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Thin provisioning: Start where it's safe

Users should aggressively assess thin provisioning for enterprise storage systems. Start with tier 2 and tier 3 applications and understand the costs, application nuances, process changes and ISV support offered. Use the next six to nine months as a learning runway which will speed adoption and time-to-benefit when the next round of announcements hits the market.

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Financial Firm Implements Tiered Storage

CS2 is a financial organization and significant merger and acquisition activity has led to a mixture of storage and storage management tools behind nine SANs, with poor storage utilization. The charge back system does not reflect all the storage costs and has led to Symmetrix being used extensively for tier 2 storage.

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Implementing Tiered Storage

Traditional methods of managing storage use either a “one size fits all” strategy, or a "Mix, Match and Manage" approach introducing many different storage pools. The challenge of the first technique is high equipment cost, whereas the latter often brings higher labor costs to manage the multiple storage pools all with different software, services and procedures. Creating storage tiers with more granularity with a single management approach begins to address the problems that one size does not fit all and storage pools are hard to manage.

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