3PAR Goes the Extra Mile for Sport Relief
Utility Storage Company Teams Up With Cloud Computing Specialist Carrenza to Aid Sport Relief’s Donations Platform
FREMONT, CA–(Marketwire – Feb 9, 2010) – 3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the heading tellurian provider
of application storage,
announced currently that it has supposing the backend storage infrastructure to
support the contract estimate engine built for Comic Relief’s
fundraising debate Sport Relief. This rarely virtualized clouded cover computing
infrastructure was built on 3PAR InServ® T-Class Storage Servers with assistance from Comic Relief record partner and
3PAR patron Carrenza Hosting. Carrenza and 3PAR came together to assist
Comic Relief in estimate $29 million in online free contributions
for Red Nose Day in 2009. The corner record concession from 3PAR and
Carrenza for Sport Relief is dictated to await climb Web trade and
donations picked up around the Sport Relief Website (www.sportrelief.com) now
and during the Sport Relief Weekend, that takes place from Friday, March
19th to Sunday, Mar 21st.
Charlotte Melen, Web Technology Programme Manager for Comic Relief,
comments “Since the launch in 2002, millions of people have taken partial in
Sport Relief, assisting to lift over £80 million. Generous contributions
from technical partners similar to 3PAR and Carrenza not usually yield the
infrastructure that creates the online donations possible, but that allows
us to minimize handling losses so that income can go where it is needed
most.”
As with Red Nose Day in 2009, to addition the InServ T-Class Storage
Server already deployed at Carrenza, 3PAR has donated an one some-more 3PAR
InServ T-Class Storage Server to await Comic Relief’s cloud-based
infrastructure during climb debate time. To hoop the expected traffic
increase during the run-up to and during the Sport Relief Weekend, Carrenza
again chose to set up a contract estimate engine regulating 3cV, a
proven plans for rarely virtualized application computing that combines
3PAR Utility Storage with HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades and server
virtualization program from VMware®.
“We had good success regulating 3PAR as the first storage record for Red
Nose Day 2009,” pronounced Dan Sutherland, CEO of Carrenza Hosting. “With help
from 3PAR, we aided Comic Relief in receiving in some-more than a half million
donation exchange over a duration of only 7 hours — three times the
amount of trade upheld on the dusk of the prior Red Nose Day in
2007 and stand in the climb trade ever gifted by the event.”
Sport Relief is a fundraising eventuality organized by Comic Relief each two
years in sequence to move the UK together to get active, lift cash, and
change lives. Funds lifted have done a disproportion to the lives of thousands
of people opposite Africa and the UK who face distressing misapplication or live in
poverty.
“We have been intensely vehement to follow up on the success of Red Nose Day 2009
by ancillary the Sport Relief campaign,” pronounced David Scott, President and
CEO for 3PAR. “We have seen the appearance of clouded cover computing proceed to
transform the datacenter. In partnership with Comic Relief and Carrenza, we
hope that the clouded cover computing infrastructure we have built for Sport Relief
will assistance to renovate lives.”
To find out some-more report about Sport Relief, revisit www.sportrelief.com.
About Sport Relief
As one of the UK’s greatest fundraising events, Sport Relief brings the
entire republic together to get active, lift money and shift lives. The
Sport Relief Weekend takes place from Friday, Mar 19th to Sunday, March
21st 2010 together with a night of Sport Relief telly on BBC One and the
Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile events opposite the UK on Sunday, Mar 21st.
All the money lifted by the open will assistance renovate the lives of those
living difficult lives opposite the UK and the world’s lowest countries.
Since the launch in 2002, millions of people have taken partial in Sport
Relief, assisting to lift over £80 million. Sport Relief has a unique
history of dedicated people you do unusual things to climb to the
challenge, from David Walliams’ startling float opposite the English Channel
to Eddie Izzard’s indeed extraordinary marathon a day around the UK. Further
information is accessible on www.sportrelief.com.
Sport Relief is an beginning of Comic Relief, purebred gift 326568
(England/Wales); SC039730 (Scotland).
About Carrenza
Carrenza provides technical consultancy and craving hosting services to
businesses with perfectionist report exchnage needs. Its flagship clouded cover computing
platform provides a indeed scalable, stretchable computing apparatus and is
backed up by recommendation and plan citation from Carrenza’s consulting team.
Founded in 2001, Carrenza has built a plain bottom of clients, that include:
eBay, Saatchi & Saatchi, PayPal, Tribal DDB, Haymarket, and SDL
International.
For serve report go to http://www.carrenza.com/
About 3PAR
3PAR® (NYSE: PAR) is the heading tellurian provider of application storage, a
category of rarely virtualized and boldly tiered storage arrays built
for open and in isolation clouded cover computing. Our virtualized storage platform
was built from the belligerent up to be flexible and fit to residence the
limitations of normal storage arrays for application infrastructures. As a
pioneer of thin provisioning and alternative storage virtualization technologies,
we pattern the products to revoke energy expenditure to assistance companies meet
their immature computing initiatives, and to cut storage sum price of
ownership. 3PAR business have used the self-managing, efficient, and
adaptable application storage systems to revoke administration department time and
provisioning complexity, to urge server and storage utilization, and to
scale and conform flexibly in reply to successive expansion and changing
business needs. For some-more information, revisit the 3PAR Website at:
www.3PAR.com.
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