Contents.History 3PAR was founded in mid-1998 or 1999, originally called 3PARdata. The founders included Jeffrey Price and Ashok Singhal, the P and A in the company's name. The R stands for a third partner, Robert Rogers, who left the company in 2001. David Scott became president and CEO in January 2001.3PAR first shipped the InServ storage server in September 2002.
3PAR's primary competitors in the enterprise storage market are,. 3PAR called itself a pioneer of, a mechanism to improve the utilization efficiency of storage capacity deployment.3PAR first announced this capability in June 2002 and shipped it to customers in 2003.An investment round of almost $33 million was disclosed in February 2004. Investors included, and Worldview Technology Partners. In September 2007, 3PAR opened a second research and development office in, Northern Ireland. The company completed an in November 2007 and was initially listed on the exchange under the symbol PAR. In the same month, 3PAR introduced Virtual Domains, which allow for secure application data isolation on a consolidated multi-tenant storage platform. In December 2008, 3PAR moved to the NYSE Big Board.
What information can be monitored is defined by a MIB (Management Information Base). The MIB’s are a collection of managed objects identified by Object Identifiers (OID). These OID list the characteristics of the devices that can be managed. 3PAR and SNMP. 3PAR has its own SNMP agent built into the device.
One year later, 3PAR opened an Indian subsidiary in Bangalore focused on providing logistical and administrative support for its Global Services and Support operations. In March 2010, the company introduced 3PAR Adaptive Optimization, the industry's first implementation of storage tiering for cost optimization in high-end storage systems, targeted at enterprises and service providers.
In April 2010, the company was recognized by Forbes magazine as the fourth fastest growing technology company in its Tech25 list. A 3PAR storage device in 20073PAR promoted what it called 'utility storage', designed to be the storage foundation for utility computing architectures.
Architectures provide a multi-tenant platform on which service providers can deliver both and scalable enterprise IT as a utility service. The emergence of (SaaS), infrastructure as a service and business models deployed via the internet and are examples of this trend. Enterprises and government organizations that are turning their IT organizations into internal service bureaus by building shared virtualized infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation are another.In 2005, 3PAR's InServ storage server was marketed for business. It included the models T400 and T800 which compete with high-end monolithic like the EMC and HDS, and the models F200 and F400 which compete with modular storage arrays like the and HP.The current range of HPE 3PAR products consists of the 8000, 9000, and 20,000 series. The 8000 series was introduced in 2015 as a mid- range offering, available in both flash and hybrid variations. The high end 20,000 series was also introduced in 2015 and scales to 8 nodes, this can be scaled even further by using a federation. Most recently the 9000 series was introduced in 2017 which sits in between the 8000 and 20,000 series, scaling up to 4 nodes.Common across all 3PAR models is the architecture based around the ASIC.
The current ASIC version is Gen5 and enables functionality such as compression, thin provisioning and parity calculations. Also common across all 3PAR models is the 3PAR OS software, 3PAR OS 3.3.1 enhanced data reduction capabilities with the introduction of compression and enhancements to dedupe.References.
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D8tadude.com.Further reading. DePamphilis, Donald (2015). 'End of Chapter Case Study: Hewlett-Packard Outbids Dell Computer to Acquire 3PAR'. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities. Academic Press. – via Google Books (preview).
3PAR was sought after due to the growing acceptance of its storage product technology in the emerging 'cloud computing' market. Melka, Lionel; Shabi, Amit (2012). '3.1.4 Rival bids and bidding wars'. Merger Arbitrage: A Fundamental Approach to Event-Driven Investing. The Wiley Finance Series. Michael Zaoui (Contributor). John Wiley & Sons.
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