Incipient, Inc., the leading provider of storage virtualization software for Storage Area Network (SAN) environments, and 3PAR®, the leading provider of Utility Storage, announced today that the companies have partnered to deliver non-disruptive data migration and utility computing solutions to joint customers. The collaboration comes in response to heavy demand for highly scalable and cost effective Utility Storage with a particular urgency from financial services companies.
With this partnership, Incipient has joined 3PAR’s Utility Computing partner program and self-certified its flagship product — Incipient Network Storage Platform™ (iNSP™) software suite — with the 3PAR InServ® Storage Server family. Additionally, both companies have engaged in a cooperative support agreement.
The iNSP software suite runs on the Cisco 32-Port Storage Services Modules (SSM) with the Cisco MDS 9000 family of SAN switches. This solution combination allows customers to easily deploy storage services such as non-disruptive data migration, network volume management and copy services within their mission critical SANs.
“Cisco is pleased to work with storage solution providers to offer best-in-class solutions for our customers,” said Ed Chapman, vice president of product management, Data Center and Switching Business Unit, Cisco. “The Incipient solution enables Cisco storage networking customers to seamlessly migrate data to 3PAR Utility Storage and benefit from cost-efficient data migration and replication.”
Supplying and servicing the storage needs of global financial organizations is a shared focus of 3PAR and Incipient. The joint integration of iNSP and 3PAR InServ Storage Servers provides customers with the ability to move data to and from 3PAR Utility Storage, which has experienced rapid adoption with financial services companies because it reduces cost and eases management of allocated storage capacity. By leveraging the 3PAR InServ Storage Server with iNSP software, customers can now deploy cost efficient storage services within their traditional and utility storage environments. iNSP Network Data Mobility storage service allows administrators to migrate data between existing monolithic storage and newly installed 3PAR arrays without any downtime to applications or hosts. For the financial services industry, reducing the amount of data that currently exists on monolithic storage arrays to a more cost effective mission-critical storage platform is a significant economic advantage.
“As more and more companies turn to their storage partners for solutions that improve productivity and increase company profitability, we are delighted to partner with 3PAR to work toward this objective,” said Ric Cavillo, co-founder and CEO of Incipient. “Both companies share the same commitment to customers with continued focus on cost-effective technology innovations. We look forward to collaborating with 3PAR to provide world-class enterprises with leading edge solutions to meet the needs of today’s application data growth challenges.”
“Over the past eighteen months, we have seen a rapid adoption of Utility Storage among financial services companies as they learn how 3PAR can help them achieve their growth requirements for dramatically less cost and effort,” said David Scott, president and CEO for 3PAR. “With this new partnership, we are able to demonstrate to these same customers how easy it can be to move data from aging monolithic storage environments to 3PAR in order to gain tremendous financial advantage.”
About 3PAR
3PAR is the leading provider of Utility Storage, a simple, efficient and massively scalable tiered-storage array for utility computing that lets customers serve more with less. 3PAR Utility Storage can cut an organization’s Total Cost of Data by 50%. Capacity and related costs can be cut by 75% while storage administration and associated expenses can be reduced by 90%. 3PAR Utility Storage is ideal for open systems storage consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management and performance-intensive applications.
3PAR is based in Fremont, California, and has offices in Bracknell, UK, Stuttgart, Germany, and Tokyo, Japan. The company’s corporate headquarters are located at 4209 Technology Drive, Fremont, CA 94538. Phone: 510-413-5999, fax: 510-354-3070, email: salesinfo@3pardata.com, Web site: http://www.3par.com
About Incipient, Inc.
Incipient, Inc. is a leading provider of patented storage virtualization and data migration software that delivers zero planned downtime and simplified management for enterprise SAN environments. Incipient is a privately held software company with corporate headquarters in Waltham, MA. For more information, please visit http://www.incipient.com
