3PAR a Success at Hilton

FREMONT, Calif. -- 3PAR (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that Hilton Grand Vacations, the timeshare division of Hilton Hotels Corporation, has implemented 3PAR Utility Storage to support its key mission-critical applications. In addition to selecting multiple 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers to be dispersed geographically, the company has also implemented a complete virtual datacenter based on the 3cV blueprint. “3cV" stands for the combination of the 3PAR InServ Storage Server, HP BladeSystem c-Class, and VMware® Infrastructure. These elements combine to form a complete utility computing offering that has enabled customers to halve server, storage, and operational costs and to gain instant agility.

"With 3PAR, we have achieved remarkable gains in business agility as well as cost reduction for a broad range of applications including our property management system, databases, messaging, Web servers, and file servers," said Rich Jackson, Vice President of Technology Operations at Hilton Grand Vacations. "With 3cV, we have quadrupled administrative efficiency and can now provision virtualized servers and storage within minutes versus weeks."

3PAR Inc.