Cornerstone OnDemand Selects HP 3par StoreServ

Hewlett-Packard
Development Company, L.P. announced that Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., cloud-based management software provider, has selected HP 3PAR StoreServ
Storage to support future growth and simplify storage management by increasing
data center capacity.

Cornerstone’s cloud services help
organizations maximize workforce potential, develop skills and manage the
employee life cycle from hiring to retirement. The company has grown at a rate
of 60% per year since 2007, with a subscriber base that has more than doubled
over the past two years. Cornerstone needed to replace its legacy EMC
infrastructure to ensure around-the-clock application performance for its more
than 10.5 million worldwide subscribers. It also needed to reduce time-intensive data
center maintenance to avoid service disruptions.

By upgrading to 3PAR StoreServ Storage,
Cornerstone was able to quadruple its data center capacity and performance
without increasing infrastructure footprint or energy costs. As a result,
subscribers experience consistent application access, even as demand escalates.
Additionally, the company achieved faster response times via a 20% reduction in
latency. This performance gain has diminished risk of downtime and increased
Cornerstone’s BC by reducing backup time by 90%.

"Cornerstone
OnDemand needed a storage solution that could seamlessly accommodate the
company’s global growth while mitigating data center administration time and
complexities," said Justin Ferris, senior director, technical operations,
Cornerstone OnDemand. "The level of scalability
and performance delivered by HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage enables our business to
grow without ongoing hardware upgrades or intensive maintenance to ensure
superior customer satisfaction."

In addition to improving capacity and
performance, the 3PAR StoreServ P10000 Storage system deployed at
Cornerstone has reduced data center management time by 20 hours per week.
Systemwide striping, a function of the system’s enterprise architecture,
automatically writes data across all system resources to increase throughput.
As a result, workloads are automatically balanced across all resources,
ensuring optimal performance under constantly shifting demands.

3PAR StoreServ also offers system
redundancy, via multiple controllers, allowing Cornerstone to perform
maintenance any time without impacting workflow.

Cornerstone also has reduced
administration time with 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software, which automates
the rapid ‘thinning’ of storage
volumes by identifying and removing unused pockets of disk capacity. As a
result, traditional storage volumes are reduced by 50% or more, and converted
into thin-provisioned volumes on Cornerstone’s 3PAR StoreServ Storage
system. The significant increase in capacity utilization as compared to its
legacy EMC storage infrastructure has reduced Cornerstone’s storage footprint
and power consumption while also mitigating its need for future hardware
investments. 

When future growth requires additional
hardware, Cornerstone can implement and provision HP servers with HP Converged
Storage solutions, core components of HP Converged Infrastructure, twice as
fast as it could with its legacy EMC architecture.

In the near term, Cornerstone plans to
implement 3PAR Remote Copy and 3PAR Virtual Copy software at its DR sites
to provide instant point-in-time data snapshots for rapid application recovery. 

Value-added solutions from HP Financial
Services enabled Cornerstone to expand the reach and impact of its technology
budget while providing the flexibility needed to quickly upgrade to the 3PAR
StoreServ Storage solution. 

Cornerstone worked with its preferred
reseller partner Softchoice Corporation,
an HP direct marketing specialist under the HP PartnerOne
program. Softchoice assisted Cornerstone in configuring, quoting and
delivering HP Converged Infrastructure solutions to the company. 

"To
meet expanding data-growth demands, organizations require scalable storage
solutions that deliver high performance levels with minimal administration,"
said Chris Riley, VP, US, storage, HP. "HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage enables Cornerstone OnDemand to grow without
data capacity or management limitations so its clients receive the best possible
service." 

HP’s America’s client event, HP Discover, will take place June 11-13 in
Las Vegas, NE.