3PAR Reduces Storage TCO by 60% at Martin's Point Health Care

FREMONT, CA--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - 3PAR®
(NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced
today that, by choosing 3PAR Utility Storage to virtualize, consolidate,
and expand its storage infrastructure, Martin's Point Health Care has
reduced their total cost of ownership for storage by more than 60%. Since
deploying 3PAR Utility Storage, Martin's Point has reduced capacity
purchases by 25%, cut server and storage administration time by 75%,
improved both performance and scalability, and eliminated the downtime
previously experienced with their legacy storage infrastructure.

"Our datacenter needed a refresh, and this was an excellent opportunity for
us to be rid of the infrastructure limits imposed by legacy storage," said
Tom Ackerson, Systems Administrator for Martin's Point. "Expanding our
storage environment with our previous storage vendor would have forced us
to expand outside the box rather than within it. Instead, 3PAR offered us
an agile and efficient storage platform that eliminated the challenges
faced on our legacy storage infrastructure, all at a competitive price
point."

Martin's Point is a not-for-profit health care organization offering both
direct care and health plan services to close to 90,000 people in Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. As an organization, Martin's Point
has managed to stay at the leading edge of the industry, even as the health
care system has become more complex. To find innovative ways to make the
health care system more efficient and effective, Martin's Point required an
agile and efficient IT infrastructure that would support critical online
services including housing Web-based information portals, online
prescription and refill services, and electronic health recordkeeping.

Given the importance of their IT infrastructure, Martin's Point chose to
deploy an entire virtual datacenter based on the 3cV
blueprint, which combines the 3PAR InServ® Storage Server with
products from HP and VMware® to create a complete utility computing
environment. This has resulted in a 60% reduction in Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO) for storage for Martin's Point. This reduction is the
result of minimizing storage administration time, maximizing scalable
performance and capacity headroom, and decreasing capacity purchases by 25%
as compared to expanding their previous storage environment by purchasing
storage from a legacy vendor.

Reduced Administration

With 3PAR, Martin's Point has reduced configuration time by 85% and overall
storage administration time by 75%. Their new 3PAR InServ array was up and
running in hours rather than days or weeks and Martin's Point has been able
to manage their new utility storage system without the need for a full-time
storage administrator, even though their new environment is five times
larger than their previous one.

With 3PAR Virtual Copy, the health care organization also saves time and
money on database copies because they can create virtual copies of their
SQL databases in just seconds -- a 99% time savings over the 5-6 hours
previously required to complete a full physical copy of each database.

"With a highly virtualized environment, we can now snapshot and manipulate
live data without taking down an entire system," said Ackerson. "This was
not possible with our previous storage environment."

Increased Scalability, Performance, and Capacity Headroom

"Increasingly, organizations are finding that moving to a virtualized
infrastructure can deliver critical benefits such as improved performance,
cost-efficiency gains, and greater flexibility," said Mark Peters, Senior
Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Virtual servers benefit dramatically
from networked storage and are optimized with virtualized storage -- which
is where 3PAR has a track record of enabling organizations, as exemplified
by Martin's Point, to be more responsive to their users' needs for
dramatically less cost and administrative effort than legacy storage
approaches."

The 3PAR InServ uses wide striping of volumes across all disks to eliminate
hotspots and ensure high performance levels. In addition, Martin's Point
uses 3PAR Dynamic Optimization software to automatically rebalance volumes
when new disks are added, which increases performance levels whenever new
capacity is added to their InServ array. With their previous monolithic
arrays, when Martin's Point needed to expand their storage, they had no way
to distribute the workload across existing as well as new disks -- a factor
that limited performance and throughput. Thus far, Martin's Point has not
observed any hard limits on the performance of their 3PAR array, something
that cannot be said of storage purchased from their previous vendor.

In addition, Martin's Point found that the 3PAR InServ offered
significantly more logical connections to SQL Server hosts without
licensing fees or other restrictions -- promoting affordable, flexible
datacenter expandability. Previously, Martin's Point could only connect 10
hosts to each of their storage arrays. Now their InServ array supports more
than 50 host connections without additional hardware and has no licensing
limits for SQL servers. This was another source of savings for Martin's
Point since their legacy storage system's licensing scheme forced cost and
scalability issues with regards to adding new SQL Server hosts.

"Non-profits simply cannot afford to invest in technologies that don't
offer a solid return on investment. The virtual datacenter introduces
storage challenges that traditional technologies are not architected to
address," said David Scott, President and CEO for 3PAR. "Our utility
storage systems have been developed with the demands of the virtual
datacenter in mind, combining agility with both CAPEX and OPEX savings that
enable organizations like Martin's Point to extend their resources and
better serve their communities."

About Martin's Point Health Care

Martin's Point Health Care is a not-for-profit regional health care
provider operating health centers in Portsmouth, N.H., Portland and
Brunswick, Maine, and its Evergreen Woods affiliate in Bangor, Maine. All
are open to the community. Martin's Point also administers the US Family
Health Plan in Northern New England and New York State as well as Medicare
Advantage health plans and employer wellness and health management services
in Maine.

About 3PAR

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR) is the leading
global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized and
dynamically tiered storage arrays built for public and private cloud
computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground
up to be agile and efficient to address the limitations of traditional
storage arrays for utility infrastructures. As a pioneer of thin
provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our
products to reduce power consumption to help companies meet their green
computing initiatives and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR
customers have used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to
reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server
and storage utilization, and to scale and adapt flexibly in response to
continuous growth and changing business needs. For more information, visit
the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.

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