Storage utilization rates remain at 40% or lower. IT shops aren’t using as much as 60% of their storage capacity, wasting electricity and floor space. Analyst: “Most people I talk to don’t even know how many terabytes of capacity they have on the floor, much less what their utilization is” Thin provisioning, storage resource management, capacity reclamation and storage virtualization are among the most popular technologies to increase storage utilization rates. Forrester Research analyst: Without better use of storage management tools, users won’t be able to track utilization and improve it.”]