In some instances, it looks like the new midrange systems will be supplemental to larger 3PAR wares. For instance, Scott says one managed service provider plans to use E200s at its customer sites and have several of them replicate back to an S800 box at the providers data center.
In another example, Clement Ho, IT manager for semiconductor manufacturer Novellus Systems, runs a Sun StorEdge 9970 built on Hitachi Lightning controllers in his company's main data center, but since Ho's team didn't need another enterprise system in that disaster recovery site, they looked at midrange SANs from EMC, Hitachi, Pillar, and Sun along with 3PAR.
Ho purchased a 3-Tbyte 3PAR E200 to use in his disaster recovery site. He says 3PAR won the deal after his team evaluated demo systems for ease of use, pricing, availability, support, and maintainability.
"3PAR was especially strong in ease of use," Ho says. "My team was looking at different operating system environments, and 3PAR has the easiest operating system. Its rapid provisioning takes 10 seconds to carve out an area for a host. The price is impressive also."
Ho says his major concern about 3PAR is that it is a private company, albeit a well-funded one after a $30 million in April brought its total funding to $183 million. (See 3PAR Picks Up $30M .) "But because we're looking to use it for DR, we dont place as much weight on that, Ho says. This is a standby system. It sits there and waits for a disaster to happen. We're not using it for primary storage."
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