Thin provisioning for the environment? Yes, says 3PAR.

Between the purchase of C02 offsets and the savings of un-bought storage gear that 3PAR's tech allows, the company has been able to take the equivalent of 2,300 cars off the road. Here's a story from a year ago on our main site that explains their storage strategy. Essentially, 3PAR asks IT shops "Why overprovision?"

Let's take a look at some specifics from the press release:

3PAR's Carbon Neutral Storage Initiative, the first of its kind when introduced last year, has achieved tremendous results in its first year. Through this program, 3PAR has purchased carbon credits to offset 4,367 metric tons of CO2 emissions, allowing 3PAR customers to deploy storage capacity that is effectively 100% carbon neutral.

Between the reduction of disk capacity and the purchase of carbon
offsets through both the 2007 Carbon Neutral Storage Initiative and
"Think Thin, Think Green" awards, 3PAR estimates that its efforts in
2007 amounted to reducing CO2 emissions by 12,000 metric tons -- the
equivalent of taking 2,300 cars off the road for an entire year. In
2007 alone, 3PAR customers are estimated to have replaced
approximately 11,000 terabytes of traditional capacity with just
4,367 terabytes of thin storage capacity by deploying 3PAR Thin
Provisioning and thin copy technologies such as 3PAR Virtual Copy and
3PAR Remote Copy.

3PAR plans on advancing the program in '08 for more energy savings and cleaner skies.

Thanks Dan!