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?

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

When IT administrators consider implementing thin provisioning for storage, it’s not as easy as simply checking a box on an RFP, it’s more than that as 3PAR’s InServ storage system and the newest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even more important, the new Thin Reclamation API allows those arrays to automatically reclaim storage capacity that has been allocated for specific applications, said Thomas Cornely, director of ...

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 ...

Halfway through calendar year 2007, trends in the data storage business are becoming more defined. Decision makers at enterprises are now more aware of such topics as carbon footprints, green data ...