Tape Thin Provisioning
Thin provisioning is key to enabling the efficient use of tape. Yes, you read right. TAPE! Thin provisioning is usually associated with disk and it has become a key feature to enable the efficient use of disk systems. Every major disk system vendor offers some form of thin provisioning and thin provisioning has made its way into virtualization software like VMware. But the application of thin provisioning to the tape world is largely absent (with the notable exception of the fact that we, at
