3PAR Supports IBM Clusters

FREMONT, Calif. -- 3PAR, the leading provider of Utility Storage, announced today 3PAR InServ® Storage Server support for IBM® High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing for AIX (HACMP). HACMP cluster technology is IBM's flagship high availability technology that provides monitoring, failure detection and automated recovery of business applications on IBM AIX servers. For the first time, HACMP customers can deploy Utility Storage--a simple, cost-efficient and massively scalable storage platform--to complement their mission-critical AIX environments.

"IBM HACMP technology brings customers peace of mind with superior planned and unplanned downtime protection,” said Jeffrey Howard, IBM’s Director of System p Offering Management. “Now with 3PAR support for HACMP clusters, high availability AIX customers have access to the benefits of IBM HACMP technology and 3PAR Utility Storage.”

3PAR Inc.