SSD over-provisioning used to be a common practice for pretty much anyone who remotely cared about the long-term performance and longevity of their SSDs. These days, though, it has fallen out of ...

What are the key differences among various types of storage thin provisioning implementations? The key differences among storage thin provisioning technologies relate to the level of granularity with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...