3PAR launches thin provisioning products

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3PAR today announced new products to accompany its recently unveiled 'Thin Engine' technology.

The four products, aimed at enterprise customers, claim to reduce storage refresh costs by 60 per cent by using thin provisioning storage to make better use of devices.

Thin Conversion uses Gen3 ASIC technology to identify allocated but under-used capacity, enabling a business to consolidate storage and cut the amount of hardware needed in the data centre environment accordingly.

Thin Persistence and Thin Copy Reclamation are designed for long term upkeep of volumes and copies, ensuring they stay thin on the storage over time.

The fourth product is a version of the Thin Reclamation for Veritas Storage Foundation, which is built on a 'Thin API,' developed by 3PAR and Symantec.

3PAR claims that all four products will reduce costs, not just on hardware but on power, cooling and maintenance too.

Thin Conversion and Thin Persistance activate in the hardware rather than software, which Geoff Hough, senior director of business strategy at 3PAR, justified in an interview with IT PRO at Storage Expo.

“We chose to do this in hardware as software implementation can be very slow and most likely to be disruptive. The conversion of fat to thin volumes takes no more time to implement than any traditional migration which most enterprises do already,” he said.

The range of products are available now in the UK.

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