HP Doubles Customer Base of 3par

HP announced that the service provider customer base for 3PAR Utility Storage has more than doubled in the first three fiscal quarters since the company acquired 3PAR in September 2010.

This customer adoption has contributed to HP 3PAR’s triple-digit revenue growth year over year for the quarter ending July 31.

The HP 3PAR P10000 V800 Storage System also set a worldwide OLTP performance record, based on the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark. This performance for tier 1 enterprise, virtualization and cloud data center environments will enable clients to consolidate their virtualized IT infrastructure on a massive scale.

"Raising the bar for agile, efficient storage for IT-as-a-Service has been our focus since HP acquired 3PAR a year ago," said David Scott, senior vice president and general manager, Storage, HP. "Continuing to deliver world-record beating performance that surpasses 3PAR customer expectations is not only our goal, but a formula for fueling ongoing revenue growth."

Tier 1 record-shattering performance
Launched in August, HP P10000 3PAR Storage Systems offer features for the delivery of tier 1 enterprise IT within public and private clouds, called IT-as-a-Service. These features include multitenancy for unpredictable workload consolidation, expanded thin technologies for efficient capacity utilization and autonomic load rebalancing to drive enterprise agility.

SPC-1 Results are real-world OLTP audited measurements that provide clients with a source of comparative storage performance information that is objective, relevant and verifiable. The independently audited HP 3PAR V800 SPC-1 Result delivered the fastest SPC-1 performance ever published by the Storage Performance Council.

Configured with a capacity equivalent of thousands of virtual machines, the standard commercially shipping version of the HP 3PAR V800 achieved 450,212.66 SPC-1 IOP/s – the highest performance by any single system and a 100 percent faster performance than the previous fastest HP 3PAR SPC-1 Result.

Performance, lower expenses
In addition to OLTP performance, the SPC-1 Result highlighted the simple, autonomic management offered by the HP 3PAR V800. Using simple, standard commands, the HP 3PAR V800 self-configured and self-provisioned the required SPC-1 storage configuration. This illustrates clients’ ability to configure and deploy the HP 3PAR V800 for demanding service levels while eliminating management complexity.

Clients using competing storage arrays typically achieve written data utilization rates of as little as 10 to 20 percent.(Based on documented experiences and business results in client deployments.) The SPC-1 benchmark demonstrated that the HP 3PAR V800 delivered performance with 80 percent capacity utilization, illustrating that clients can reduce capital costs while meeting critical service-level requirements.