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Ultraspeed is using 3PAR's InServ.The INI Group's Tony Asaro interviewed Jordan Gross of Ultraspeed and Lloyd Nicholson-Taylor of View, an Ultraspeed customer. This is how Jordan describes his role:
“I’m the CEO. I do everything that no one else has time to do as well as setting the strategy and everything else for the business.”
The following is an overview of Ultraspeed’s
IT environment:
- Managed hosting company based in the UK
- SQL databases
- MySQL databases
- Linux
- Windows Servers
- Exchange
- Virtually any web application
 
Listen to individual answers by clicking on the following questions:
- Jordan, please give us a background of your company.
- What’s been the experience with storage in the past?
- What type of applications are your customers using your service for?
- Why did you decide to implement 3PAR InServ storage system as your hosting storage solution?
- Do you take advantage of their utility storage capability?
- Can you share with us the process you went through to decide on which storage system to go with?
- What drove you to select 3PAR?
- Can you give us any examples of how 3PAR has actually provided real value to your company?
- Let’s take that a little bit further, in other ways that the 3PAR has impacted the overall economic effectiveness of your service.
- Do you take advantage of their thin provisioning capability, for example?
- You’re creating virtual storage systems for them, just the way that you are creating virtual servers for them.
- Can you give anybody listening to this any insights to developing this kind of utility model using 3PAR storage?
- What about in terms of managing it because you're managing a lot of different customers, what about your system administrators, what is the challenge for them and or do they find it to be extremely easy to operate in that environment?
- What made you decide to implement thin provisioning and what's been your experience?
- Would you recommend 3PAR InServ to other IT professionals?
- Lloyd, could you give us a background on your company?
- Can you tell us the working relationship with Ultraspeed, how it has improved on your overall effectiveness with providing your service to your customers?
For more information on 3PAR, go to www.3par.com
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