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 ...

At first sight, thin provisioning is not a subject likely to lead to discord. But it can, as journalists and members of HP's management team discovered at the recent StorageWorks conference in Las ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom Henderson is principal researcher for ExtremeLabs and researches and tests enterprise-level hardware and virtual/cloud environments. VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning ...