Thin Provisioning and Green Computing

DataCore Goes Green with Thin Provisioning - Cost and energy savings up to 60%!
Put Fat Storage on a Diet: Hardware-independent thin provisioning can trim conventional fat storage by 60%, taking a data center from 10TB down to 4TB; DataCore’s software radically reduces storage hardware burden on wallet and planet

Read More: Virtualization, Thin Provisioning and Green Computing
Studies show that customers who deploy Thin Provisioning and Thin Replication technologies such as those found in DataCore's SANmelody and SANsymphony are able to deploy on average just one terabyte of capacity for every 2.5 terabytes required with traditional storage arrays. Due to this substantial reduction in capacity requirements, these Thin technologies are responsible for reducing necessary disk capacity and the associated carbon footprint by approximately 60% as compared with traditional storage.

Energy and Storage Cost Backgrounder - Server Virtualization and Thin Provisioning
Read More: Put fat storage on a diet - Cost Backgrounder
In addition to the up front purchase cost savings achieved by buying fewer servers and disks, the ongoing energy cost savings are substantial. Over the long haul alone, per server costs can easily exceed $500 per year and for every disk drive saved users can save another $60 plus per year!

Thin Storage Provisioning for Energy Savings
So you pay for storage that's just sitting there, waiting for your apps make use of it. What a waste! Not only did you pay upfront but your arrays are sitting idle, blatantly running up your electric bill. Luckily, there is another way... Click on the logo for more.

DataCore Thin Provisioning is Versatile, Network Software: No Forklift Required
Read More: “Green” Technology Promotes Energy Efficiency, Saves Money and Is Now Available to All to Try
According to Mike Karp, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates, “Thin provisioning can be great solution for budget-strapped IT managers. It saves money, time, worry, and is 'green', so it makes companies good environmental citizens. The DataCore approach, like that of VMWare, and Citrix, is not wrapped in expensive hardware. A customer’s investment is protected because DataCore thin provisioning will keep working even if their hardware infrastructure changes.”

Thin Provisioning - Virtual Capacity and Storage Virtualization
Presentation: Virtual Capacity - Disk Resource Consolidation and Auto Provisioning

Thin Provisioning: Click to read the White Paper: DataCore's Virtual Capacity
"DataCore's virtual capacity is a major leap forward. You now can defeat the 'running out of space' downtime problem and avoid the 'guesswork' cost of over buying storage. This innovation truly automates the process of storage provisioning and delivers dramatic improvements in utilization." - John Padovano, Manager of Technology for EngenderHealth.

Credit Where Credit is Due - DataCore Pioneers Thin Provisioning
"The current manual approaches for provisioning storage often require hours not seconds to create volumes and make them available to an application or an end user. Many of the newer virtualization products on the market require users to lock in to a specific hardware vendor's 'solution set' and concerns remain over whose hardware can be included in the hardware-based virtualization scheme. DataCore's approach is superior. I am hard pressed to think of any other storage software vendor who offers anything close in terms of giving users so much choice on which vendor's disks and hardware to use," says Jon William Toigo, renowned storage analyst and author, IT consumer advocate and CEO of Toigo Partners International in Tampa Bay, FL.

Auto Thin Provisioning - Maximize Space Utilization
Read: Just Enough Space, Just-in-Time