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Enterprise Computing: Why Thin Provisioning Is Not The Holy Grail for Utilisation

By Chris M Evans On June 4, 2009 · 23 Comments · In GestaltIT

Thin Provisioning (Dynamic Provisioning, Virtual Provisioning, or whatever you prefer to call it) is being heavily touted as a method of reducing storage costs. Whilst at the outset it seems to provide some significant storage savings, it isn’t the answer for all our storage ills.

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You Sunk My Battleship!

By Chris M Evans On November 11, 2008 · 6 Comments · In Uncategorized

I spent some time today with the good folks at 3Par, as offered by Marc Farley a few posts ago. It was good to get more of a background on the product and also see what’s happening in the future (although I can’t talk about that!).

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The Defrag Debate

By Chris M Evans On July 21, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Uncategorized

I was asked again this week whether defragging of hard drives on Windows servers is really necessary. This is quite pertinent as the cost of deploying an enterprise-wide defrag tool can be significant and any opportunity to save money has to be a good one.

I discussed fragmentation last year (here) when [...]

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