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 ...

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, a great feature for virtual machines, uses the disk space required instead of what is allocated. I frequently refer to the Windows pie graph that displays used and free space as a ...

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 ...

The first step in the implementation of any storage system is the allocation of capacity to servers and applications.Thin provisioning separates the logical representation of storage from the ...

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 ...

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?

There are several advantages conveyed by cloud computing that most IT professionals don't often consider. One such advantage is automated provisioning. The prime advantage of automated provisioning in ...