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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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 ...

Neil Bright is a research scientist and chief HPC architect at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Office of IT. The arguments for hyperconvergence are compelling: Ease of deployment, reduced effort ...

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 ...

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced libStorage, a vendor and platform-agnostic storage orchestration, model and API. The first open source technology of its kind, libStorage elevates storage ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the key steps in addressing the issue of depleted bandwidth is accepting the idea that some types of storage cost more than others (I'll revisit this theme later on). You can look at a storage ...