Archive for May, 2007
Thin and Wide
Posted in Virtualization on May 27, 2007 2 Comments »
By now there have been a number of good articles and blog posts that help explain the concept of thin provisioning. Some of the better ones have been posted by Tony Asaro and Marc Farley.
Dynamic or Thin Provisioning
Posted in Virtualization on May 20, 2007 2 Comments »
Since Hitachi announced the new USP V with Dynamic Provisioning last Monday, there has been a lot of buzz about the dynamic or “thin provisioning” capabilities of this platform. Popular blogs like RupturedMonkey have had some interesting discussions about this, and other vendors have been rushing to publicizing their thin provisioning capabilities, or announcing their intent to [...]
Going Beyond Virtualization
Posted in Sustainability, Virtualization on May 14, 2007 3 Comments »
Today, Hitachi and Hitachi Data Systems announced the new Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, which will take us to new levels of virtualization, performance, scalability, and delivery of storage as a service.
Mark Lewis’ Virtualization Principle
Posted in Virtualization on May 6, 2007 3 Comments »
I appreciate the post that Mark Lewis made on The Virtualization Principle since it finally gives me the opportunity to understand his thoughts around storage virtualization.
