One of the biggest challenges facing storage administrators is balancing how much storage space will be required by the various applications in their data centers. Over-provisioning leads to higher costs; increased power, cooling, and floor space requirements; and lower capacity utilization rates. Thin provisioning can improve storage capacity utilization and simplify storage management by presenting an application with sufficient capacity for an extended period of time by drawing from a common pool. This reduces the time and effort required to provision additional storage, and avoids provisioning storage that may not be needed.Learn how Virtual Provisioning and the new Dell/EMC CX4 Series arrays helps organizations to reduce storage costs by increasing capacity utilization, simplifying storage management, and reducing application downtime.