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Comments on: EMC's love/hate relationship with thin provisioning

Virtual Provisioning Please 

Posted Friday 25th April 2008 14:19 GMT

Go

It's called Virtual Provisioning in the EMC world.

funny names 

Posted Friday 25th April 2008 15:28 GMT

Alien

That should be "CLARiiON", not "Clarrion". No one knows how EMC got the names for their devices: Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Centerra, Celerra, but it is rumoured that they are the names of the alien travellers that brought the advanced Alien Technology used inside of all EMC equipment (mainly dilithium crystals).

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