3PAR and Knitlogix Partner to Introduce Utility Storage to India

By VSM News Staff
published: Monday, October 27 2008

3PAR Creates Channel into India to Capitalize on Demand for Virtualized Storage for Utility and Cloud Computing Datacenters.

Fremont, CA, October 27, 2008--3PAR® (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that it has expanded sales into India through a new channel partnership with global technology integrator Knitlogix Pvt, Ltd., based in Hyderabad, India. With offices across India, the Middle East, and the US, Knitlogix has agreed to sell and support 3PAR Utility Storage systems to enterprise customers in India as part of a focus on delivering utility and cloud computing integration. Knitlogix was formed to capitalize on the substantial demand for enterprise-class storage alternatives that overcome the limitations of traditional high-end and monolithic storage. They offer unique expertise in introducing next-generation storage technology to the Indian market.

"In India, currently there is a lack of highly virtualized and extremely scalable systems that offer compelling return on investment for enterprises with a variety of storage needs" said Ajay Jhunjhunwala, Director of Operations for Knitlogix. "This has created an ideal opportunity for Knitlogix and 3PAR to introduce 3PAR Utility Storage to the Indian market to meet the increasing demand for energy- and cost-efficient storage systems for cloud and utility computing datacenters."

Under the terms of this partnership, Knitlogix has agreed to sell 3PAR hardware and software products, including the 3PAR InServ ® T-Class Storage Server with Thin Built InTM, 3PAR Thin Provisioning, and 3PAR Dynamic Optimization. In addition, Knitlogix offers customers full-scale services and support in collaboration with 3PAR's corporate support organization and through its dedicated 24x7 global call center.

"In 2007, the storage market in India was worth US $250 million, with revenue distributed between just a handful of storage vendors," said Simon Piff, Program Director of Asia Pacific storage systems research at IDC. "This environment presents a ripe opportunity for next-generation storage vendors with innovative technologies and disruptive value propositions."

"The simplicity of management and ability to reduce our total cost of storage by up to 50% were major factors in our decision to invest in 3PAR for our India datacenter," said Dan Grillo, Ariba Senior Director, Hosting Operations. "The capability of the 3PAR InServ to scale non-disruptively from two controllers and a few disk drives to eight controllers and well over a thousand drives within a single system was particularly compelling. Never have ease of management, energy-efficiency, return on investment, and total cost of ownership for storage been more critical to our business, and the decision to deploy 3PAR Utility Storage was made with these requirements in mind."

"The partnership with Knitlogix has presented us with a critical opportunity to team with a company that shares our vision regarding the importance of utility and cloud computing in penetrating a key market where the need for utility storage has never been greater," said David Scott, 3PAR President and CEO. "Knitlogix and 3PAR are poised to serve the Indian market by providing a much-needed, non disruptive alternative to traditional storage."

About Knitlogix

Knitlogix is a global storage solutions integrator which has presence in India, the US, and the Middle East with core expertise in open systems including HP-UX, SunTM SolarisTM, IBM® AIX®, VMware®, Microsoft®, and legacy systems. Knitlogix is a technocrats venture with three decades of cumulative expertise in information technology infrastructure, enterprise storage integration, backup and disaster recovery, SAN migration, NAS technologies, and a focus on cloud, utility, and grid computing. Knitlogix storage solution integration and architecture is aimed at delivering complete storage integration for the enterprise with solutions designed by architects with experience integrating enterprise-class storage solutions for Fortune 100 corporations worldwide. For more information, please visit www.knitlogix.com.

About 3PAR

3PAR® (NYSE Arca: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, tightly clustered, and dynamically tiered storage arrays built for utility computing. Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR Utility Storage gives customers an alternative to traditional arrays by delivering resilient infrastructure with increased agility at a lower total cost to meet their rapidly changing business needs. As a pioneer of thin provisioning-a green technology developed to address storage underutilization and inefficiencies-3PAR offers products designed to minimize power consumption and promote environmental responsibility. With 3PAR, customers have reduced the costs of allocated storage capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency. 3PAR Utility Storage is built to meet the demands of open systems consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management, and performance-intensive applications. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.