The Storage Architect

Enterprise Computing: So EMC, Where's Your Thin Persistence?

Following on from yesterday’s announcement by 3Par, I’m wondering just where EMC is in the thin reclamation market. HDS have ZPR, which although working as a background collection process, does reclaim zeroed out blocks of data. I believe SVC has similar functionality too. We all know...

Enterprise Computing: 3Par Thin Enhancements

3Par today took the opportunity at SNW USA to announce some enhancements to their thin provisioning technology. The new features are: Thin Conversion. Slims down “stout” storage volumes as they are moved to a thin environment. Thin Copy Reclamation. Reclaims unused space from snapshot...