The foundation of 3PAR® software is the InForm¨ Operating System. The InForm OS utilizes advanced cluster and virtualization capabilities to dramatically reduce storage administration and storage expenditures.

Simple—automatic management of finely virtualized capacity eliminates array planning and delivers instant, application-tailored provisioning.

Available—independent instances of the InForm OS are clustered for HW and SW fault tolerance.

Efficient—massively addressable and finely virtualized capacity provide seamless resource utilization.

Unified—full cache-coherency provides tight integration between all resources so users manage, and hosts see, a single system image.

Manageable—simple CLI or GUI interfaces provide rich physical and logical instrumentation with tiered administrative control.

3PAR is committed to open standards and open manageability, and has developed and continues to develop capabilities within the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).