopro.net or call us at +1 212.67 2.0010.

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.