8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

October 28, 2009

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

3PAR Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Delaware	001-33823	77-0510671
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification Number)

4209 Technology Drive

Fremont, California 94538

(Address of principal executive offices)

(510) 413-5999

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Section 5 – Corporate Governance and Management

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(d) On October 28, 2009, the Board of Directors of 3PAR Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Michael M. Clair to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors as a Class II Director. Mr. Clair was also appointed to serve as a member of the Company’s Compensation Committee.

Since August 2007, Mr. Clair has served on the board of directors of Phoenix Technologies, Inc., a provider of core PC software and PC virtualization solutions, and has served as the chairman of its board since January 2008. Mr. Clair also chairs both the nominating and corporate governance committee and the compensation committee of Phoenix Technologies. From 1996 until 2006, Mr. Clair served as Chairman of the Board of Intellisync Corporation. Prior to this time, Mr. Clair held various senior and executive management positions at Tymshare Inc., ROLM Corporation and SynOptics Communications, Inc., which he co-founded.

Additionally, Mr. Clair currently serves on the boards of a number of privately-held technology companies, including Corfino, Inc., a provider of online accounting and finance solutions, and NDS Surgical Imaging, Inc. a leading provider of medical imaging technologies and solutions. Mr. Clair also serves on the board of the NCGA Foundation, and the west coast board of the V Foundation for cancer research. Mr. Clair holds a B.S. in Business and Finance and an MBA in Operations Research from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Clair and any other person pursuant to which he was appointed as a director of the Company and Mr. Clair is not party to any transactions with the Company that require disclosure pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

As an independent director of the Company, Mr. Clair will be compensated in accordance with the Company’s independent director compensation program.

A copy of the Company’s press release announcing Mr. Clair’s appointment to the Board of Directors is filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Section 9 – Financial Statements and Exhibits

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

The following exhibit is filed herewith:

99.1   Press Release of 3PAR Inc. dated November 3, 2009

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: November 3, 2009

3PAR INC.
By:	/s/    ADRIEL G. LARES
	Adriel G. Lares
	Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer

Exhibit Index

Exhibit Number	Description
99.1	Press Release of 3PAR Inc. dated November 3, 2009

EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

3PAR US Contact

John D’Avolio

3PAR

+1 510 668 9328

john.davolio@3PAR.com

3PAR UK Contact

Federica Monsone

A₃ Communications for 3PAR

+44 (0) 1252 875 203

fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk

3PAR NAMES MICHAEL M. CLAIR TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Fremont, CA, November 3, 2009—3PAR^® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today the appointment of Michael M. Clair, a co-founder and senior vice president of SynOptics Communications, to 3PAR’s Board of Directors. Clair has joined 3PAR as an independent outside board member and will also serve on the board’s Compensation Committee.

“3PAR has the essential mix of industry-changing technologies, experienced management, and continued innovation which are critical to success in the technology world,” said Clair. “After watching 3PAR’s impact on transforming the way that virtual datacenters and the private cloud approach their storage, I am excited to help guide 3PAR through the next phase of the company’s growth.”

Clair is a technology investor and consultant to Silicon Valley companies. He has worked in the computer and communications industries for over 30 years. Early in his career, he held executive positions at Tymshare and ROLM Corporation. He was previously Chairman of Intellisync, a software company specializing in synchronization and mobility solutions for smart phones, which was acquired by Nokia. Clair is currently Chairman of Phoenix Technologies, a Silicon Valley software company specializing in core personal computer software and virtualization.

“Mike’s strong enterprise sales and operational experience are invaluable to 3PAR, particularly at a period when we are expanding our global sales and support operations and continuing to invest in research and development in line with the company’s long-range vision” said David Scott, President and CEO of 3PAR. “We are pleased to welcome him to the board and believe that his experience will continue to help guide 3PAR towards our goal of becoming the next major storage platform company of the twenty-first century.”

About 3PAR

3PAR^® (NYSE: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized and dynamically tiered storage arrays built for public and private cloud computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground up to be agile and efficient to address the limitations of traditional storage arrays for utility infrastructures. As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our products to reduce power consumption to help companies meet their green computing initiatives, and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR customers have

used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server and storage utilization, and to scale and adapt flexibly in response to continuous growth and changing business needs. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.

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