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Spotlight: Provisioning

By Mark Lewis, Managing Editor

20 Jan 2005 | SearchStorage.com

According to Whatis.com, storage provisioning is the process of assigning storage, usually in the form of server disk drive space, in order to optimize the performance of a storage area network (SAN). Traditionally, this has been done by the SAN administrator, and it can be a tedious process.

And that's where SearchStorage.com is going to pick up on that definition. Is provisioning a tedious process? Ask any storage admin and they'd no doubt concur. Hopefully with these articles, tips and expert advice on provisioning we can help take a bit of the 'T' out of tedious.

Technical advice:

Storage Provisioning

Six requirements for successful provisioning

Best practices for provisioning storage

Part one: Simplifying the storage management process

Is storage automation a bust?

Using provisioning tools

Make sense of SAN management software

Can you really trust automation?

Leading policies and strategies regarding storage management

Lesson 2: Best practices: Storage management operations

Choosing the right provisioning solution