3PAR Intros Thin Copy Desktop

FREMONT, Calif. -- 3PAR (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI, an integrated virtual desktop provisioning and management solution for VMware® Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI is designed to let customers automatically provision hundreds of high-performance virtual desktops that consume only a fraction of the bandwidth and storage capacity required with traditional storage. By leveraging the unique performance benefits of 3PAR Utility Storage, 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI offers customers cost-effective and simple storage scaling for VMware VDI environments.

“Many of our customers already use 3PAR strategically for their VMware deployments to achieve greater I/O performance to disk, increased capacity utilization, and reliable and affordable instant point-in-time copies of their data,” said David Scott, President and CEO of 3PAR. “With 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI, organizations can now consider both server consolidation and centralized desktop management served from a single resilient utility storage platform.”

3PAR Inc.