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3PAR InForm Software

3PAR^® software offerings include the 3PAR InForm^® Operating System, the InForm Suite, and additional functionality-rich software products that enhance virtualization capabilities of the 3PAR Utility Storage platform.

• InForm Operating System: The foundation of the InForm Software Suite, the Inform Operating System utilizes advanced internal virtualization capabilities within a tightly-clustered and dynamically-tiered array to reduce storage administration time and increase efficiency. Learn how the InForm Operating System reduces complexity with self-managed provisioning capabilities.
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• InForm Suite: 3PAR also sells the InForm Operating System as part of a suite of value-added software products that are otherwise sold separately. Read more to learn about products included in the InForm Suite.

• Virtual Copy: Built on thin copy technology, 3PAR Virtual Copy is a reservationless, non-duplicative snapshot product that allows you to protect and share data from any application, affordably.
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• Remote Copy: 3PAR Remote Copy—built on thin copy technology—delivers a solution that dramatically simplifies remote data replication and disaster recovery in the most flexible and cost-effective way possible.
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• Thin Provisioning: 3PAR Thin Provisioning is an autonomic and efficient solution that improves capacity utilization by enabling you to purchase capacity only as your applications truly require it for written data.
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• Dynamic Optimization: 3PAR Dynamic Optimization allows your organization to align application and business requirements with data service levels easily, precisely, and on demand.
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• Virtual Domains: 3PAR Virtual Domains is virtual machine technology that delivers application and administrative segregation for different user groups while preserving the benefits of the InServ's massive parallelism.
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• Additional Software: Additional 3PAR software products address the needs of specific application environments (such as Oracle®, Microsoft® Exchange, and SQL Server®), multipathing, hotspot remediation, and historical performance and capacity management.

3PAR is committed to open standards and open manageability, and has developed and continues to develop capabilities within the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).