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posted on 24 July 2008 09:24

FREMONT, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Jul 23, 2008 -- 3PAR® (PAR - News), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today a partnership with Tokyo-based ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) to deliver 3PAR Utility Storage products and maintenance services to customers throughout Japan.

With this partnership, 3PAR gains the leverage of CTC's network of 4000 sales and pre-sales engineers and approximately 100 maintenance centers across Japan to expand market coverage and value delivery to CTC customers nationwide. The partnership between 3PAR and CTC creates a strategic alliance designed to meet the demand for storage solutions to support the growth of utility computing, infrastructure virtualization, and green datacenter deployments in Japan.

3PAR Utility Storage was developed to serve as the storage foundation of utility computing. Utility computing enables IT organizations to deliver software and hardware as a service. At the core of utility computing is server and storage virtualization. Highly virtualized 3PAR Utility Storage was built to support the delivery of enterprise IT as a utility service, to enable cloud computing over the Web, and to facilitate a new generation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based applications.

Of critical importance to CTC is the fact that 3PAR Utility Storage also provides a green storage alternative for the Japan market. 3PAR Utility Storage was designed to significantly reduce the number of disks that customers must purchase, house, power, and cool to meet the same business needs as traditional storage. This net energy savings has enabled 3PAR customers to reduce greenhouse emissions and lessen the carbon footprint of their data storage. With 3PAR's thin technologies, customers have reduced capacity, energy, and floor space requirements by up to 75% and have achieved energy and cost savings of as much as 3,100 kilowatt hours or $310 per year for each usable terabyte of 3PAR Utility Storage deployed.

Through this partnership, CTC has agreed to sell 3PAR Utility Storage through an expert network of sales and pre-sales engineers across Japan who specialize in delivering large enterprise server and storage solutions for Enterprise, Service Provider, and Internet/Web datacenters. CTC has also agreed to offer maintenance services for 3PAR Utility Storage through its proven nationwide support network. The multi-faceted sales and support agreement between CTC and 3PAR offers 3PAR Utility Storage customers in Japan "one stop shopping" through CTC services that range from consultation for developing a comprehensive IT infrastructure strategy through to the delivery of rapid, proven, and secure solutions. CTC offerings also include application and database integration and consolidation, datacenter services, and migration services.

"3PAR applauds CTC's recognition of the economic and energy-saving benefits of utility storage," said David Scott, President and Chief Executive Officer for 3PAR. "CTC is an ideal partner for us given their experience guiding the Japanese market through the adoption of green storage with respect to energy-related datacenter initiatives."

Under the terms of the agreement, CTC currently offers sales and support of all elements of the 3PAR Utility Storage platform, including 3PAR InServ® Storage Server hardware, the 3PAR InForm® Operating System, and 3PAR software products. These software products include 3PAR Thin Provisioning -- designed to improve capacity utilization, 3PAR Dynamic Optimization -- developed to give data mobility across storage tiers, and 3PAR Remote Copy -- 3PAR's disaster recovery solution.

About 3PAR

3PAR® (PAR - News) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, tightly clustered, and dynamically tiered storage arrays built for utility computing. Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR Utility Storage gives customers an alternative to traditional arrays by delivering resilient infrastructure with increased agility at a lower total cost to meet their rapidly changing business needs. As a pioneer of thin provisioning -- a green technology developed to address storage underutilization and inefficiencies -- 3PAR offers products designed to minimize power consumption and promote environmental responsibility. With 3PAR, customers have reduced the costs of allocated storage capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency. 3PAR Utility Storage is built to meet the demands of open systems consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management, and performance-intensive applications. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.

About ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC)

Established in 1972, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) provides advanced IT solutions to enhance enterprise network systems, and offers various outsourcing services, such as operations by its own data centers. CTC supports such market segments as telecommunications, broadcasting, finance, retail, distribution, manufacturing, education, government, medicine, pharmaceutical, chemicals and apparel. CTC has formed partnerships with more than 200 leading IT companies from nine countries. These partnerships range from those with global multinational IT companies to those with highly focused venture businesses. Around 6,500 people work for CTC throughout Japan, and our service edge lies in offering one-stop 7 x 24/365 support in approximately 100 service centers. For more information, visit www.ctc-g.co.jp/en/index.html.

^{[Formatted by Wendy Matthews.]}