3par Workshop

This week at my company we organized a 3par workshop called “Start Thin, Get Thin & Stay Thin”. We were very happy with the presence of the 3par European Sales Manager Joao Silva and super SE Fred Lherault. They dazzled our visitors with the unique features 3par offers such as:

• Thin provisioning
• Thin conversion
• Thin reclamation
• Thin persistence



Because 3par is the only storage vendor in the market offering these features I cannot help but to think that this must take a huge flight and become adopted by other storage vendors rapidly. Almost every other storage vendor has the possibility to Thin Provision LUNS and/or Volumes but no other vendor offers technology to actually stay Thin Provisioned by reclaiming space from deleted volumes. Thin Copy Reclamation does the same for thin copies (virtual copy snapshots and remote copies).



This must be the next big thing in 2010,.. am I right??