ONStor and 3PAR Enable Holiday Consumers to Shop Around the Clock

CAMPBELL and FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- ONStor and 3PAR today announced that online retail giant, Shopzilla, will rely on ONStor Bobcat NAS Gateways and 3PAR InServ Storage Servers, a utility-class combination called UtiliCat Unified Storage, to support the storage demands driven by the official kickoff of the holiday shopping season, Black Friday. With 1.3 million unique visitors on Black Friday in 2005, Shopzilla was named by Nielsen/NetRatings as one of the top 10 online shopping destinations. Such high traffic volumes require a storage infrastructure with the performance to rapidly respond to shopper searches while keeping data available 24x7.

"Last year, online holiday shopping grew 30 percent with consumers spending $30 billion," said Burzin Engineer, director of infrastructure services at Shopzilla. "This season we anticipate continued growth, which is why it is critical that Shopzilla visitors have ready access to the 60 million items and more than 80,000 stores searched on our site. To make this happen we rely heavily on ONStor and 3PAR for a storage infrastructure that delivers the performance and reliability demanded by our site."

During a typical holiday season day, Shopzilla expects to see 70 percent more unique visits than average, driving a 35 percent increase in storage IO requests. With the utility-class combination of 3PAR Utility Storage and ONStor Bobcat, Shopzilla is able to keep operations running smoothly and provide the performance and scalability to meet the content delivery demands of the site year-round. Through 3PAR's massive parallelism and automatic load balancing, achieving high and stable levels of performance is dramatically simplified. ONStor's Bobcat enables up to 280,000 operations/sec with real time load balancing and integrated server virtualization that enables non-stop throughput.

"In the spirit of the holiday season we're pleased to be giving the gift of storage performance and reliability to Shopzilla," said Jon Toor, VP of marketing at ONStor. "As site traffic peaks this time of year, it's critical that users receive immediate responses as they search the vast product and merchant selection of Shopzilla. By keeping Shopzilla's information available and accessible, ONStor and 3PAR enable site visitors to find what they need in time for the holidays."

"More often, online shoppers start at aggregator sites like Shopzilla, increasing the demand for a robust and responsive e-commerce infrastructure," said Craig Nunes, VP of marketing at 3PAR. "3PAR and ONStor provide Shopzilla with a simple, scalable and responsive storage platform that keeps holiday shoppers merry and bright."

About 3PAR

3PAR is the leading provider of Utility Storage, a simple, efficient and massively scalable tiered-storage array for utility computing that lets customers serve more with less. 3PAR Utility Storage can cut an organization's Total Cost of Data by 50%. Capacity purchases and related costs can be cut by 75% while storage administration and associated expenses can be reduced by 90%. 3PAR Utility Storage is ideal for open systems storage consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management and performance-intensive applications.

3PAR is based in Fremont, California, and has offices in Bracknell, UK, Stuttgart, Germany, and Tokyo, Japan. The company's corporate headquarters are located at 4209 Technology Drive, Fremont, CA 94538. Phone: 510-413-5999, fax: 510-354-3070, email: salesinfo@3pardata.com, Web site: http://www.3par.com.

About ONStor

ONStor drives down the cost of storage management by delivering enterprise-class file storage systems at affordable prices. ONStor's award winning Pantera Clustered NAS Systems and Bobcat NAS Gateways consolidate information from multiple Windows, UNIX and Linux devices to a single, highly scalable storage environment. Proven at hundreds of enterprise customer sites, ONStor delivers the cost effective approach to scalable storage. More information about ONStor can be found at http://www.ONStor.com or by calling toll-free 877-2ON-STOR (877-266-7867).