By VSM News Staff
published: Monday, April 07 2008
Fremont, CA, April 7, 2008--3PAR® (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced
today a new version of 3PAR System Reporter, a Web-based historical performance
and capacity management reporting tool for 3PAR InServ® Storage
Servers. This new version of 3PAR System Reporter adds support for Oracle®
Database 11g, which is ideally suited
for System Reporter deployments with large databases and numerous concurrent
users. With the addition of support for Oracle Database 11g, enterprise and service provider customers who rely on System
Reporter now have greater configuration choice and flexibility.
3PAR System Reporter is designed to simplify the
planning, monitoring, and troubleshooting of customers' 3PAR InServ
Storage Servers. With a simple-to-use, Web-based interface, System Reporter
provides a complete view of historical performance and capacity utilization for
all of a customer's 3PAR arrays. System Reporter enables users to create
and display reports by server and by application data set (virtual LUN) and to
highlight key performance metrics such as I/O per second, megabytes per second,
and I/O service times (latency per I/O). With System Reporter, users have the
ability to instantly determine capacity utilization and configuration metrics
to easily manage the inventory, growth, and procurement of data storage
capacity. System Reporter also enables customers to easily export and
understand reports according to the metrics they require, by storage tier or by
3PAR Virtual Domain (a virtual array within a physical InServ Storage Server).
Since its introduction in 2006, the number of 3PAR customers
using System Reporter has increased significantly. A growing number of these
customers have numerous concurrent users and large amounts of data. 3PAR System
Reporter with support for Oracle Database 11g
is designed to meet the needs of these customers while also providing greater
configuration choice and flexibility in deciding which types of databases to
deploy.
"Storage management involves
many kinds of detailed metrics, and the problems that arise are often chronic
and hard to diagnose, particularly in virtualized, multi-tenant
environments," said Anne MacFarland, Director of I. T. Architectures and Strategies at The
Clipper Group, Inc. "In offering support for Oracle as a metrics
repository, System Reporter can support analyses of greater, more granular
data, which can speed decision making. When used in conjunction with
3PAR's Virtual Domains virtual machine software, 3PAR's solution
targets both efficiency and effectiveness."
"Managing a large and growing infrastructure can
be a demanding and time-intensive task. The addition of Oracle Database 11g support to System Reporter enables
more 3PAR customers to aggregate historical system data for multiple
InServs," said David Scott, President and CEO of 3PAR. "A growing
number of our customers rely on System Reporter as a significant tool for
troubleshooting, planning, consolidated monitoring, and gathering of
information required for Service Level Agreement and chargeback support.
We're excited to welcome Oracle Database 11g users into the fold."
System
Reporter includes a built-in database and ApacheTM Web server. Oracle
Database 11g is supported as an
optional database and is sold separately. The latest version of 3PAR System
Reporter is available immediately.
3PAR is a member of the
Oracle PartnerNetwork.
About Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network
of more than 19,500 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based
on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical
services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program
provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's
global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge
solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise
software company. Partners who are able to demonstrate superior product
knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle
qualify for the Certified Partner levels.
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.
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