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PolyServe Partners With 3PAR: Page 3 of 3

The 3PAR/PolyServe partnership is only the latest of several for both vendors, who aim to hit all angles of the storage market through various alliances. 3PAR also sells its storage with cluster technologies from HP, IBM, ONStor, Sun, and Symantec, among others. (See ONStor, 3PAR Double-Team and 3PAR, ONStor Team.) PolyServe has agreements with DataDirect Networks, EqualLogic, HP, and Verari. (See PolyServe, HP Deal Expands , DataDirect Bundles PolyServe, and Verari Teams With PolyServe.)

On the downside, the joint solution has heavy competition from BlueArc, Ibrix, Isilon, and Panasas, as well as a slew of emerging Lego-like storage combinations that pair block-level storage with NAS gateways or server clustering -- such as the Dell and Microsoft team-up and the proposed HDS/BlueArc pairing. (See Dell, Microsoft Team on NAS-Plus-iSCSI and HDS, BlueArc in Big NAS Deal.)

On the upside, the proliferation of options like this one only expand the possibilities for users who may not want to give up a favorite platform or a certain kind of hardware flexibility in order to achieve consolidation and savings.

Mary Jander, Site Editor, Byte and Switch

  • BlueArc Corp.
  • DataDirect Networks Inc.
  • Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL)
  • EqualLogic Inc.
  • FalconStor Software Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC)
  • Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ)
  • Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)
  • IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM)
  • Ibrix Inc.
  • Isilon Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: ISLN)
  • Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)
  • Network Appliance Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP)
  • ONStor Inc.
  • Panasas Inc.
  • PolyServe Inc.
  • The StorageIO Group
  • Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW)
  • 3PAR Inc.