Thin Provisioning saves users 100s of thousands of dollars and alleviates substantial storage and system administration based on a simple idea—by safely over-allocating physical capacity, users can allocate storage for an application once, and then purchase capacity only as applications truly require it (for written data).

Problem Solved
Because applications are traditionally allocated liberal amounts of capacity upfront to meet potential growth, assure service levels, and avoid future upgrade complexity, enterprises estimate that utilization of allocated capacity is only 25%. With Thin Provisioning, more applications can be deployed, at less cost, and with no delays.