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 ...

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 ...

Burton Bollag contributed to this report. The mounds of extraterrestrial data collected by NASA satellites and rockets raise a down-to-earth question: What should be done with all that information?

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 ...

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

The concept of thin provisioning in storage has been around for longer than many people think. I first used space-efficient volumes in the early 1990s on StorageTek’s Iceberg storage array, later ...

Given the continuing growth of the amount of data businesses must store and manage, it often appears that storage solution providers have to resort to magic tricks to make some of the required ...

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, a great feature for virtual machines, uses the disk space required instead of what is allocated. I frequently refer to the Windows pie graph that displays used and free space as a ...