• Thin provisioning was initially introduced at the storage level. However, recently VMware and Hyper V introduced thin provisioning at the Hypervisor level. Storage virtual provisioning gives an ...

Dynamic server provisioning is an area of management that’s certainly one to watch if you want to efficiently use the servers, processing power and storage throughout your IT infrastructure. Picture ...

Labor is one of the largest costs enterprises face when setting up and managing infrastructure, especially servers and storage. Today, IT administrators can spend hours, if not days, configuring ...

3PAR of Fremont, Calif., has added both bare metal provisioning and its Dynamic Optimization software, which helps align application and business requirements with data service levels on demand ...

Next-generation data centers are supposed to be hotbeds of automation with on-demand everything. In this ideal, system administrators are almost obsolete, and the data center runs “by itself.” This ...

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Lately, I have been coming across many customers that are not leveraging the full potential of Citrix provisioning services simply because they are not configuring the product the right way. Basically ...

The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor, one of the top Fibre Channel SAN switch vendors, introduced its Tapestry family of server provisioning tools and wide-area file services (WAFS) technology, said Tom ...

In the latest step toward utility computing, Veritas Software and Intel are joining forces to help companies better manage servers. The companies on Wednesday announced plans to bundle Veritas' ...

Ubuntu developer Canonical is working on a new provisioning platform called Metal as a Service (MAAS), which will be used to activate new servers, on top of which a cloud can be deployed, founder Mark ...