"3PAR Inc. (NYSE: PAR) is an American manufacturer of systems and software for data storage and information management. It is headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. 3PAR produces a range of enterprise storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management software. Its company slogan is "Resilient Infrastructure Agility For Less."
3PAR led the development of what has been called a new category of disk arrays, "Utility Storage"[1], that are designed to be the storage foundation for utility computing architectures. Virtualized utility computing architectures provide the platform on which service providers can deliver enterprise IT as a utility service. The emergence of Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and social networking business models deployed via the internet and cloud computing are examples of this trend. Enterprises and government organizations that are turning their IT organizations into internal service bureaus by building shared virtualized infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation are another.
3PAR’s flagship SAN product, the InServ storage server, is a component of the enterprise storage in many data centers. It includes the models T400 and T800 which compete with high end monolithic storage arrays like the EMC DMX and HDS USP, and the models F200 and F400 which compete with modular storage arrays like the EMC CX and HP EVA. The same InForm operating system software suite runs across both the F- and T-class platforms." (
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