The skinny on Hitachi's thin provisioning

Moderator: Peter Burris Analyst: Dave Vellante

Over the last number of years, the storage community has waited expectedly for viable thin provisioning and related technologies to become generally available. The forces behind this anticipation are drawn from multiple locations including end users' growing expectations that the acquisition of storage should be as simple and transparent as using Google Gmail. Demands by CFO's to gain greater control over the rate of storage purchases and overall storage administrator desires to find better ways to manage multiple different forms of storage and storage resources. We've noted in the past that thin provisioning

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