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3PAR Inc. was a manufacturer of systems and software for data storage and information management headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. 3PAR produced enterprise storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management software. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2010. ==History== 3PAR was founded in 1999. The founders included Jeffrey Price and Ashok Singhal, the P and A in the company's name. The R stands for a third partner, Robert Rogers, who left the company in 2001. David Scott became president and CEO in January 2001. 3PAR first shipped the InServ storage server in September 2002. 3PAR's primary competitors in the enterprise storage market are EMC Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems and IBM. 3PAR has been called a "pioneer and champion"〔(Infoworld, PG&E adds thin provisioning to energy-saving incentive program )〕〔(Reuters, 3PAR Customers Eligible for PG&E Incentives )〕 for thin provisioning,〔(Byte and Switch, 3PAR Debut's 'thin provisioning' ) 〕 a mechanism to improve the utilization efficiency of storage capacity deployment. 3PAR first announced this capability in June 2002 and shipped it to customers in 2003. In September 2007, 3PAR opened a second research and development office in Belfast, Northern Ireland.〔(Economy Minister Nigel Dodds announces arrival of 3PAR to Northern Ireland )〕 The company completed an initial public offering in November 2007〔(East Bay Times, 3PAR's stock soars in debut ) 〕 and was initially listed on the NYSE arca. In the same month, 3PAR introduced Virtual Domains, which allow for secure application data isolation on a consolidated multi-tenant storage platform. In December 2008, 3PAR moved to the NYSE Big Board. One year later, the 3PAR opened an Indian subsidiary in Bangalore focused on providing logistical and administrative support for its Global Services and Support operations. In March 2010, the company introduced 3PAR Adaptive Optimization, the industry's first implementation of Autonomic Storage Tiering for cost optimization in high-end storage systems, targeted at enterprises and service providers. In April 2010, the company was recognized by ''Forbes'' magazine as the fourth fastest growing technology company in its Tech25 list.〔(Forbes, America's Fastest Growing Tech Companies )〕 3PAR supplies its customers through a direct sales force in the US, the UK, Germany and Canada. It also supplies its InServ platform through storage systems integrators and channel partners in other countries around the world including Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, India, Australia, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Norway and South Africa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HP 3PAR」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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