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I’ve read with interest this week the posts on wide striping and the consequent expansion to thin provisioning. Here are some of the highlights:
First there’s Martin Glasborow’s post, which discusses whether wide striping and thin provisioning should be chargeable items. I’d go a step further than Martin and suggest that thin [...]
There’s no doubting HDS‘ Universal Volume Manager (UVM), aka external storage virtualisation is a cool product. I’ve used it many times – it does the job. However, the main drawback to using the product for me was always cost (I mentioned this only a few weeks ago [...]
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