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Adriel Lares, CFO

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Gabe Gotthard, VP Marketing

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Jeannette Robinson, VP HR

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Bob Rando, VP Sales

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Randy Gast, VP Operations

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Ashok Singhal, CTO/co-Founder

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Jeff Price, VP Engineering/co-Fdr

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RJ Weigel, VP Sales

3PAR NAMES NORTH AMERICAN COMMERCIAL REGIONAL SALES VP

FREMONT, CA, August 21, 2007

3PAR®, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today the appointment of RJ Weigel as Regional Vice President of North American Commercial Sales. Weigel brings to 3PAR twenty years of senior sales experience at Network Appliance and Cisco Systems and a track record of direct sales management success.

Weigel will oversee 3PAR's North American Commercial Sales organization, responsible for overall sales execution and customer satisfaction. In this role, he will lead 3PAR's efforts to grow its revenues, customer base, and sales organization. Weigel will report to 3PAR's Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Jim Dawson, and will continue to work from his current location in Dallas, Texas.

Weigel joins 3PAR from Network Appliance, where he served as Central Area Vice President of Sales. During his five and a half years at NetApp®, Weigel led a very aggressive expansion effort in the Central U.S., contributing to significant year-over-year revenue growth in that area for the past two years. Weigel also executed a plan with NetApp's professional services leadership team that resulted in the substantial growth in consulting services offerings in the 2007 fiscal year.

Prior to NetApp, Weigel spent seven years at Cisco Systems in a number of different leadership positions, including Operations Director for the Southwest. In this role he expanded Cisco's footprint in the Commercial Enterprise market space. Under his leadership many of his teams were able to achieve growth in excess of 50% year over year. Weigel was also chosen many times as the featured field speaker for the Cisco New Hire Training program.

Weigel, who resides in the Dallas, Texas area, holds a BA in Communications from the University of Iowa.

"RJ Weigel was our top choice on a short list of extremely qualified candidates. RJ's industry experience combined with his effective sales leadership and a proven track record of driving high-growth business is invaluable," said Jim Dawson, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for 3PAR. "We believe that RJ is joining 3PAR at an ideal time and that he will add significant value to our sales organization--we couldn't be more pleased."

About 3PAR
3PAR is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized tiered-storage arrays built for utility computing. 3PAR Utility Storage allows users to reliably serve more with less. Organizations creating virtualized IT infrastructures for workload consolidation and flexible resource allocation use 3PAR to reduce the costs of allocated storage capacity, storage administration and SAN infrastructure. Distinct advantages in simplicity, efficiency, and massive scalability make 3PAR Utility Storage well-suited for open systems storage consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management, and performance-intensive applications. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.

© 2007 3PAR Inc. All rights reserved. 3PAR, the 3PAR logo, Serving Information, InServ, InForm, and InSpire are all registered trademarks of 3PAR Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Sherman Fan, Controller

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Jim Dawson, VP Sales

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Alastair Short, General Counsel

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Paul Harvey, VP Customer Service

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Steve Crimi, VP Business Development & Alliances

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Rob Eckardt, Sales Director

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John Taffinder, General Manager

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David Scott, President/CEO

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Milt Spiegelhauer, Director of Sales

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Craig Nunes, VP Marketing

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Board of Directors

Christopher Paisley

TOP SILICON VALLEY FINANCIAL EXECUTIVE JOINS THE EQUINIX BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND WILL CHAIR AUDIT COMMITTEE

Foster City, CA – July 23, 2007 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, today announced that Christopher Paisley has joined Equinix’s board of directors and will chair its audit committee. The addition of Mr. Paisley will increase the size of Equinix’s board to eight members.

Mr. Paisley has built his distinguished career as one of the top financial executives in Silicon Valley. Until 2000, he served as senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer of 3Com Corporation, and during his 15-year tenure, company revenues grew from $50 million to nearly $6 billion annually. Mr. Paisley is currently the Dean's Executive Professor of Accounting and Finance in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

"We are delighted to have Chris join Equinix’s Board of Directors," said Peter Van Camp, Executive Chairman of Equinix. "Chris’ exemplary financial credentials, his wealth of understanding of technology companies and his deep knowledge of today's complex financial accounting regulations will bring strong oversight to our audit committee as well as contribute to the overall leadership provided by our outstanding board of directors."

Prior to 3Com, Mr. Paisley served as chief financial officer and vice president of finance at Ridge Computers, and he began his career at Hewlett-Packard. He earned his MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles and his bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of California at Santa Barbara. Mr. Paisley currently serves on the board of directors for two other public companies: Electronics for Imaging and Volterra Semiconductor Corporation. He previously served on eight other company boards and has chaired the audit committee for nine of the ten boards on which he has served.

About Equinix

Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services for enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and network services providers. Through the company’s Internet Business Exchange™ (IBX®) centers in 10 markets in the U.S. and Asia, customers can directly interconnect with every major global network and ISP for their critical peering, transit and traffic exchange requirements. These interconnection points facilitate the highest performance and growth of the Internet by serving as neutral and open marketplaces for Internet infrastructure services, allowing customers to expand their businesses while reducing costs.

Mark Siegel

Prior to joining Menlo Ventures in 1996, Mark Siegel held product management and consulting management positions at Oracle Corporation and worked in business development at Netscape Communications Corporation. At Menlo Ventures, Mark is focused on early-stage software and communications companies. His recent investments and board seats include: 3PAR, Authoria, Covalent Technologies, diCarta, Emptoris, Phiar, Questra, Sitara Networks, and Tera Systems.

Mark is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering) and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.).

Kevin Fong

In addition to providing leadership to the Mayfield partnership, Kevin Fong is recognized as an entrepreneur, successful investor, and philanthropist. He also heads up the communications group at Mayfield. Prizing innovation as the key criteria for success, Kevin currently serves on the Board of Directors of 3PARdata, Cierra Photonics, Hammerhead Systems, ONStor, Digeo Inc., Monet Mobile Networks and Tasman Networks. A compelling community presence, Kevin is also on the boards of the Community Foundation Silicon Valley and Palo Alto Medical Foundation. He co-founded Silicon Valley Social Ventures (SV2) and is an invited member of the American Leadership Forum. His philanthropic work has been recognized nationally at the White House Conference on Philanthropy. Kevin holds an M.B.A. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley.

James Wei

ames Wei focuses on connecting the technology innovation and dynamism of U.S. start-ups with rapidly growing markets and partnering opportunities around the world. During his 12 years of technology investing, James has helped build leaders in semiconductor and communications markets. He was recently named one of Forbes Magazine's Top 100 Venture Capitalists. He has led or co-led successful investments in companies that include AFC, Catena Networks, Ciena, CommQuest, Corvis, Cosine, Mirapoint, MMC, NeoMagic, NVIDIA, Oplink, Silicon Spice, Tellium and Tivoli. James currently serves on the Boards of Directors of 3ParData, Cogent Communications, Commverge Solutions, Force10 Networks, Movaz Networks, ONStor, Stretch, Tensilica and XHP.

Before founding Worldview, James was a Fund Manager at JAFCO, where he sponsored investments and created Asian business development strategies for U.S. technology companies. Prior to JAFCO, he held engineering positions at Sony and IBM. He is a founder and an investment committee member of Meritech Capital, a late-stage information technology fund with $1.8 billion under management. James holds a B.S. degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

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