NetApp Thin Provisioning: Improving Storage Utilization and Reducing TCO

Thin provisioning is a mechanism that is being adopted by many enterprise storage administrators to efficiently manage storage provisioning and storage utilization, by maintaining a common unallocated storage space that is readily available to other applications on an as-needed basis. Enterprise administrators who have been using this mechanism for some time are witnessing a large increase in storage utilization efficiency; meeting their service-level agreements by being able to quickly provision storage for new applications; and more importantly, saving operating costs by upgrading storage in line with business usage.