While provisioning all the capacity of an external disk to a given application, known as full provisioning, ensures the app has plenty of growth potential, it results in poor utilization rates, a ...

Thin provisioning, on the other hand, allows a storage administrator to allocate more capacity to specific applications or users than is physically available, under the assumption that not all those ...

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Hitachi Data Systems on Monday unveiled the Universal Storage Platform V series, a single device that the company says offers a complete, multi-purpose storage environment that can be run off a single ...

VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...

When IT administrators consider implementing thin provisioning for storage, it’s not as easy as simply checking a box on an RFP, it’s more than that as 3PAR’s InServ storage system and the newest ...

• Thin provisioning was initially introduced at the storage level. However, recently VMware and Hyper V introduced thin provisioning at the Hypervisor level. Storage virtual provisioning gives an ...

Storage administrators know the drill: Someone in the organization needs extra capacity allocated to a new application. How much is enough? Most end up overallocating to cover both current and ...

I’m planning to take a look at thin provisioning. Seems plenty of vendors are talking up the technology but I am trying to gauge where the trade-offs lie. Reads one of my messages this week. Please ...

Leading storage vendors have recently added support for Symantec's industry standard Thin Reclamation AP, Symantec announced. The Symantec Thin Reclamation API enables automated space reclamation for ...

I have a Win 10 Pro/64 box with 4 SATA drive bays that I'm using as a 2nd-tier backup storage box (Veeam repository). When I first populated the box, I did a "thin provisioning" and created a 16 TB ...

Not long ago, recopying data from tape when a hard drive died could take a day or two for the IT department at Ohio State's Fisher College of Business. Simply adding new storage when a disk filled up ...