YANKEE GROUP ON THE BUSINESS ASPECTS OF STORAGE

Utility Storage can increase your IT performance and business value

"To adapt to new business demands and opportunities, IT resources must be pooled, shared and flexibly deployed based on business policy. The utility computing model reduces costs, improves resource utilization and raises service levels to business applications."

—Yankee Group Decisions Note(SM)
Increase IT Performance and Business Value with Utility Computing and Storage
March 15, 2005

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STORAGE MAGAZINE ON 3PAR THIN PROVISIONING

Thin Provisioning is 3PAR’s real star!

"…Thin Provisioning looms as the real star of 3PAR's highlight film, leveraging the InServ controller's ability to virtualize all of the managed storage into a common pool. With Thin Provisioning, you can allocate more storage than is physically present, so an application can be allocated as much storage as it's likely to need over the long term. But while the application may think it has a large amount of storage, actual storage is only pulled from the pool on an as-needed basis when the application writes to disk. This can help users to avoid overallocating physical resources and additional disk purchases can be delayed until they're needed. When an additional disk is required, it can be added to the array non-disruptively, without having to take controllers or other storage offline."

—Alan Radding
Contributor
Storage Magazine

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Storage Magazine: Sportlight on Midrange Arrays, March 2005

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