Chapter10
Capacity Optimization Technologies
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
- Thin provisioning
- Overprovisioning
- Data compression
- Data deduplication
- Auto-tiering
- Sub-LUN auto-tiering
Over the past few years, the storage industry has seen a major uptick in the turnout of high-quality capacity optimization technologies. These include thin provisioning, compression, deduplication, and auto-tiering. This trend is due to several factors, including shrinking IT budgets, the need to do more with less, the natural maturation of storage technologies, and a major push from flash storage vendors that need strong capacity optimization technologies in order ...
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