The Performance Challenges of Storage Optimization – Thin Provisioning

In my last post, I identified the three biggest challenges to implementing primary storage optimization - avoiding performance degradation, supplementing all existing functionality, and preventing data lock-in.  Over the next few posts I will go into more detail on the first, performance. Any storage optimization method is based on finding and eliminating data that doesn't need to be stored.  This can take many forms, and the different forms p...