StoneFly's enterprise storage provisioning product enables users to configure dedicated enterprise data services such as Image-based snapshots, synchronous and asynchronous replication, encryption, deduplication,
thin provisioning, erasure coding, and more.
Wang Yin, assistant vice-president, broadcast engineering, Mediacorp, who spoke at the APB seminar in Singapore, shared that the most significant benefit Mediacorp has reaped from the implementation of virtualisation technology is
thin provisioning. "Because when we thin provision, we can share the same physical hardware--and slice certain computing power for a small application.
Increased demand for optimization technologies like virtualization, de-duplication, automatic tiering, compression and
thin provisioning across organizations is being seen.
Albireo VDO combines fine-grained
thin provisioning, inline data deduplication and the company's HIOPS[R] Compression for Linux-based storage solutions, while delivering an average 6:1 data reduction across mixed storage environments.
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Thin provisioning:A storage capacity virtualization technology that enables efficient, effective utilization of unused capacity.
With FalconStor NSS storage virtualization technology, organizations can offload CPU-intensive read, write and clone processes to storage devices and can utilize
thin provisioning with space reclamation support for all storage devices connected by vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI).
With the plethora of storage choices that can be effectively and affordably deployed, most companies are ramping up their infrastructure with new technologies such as de-duplication,
thin provisioning and automated tiering.
However, de-duplication,
thin provisioning and flash storage are slowly gaining traction in this market, Gartner said.
The DataCore software has reduced the time window needed to perform the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) operations from an average of 12 hours down to four, with the load spread across half the original number of internal hard disk drives achieved through the efficiency of SANsymphony-V's
thin provisioning, according to the company.