The Challenge
Increased demands on IT coupled with the traditional dedication of physical computing and storage resources have led to spiraling server and storage costs, datacenter sprawl, and time-intensive provisioning and change management.

Unique Solution Benefits
Coined by global banking leader Deutsche Bank, 3cV stands for the combination of 3PAR® Utility Storage with HP BladeSystem c-Class and VMware® Infrastructure. A proven blueprint for highly virtualized utility computing, 3cV delivers transformative levels of agility and efficiency to today's challenged IT environments. Elements of this combined utility computing solution include:

• 3PAR InServ Storage Server—highly virtualized tiered-storage array built for utility computing. Organizations creating virtualized IT infrastructures for workload consolidation use 3PAR to reduce the cost of allocated storage capacity, storage administration, and SAN infrastructure.
• HP BladeSystem c-Class—the leading blade server infrastructure on the market for datacenters of all sizes. HP BladeSystem c-Class minimizes energy and space requirements and increases administrative productivity through advantages in I/O virtualization, powering and cooling, and manageability.
• VMware Infrastructure—infrastructure virtualization suite for industry-standard servers. VMware Infrastructure delivers the production-proven efficiency, availability, and dynamic management needed to build the responsive datacenter.

3PAR, HP, and VMware work together closely to assure 3PAR Utility Storage, HP BladeSystem c-Class, and VMware Infrastructure are certified for interoperability. 3PAR is a Premier-level member of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. 3PAR is also a member of the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder Program. Learn more.