Not-for-Profit Health Care Organization Uses Highly Virtualized Storage to Cut Capacity Purchases by 25% and Shrink Administration by 75%

FREMONT, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/18/09 -- 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%.