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 ...

Even more important, the new Thin Reclamation API allows those arrays to automatically reclaim storage capacity that has been allocated for specific applications, said Thomas Cornely, director of ...

When we ask application owners about what they like least about storage services within their organizations, storage provisioning ranks at or near the top of the list. Storage provisioning typically ...

Storage is not to be left out of the automation wave sweeping through corporate networks. One of the hottest developments in storage resource management is automated provisioning – software for easing ...

Standards efforts underway in the storage industry could help pave the way for heterogeneous storage provisioning capabilities, allowing companies to easily allocate storage resources from multiple ...