National Stock Exchange Upgrades With 3par

Hewlett-Packard Development
Company, L.P. announced that the National
Stock Exchange, Inc., or NSX, has selected HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage to
lower storage operating costs and reduce database query and regulatory
reporting time.

Upgrading to HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, combined with NSX’s new HP ProLiant
server infrastructure, improved daily report processing by 50%, which resulted
in an increase of overall staff productivity.

3PAR StoreServ Storage, a component of HP Converged Storage, has enabled
NSX to: lower data center TCO with 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software by
allowing the pooling of physical storage resources for increased capacity
utilization and reduced initial capital expenses; and increase efficiency with 3PAR Thin Built-In ASIC zero-detection capabilities along with 3PAR Adaptive
Optimization software to reclaim unused capacity and rebalance
system resources for real-time storage optimization.

3PAR StoreServ Storage has also enabled NSX to minimize data center energy
and infrastructure costs by shrinking storage footprint 33%; reduce risk of
downtime with an available clustered design, remote replication
to DR sites, and persistent technologies that enable non-disruptive online
system upgrades and system performance monitoring; and boost business
productivity with active data volumes on each controller, which increases
performance throughput to 8GB/s, double the rate of NSX’s previous storage
system.

Chris Riley, VP, US, storage, HP, said: "The increasing complexity of securities industry regulations are
straining legacy storage systems that are unable to deliver application
performance required for efficient data reporting demands. Dramatic system
performance improvements delivered by HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage have increased
NSX’s business productivity while reducing storage management, enabling
executives to focus more on innovation and less on administration."

"Reducing administration costs and
time spent on operational tasks requires an easy-to-manage storage system with
performance throughput that outmatches the intensive data requirements of a
stock exchange," said Bruce Kulback, CIO, National Stock Exchange.
"HP Converged Storage lowered our
data center costs and boosted application performance, which enabled us to
reduce time spent on reporting and instead focus resources on improving our
trading services."