Thin provisioning allows a storage administrator to allocate more capacity to specific applications or users than is physically available under the assumption that not all those applications and ...

Rather than pre-allocate storage that sits empty until it is used, thin provisioning lets network administrators over-allocate capacity without actually reserving physical storage. Thin ...

Also new with the DMX-4 is thin provisioning, which EMC calls virtual provisioning. While EMC claims to be the first tier-one storage vendor to offer flash drives with its arrays, it is following ...