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Thin provisioning storage brings utilization and capacity benefits, but with a caveat
Thin provisioning storage can deliver capacity and utilization benefits to enterprise data storage environments, but it's been hobbled by concerns over capacity allocation overload and sluggish support from major vendors. Tutorial
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Improving storage utilization with thin provisioning
Investment company Maxim Group LLC uses FalconStor Software's Network Storage Server arrays to gain control of storage utilization, and clears capacity for data replication via thin provisioning. Feature
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Is data deduplication right for your primary storage infrastructure?
What are the requirements of deduplicating primary storage? Find out what to do before undertaking a primary deduplication project and the vendor options for primary dedupe. Tip
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3PAR fattens its thin provisioning arsenal
3PAR adds applications to solve thin provisioning problems by converting fat volumes to thin, and keeping thin volumes thin over time. Article
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Storage virtualization benefits: Increasing flexibility and utilization with virtualization
Our E-Guide will help storage professionals understand storage virtualization benefits and get started with their own storage virtualization project by providing purchasing tips, file virtualization best practices and more. E-Guide
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How to select a storage resource management (SRM) tool
SRM tools can help you evaluate and leverage your storage infrastructure. Learn the best practices for selecting an SRM tool and how SRM technology can reclaim orphaned storage. FAQ
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The expanding tiered storage model
The tiered storage model is growing, with solid-state drives (SSDs) at the top and cloud backup at the bottom. Find out how these two storage tiers can fit into your storage infrastructure, and learn about changes within the other tiers of storage. Tutorial
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Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity: Improve efficiency and utilization
Learn how to maximize your enterprise data storage capacity by improving efficiency and increasing utilization of storage systems using a tiered storage approach; storage resource management (SRM), data classification and data migration tools; and te... Tutorial
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Ocarina deduplication and Isilon clustered NAS help visual effects studio archive images, cut costs
Zoic Studios archives online images and cut costs with a combo of Isilon clustered NAS and Ocarina data dedupe and compression; would like deeper integration between products. Article
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Managing enterprise data storage more efficiently, Part 2: Reclaim storage and consolidate data
Enterprise data storage managers are using tiered storage, data dedupe, snapshots, thin provisioning and SSDs to reclaim storage and consolidate the amount of data in their firms. Article