3PAR Certifies Oracle VM: Houston, Maximized Possibilities will Finally be Landing
Recently acquired by Hewlett-Packard, international provider of utility storage 3PAR has announced official support and certification for the particularly efficient and cost-effective application virtualization provider Oracle VM, starting from November 2010:
“3PAR Utility Storage has brought high levels of efficiency, performance, and flexibility to our Oracle Red Stack cloud service offering,” said Marc A. Caruso, Vice President of Service Management at Data Intensity, Inc., in a released statement. “3PAR’s support for Oracle VM means that we can deliver mission-critical applications on a shared, virtualized, cloud-ready storage platform with the quality-of-service and agility that our customers need.”
The combination of the individual features (now only amplified, said Monica Kumar, senior director, Product Marketing, Oracle) of both Oracle VM and 3PAR will allow customers that build private and public clouds to significantly increase virtual server performance and efficiency, hence lower the number of physical servers by a percentage to match, lower overall costs, utilize the ability of 3PAR to reduce storage administration time by around 90% at the same time and more, while basing their mission-critical applications on a more flexible infrastructure. This can and will create a more scalable and lean datacenter that will respond to changing user and application workloads without a less-efficient, time and money consuming administrator intervention.
Furthermore, it will also expand the scale of their (the clients) offerings, even in the form of introducing Oracle VM itself as a service of its own.
Having been acquired by HP for $2 billion dollars, 3PAR will need to continue its current path with its partnerships (including being a gold member in Oracle’s own partner network) in order to remain accessible to its clients. Regardless, this latest announcement by 3PAR is definitely another step in the right direction, particularly as it pertains to cloud structuring and the provision of an array of products to clients.
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