Need to create snapshots for data backup, application recovery, business intelligence, and to expedite development and testing? HPE 3PAR Virtual Copy software flexibly delivers instant, point-in-time (PIT) copies of your data so you can share and protect data from any application simply and affordably. Use Virtual Copy to stay ahead while containing costs with a "thin-aware" implementation that minimizes the amount of physical capacity that is actually being consumed by your data - and without sacrificing performance, availability, or versatility. Most traditional copy solutions lack flexibility and require too great an investment in online capacity to be considered economical. Virtual Copy software is a reservationless, non-duplicative, copy-on-write product that consumes capacity only for changed data, in fine-grained increments, and without ever duplicating changed data within a snapshot tree.