Tony Lock, programme director at analyst group Freeform Dynamics, answers common questions on thin provisioning. His answers are also available below as an MP3 download. A. Explaining thin ...

'Thin provisioning' became a big storage buzzword a few years back, but how many of us actively use it now? Not all that long ago, thin provisioning became a feature that storage vendors were tripping ...

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 ...

Next-generation storage networks are all about dynamic allocation of resources, and thin provisioning can get that job done quickly and easily – but not carefree. Next-generation storage is all about ...

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 ...

Clustered storage vendor Isilon this week is joining the ranks of vendors that claim to do thin provisioning of storage. Isilon Systems, which went public last year, launched SmartQuotas, storage ...

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 ...

I'm using a SAN for VM storage that supports thin provisioning the volumes as well as vSphere 4 which supports thin provisioning VMs. What is the best way to go about this? Seems like if space on the ...

HDS OEM customer Hewlett-Packard also unveiled its version of the new array, with reseller partner Sun Microsystems also expected to announce in the near future the availability of the array to its ...

Lets say you setup thin-provisioning on a LUN (LUN A) and initially it's sized to 100GB but only uses 10GB (assume the data is being written in a contiguous matter), then another LUN (LUN B) is ...

Hitachi Data Systems Corp. gave its storage virtualization software a whole new look with Monday’s introduction of a slew of enhancements designed to boost hardware performance, maximize installed ...