3PAR Names VeriStor North American Partner of the Year for Third Year in a Row

FREMONT, Calif. and ATLANTA, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- 3PAR^® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, and VeriStor Systems Inc., the Southeast region's leading enterprise data storage and virtualization solution provider, today announced that VeriStor has been named 3PAR's 2009 North American Channel Partner of the Year for the third consecutive year. With this award, 3PAR has recognized VeriStor for its continued service excellence in architecting, delivering, and supporting advanced enterprise storage solutions built on 3PAR InServ^® Storage Servers.  

"VeriStor is a partner that stands for all of the value, expertise, and service excellence we are passionate about delivering to our customers," said Craig Nunes, Vice President of Marketing at 3PAR. "While customers continue to seek ways to get more value for their budget, VeriStor is a leading expert in architecting storage and virtualization solutions that enable customers to do more with less. We are thrilled to again recognize them as our North American Partner of the Year."

"We are once again honored to be recognized as 3PAR's North American Partner of the Year," said Ashby Lincoln, CEO, VeriStor. "The 3PAR Utility Storage platform continues to help us design the agile and efficient infrastructure that delivers an impressive total cost of ownership for our mutual customers.  3PAR is a core component of our enterprise private cloud infrastructure initiatives for 2010 and beyond."

VeriStor specializes in architecting storage and virtualization environments for mid-market and enterprise customers. VeriStor has been a 3PAR partner since 2005.

About 3PAR:

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized and dynamically tiered storage arrays built for public and private cloud computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground up to be agile and efficient to address the limitations of traditional storage arrays for utility infrastructures. As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our products to reduce power consumption to help companies meet their green computing initiatives, and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR customers have used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server and storage utilization, and to scale and adapt flexibly in response to continuous growth and changing business needs. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.

About VeriStor Systems, Inc.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., VeriStor Systems is a Solutions Architecture firm specializing exclusively in enterprise data storage and virtual infrastructure. VeriStor's integrated solutions include Storage, Server and Desktop Virtualization, Virtual IO & Consolidated Fabric, Fibre Channel and iSCSI Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), De-Duplication, Backup and Recovery, Data Replication, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Compliance Archiving. With more than 300 customers, VeriStor specializes in enterprise and mid-market companies in all industries throughout the Southeast including financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, education and federal, state and local government. More information can be found at http://www.veristor.com/.

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