Software efficiencies rely on built-in storage virtualization capabilities of advanced storage arrays and include capabilities such as
thin provisioning, deduplication, and file cloning.
According to TheInfoPro's most recent Storage Study (Q4 2009), over a six-month period (from Q2 2009 to Q4 2009),
thin provisioning became more than twice as likely to be a top initiative for Fortune 1000 storage professionals -- moving it to the top of TheInfoPro's Storage Management Technology Heat Index, which gauges the immediacy of user need and planned spending.
Storage Savings "Hero" Reports: Translates use of technologies like
thin provisioning, continuous snapshots and automated tiered storage into real IT cost savings that administrators can provide to their senior management as financial "hero" reports.
DataCore has made this state-of-the-art storage automation feature also known as
thin provisioning or auto- grow' disk space affordable and simple to use by all.
In addition, the switches enable IT mangers to do "
thin provisioning" of storage, because additional capacity can be added without downtime or disruption to user access.
With the support of VASA, users can easily acquire detailed information of their EonStor DS RAID storage systems include storage health status, configuration, capacity,
thin provisioning, etc.
These benefits combined with feature-rich capabilities including high availability, WAN-optimized replication,
thin provisioning, snapshots, auto-tiering and more, make the new StorTrends 3500i the ideal choice for even the most demanding environments.”
In the big data arena, IBM tweaked its high performance System Storage DCS3700 and DS3500 Express disk arrays, enhancing their snapshotting and virtualisation while adding
thin provisioning capabilities.