In the middle of several blogs on thin provisioning, the economic sweet spot, the economic justification and how to determine payback.
First, some articles on this topic, and the HDS offering from Wikibon.
Second, the added cost of thin provisioning has been defined as $1-per-GB.
Then go tell your CFO about thin provisioning.

With the announcement of the USP-V storage platform, HDS now offers HDP software and functionality for Thin Provisioning. Gartner, IDC, ITCentrix all have written extensively about this technology. All of the papers that I have read talk about the qualitative benefits, I would like to dig into to qualitative info on this technology.
Primarily, where is […]

“Does this storage array make my hips look big?” I know this is probably the front-end of a really bad data center joke, told late at night during a microcode upgrade. Nevertheless, our storage arrays are sort of chunky… lots of excess waste or unallocated (or unallocatable) capacity that is visible by IT management. When […]

I had an old stack of articles, destined for my airplane downtime/read-time. I came across a great article that I must have missed from last month’s Storage Magazine, this article is Power costs put the squeeze on storage. I recommend the read, even if you do not have TCO models that need to be updated.
 Some […]

People have been reading my blog, or have heard me speak somewhere and often ask about the ‘money’ involved with Thin Provisioning or the order of events and the relationship to cost reductions. I have concluded that there is not a separation of the Storage Costs and the Cost Reduction Events. This is an easy […]

Of the 32 types of storage ownership costs, number 30 is probably the most discussed, and has the most effort extended toward this cost category. #30 is the cost of risk associated with a catastrophic outage or disaster.
Describing this storage TCO element is easy: Companies that do not have a disaster recovery or business continuity […]

This is item #28 of the 32 types of storage ownership costs. This single category generate more discussion than almost any other items in the list of 32.
The basic premise is that high rates of waste (white space, unallocated, allocated but not used) represents an opportunity cost to the IT department, since capacity was purchased […]

I was reading some old articles while at the airport yesterday; several sent to me from colleagues around the world were on the topic of environmental costs and the IT impact to electricity consumption. I have noted this impact in a recent blog as electricity costs are one of the 32 that make up storage […]

Several times a week, I check on my Dallas Mavericks, to see where they are in the NBA standings. This week, I also checked out my own standing on the estimated 55 million bloggers. According to Technorati, I am ranked 284,864. I am so happy, think I will add this to my Christmas letter……
I would […]

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