virtual provisioning

Overheard: Feature lust can be a bad thing

Look, I fully understand being enamored with a new feature or a new technology. I have succumbed to that siren song more times than I can count.And we, as vendors, don’t make the situation any better, do we? But I’ve learned — the hard way — that “outcome lust” is a far better thing than “feature lust”. Chuck Hollis, Feature Lust By Storage People

And then the truth came out … they were severely under the gun to cut IT expenses (who isn’t?) and thought that thin (virtual) provisioning might be a great way to do it.

As IT battens down for rough seas, this is the kind of guy I’d want captaining our ship. I salute you, Chuck Hollis.

Overheard: Virtual provisioning is a Catch-22

The storage admin now has a new use for the time freed up by fast-and-simple allocation: monitoring the use of the virtual provisioned devices and their supporting pools. Barry Burke (The Storage Anarchist), 0.007: virtual provisioning catch-22