Symantec Thin Reclamation Simplifies Storage Management

According to Symantec Corp., leading array vendors have recently added support for Symantec's industry standard Thin Reclamation API. In its recent news release, the company claims the Symantec Thin Reclamation API enables automated space reclamation for thin provisioning storage arrays in heterogeneous environments. Currently the industry standard is being supported by Symantec partners Compellent, EMC, Fujitsu, HP and NetApp, in addition to previously announced support from 3PAR, Hitachi Data Systems and IBM.

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"Symantec Corp. today announced enhancements to Veritas Storage Foundation that enable customers to simplify their storage management and more efficiently leverage existing resources to reduce costs and complexity in their data centers. Storage Foundation's thin optimization functionality supports Windows, Unix and Linux environments and is the only technology on the market today that fully automates storage optimization in thin storage environments -- eliminating storage waste and ensuring that customers only have as much physical storage allocated to their hosts as required to support real application data.

"Symantec's thin optimization technology leverages host specific intelligence and standards based storage hardware integration to provide storage professionals with automated, granular, online reclamation of unused storage over time in a way that is transparent to the application, server and storage, ensuring arrays stay thin."

Read the News Release at Market Watch