3PAR® Thin Provisioning is a green technology that dramatically cuts disk capacity, energy, and floor space costs while also substantially alleviating storage and system administration. Capacity is dedicated and configured autonomically and in small increments from a single, reservationless, comprehensively scalable pool—enabling you to provision storage efficiently and without waste.



By allowing the one-time, safe overallocation of physical capacity, 3PAR Thin Provisioning lets you provision virtual capacity to applications once and purchase pooled physical capacity only as applications truly require it for written data. This solves the serious issue of poor capacity utilization—a problem that leads enterprises to report unacceptably low utilization rates averaging only 25% when calculated using written data as a proportion of allocated capacity.