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All suppliers need a thin provisioning strategy

Vendors of high end storage subsystems should continue to aggressively invest in thin provisioning. Since 3PAR has popularized the approach, Hitachi has enhanced its thin provisioning functionality (providing support for external devices) and EMC has introduced support for thin provisioning on DMX. Key to adoption will be helping customers understand where the technology fits, where it doesn't and ISV support of thin provisioning, an area that needs more attention by established players.

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Featured Case Study

Virtualization Energizes Cal State University

John Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years.

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Featured How-To Note

Storage Virtualization Design and Deployment

A main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center.

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