On Wednesday the 11th – at Dell Storage Forum in London – we launched the DR4000 disk-to-disk backup appliance, designed for SMB to mid-sized enterprise customers with small to moderate sized backup workflows. It’s always great to see a large company like Dell get a new technology into the market, where we can bring additional [...]
Sharing Our Storage Vision
This is an exciting year for Dell storage customers because this is the year you will begin to see the results of our recent storage acquisitions – including Exanet, Ocarina and Compellent – and how they combine to support our Dell storage vision. Most importantly, you will see how this strategy will help you use [...]
Dedupe & Compression for Long-Term Archival?
It was great to be invited to speak at the Library of Congress’s annual conference Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation where the core focus is on long-term archival…I mean reallllly long term preservation in some cases. The attendees represented a really well selected cross section of public and private organizations that had different perspectives, requirements, [...]
Dell Day 2
It’s a great experience going through a a positive transfer of ownership in a company, whether it’s an IPO or a strategic acquisition by a larger company. From an Engineering perspective, the day-to-day tasks are mostly unchanged, but there’s clearly something different in the air. Maybe it’s the fog hanging in the air, from all [...]
Dell to Work with OEMs
The acquisition of Ocarina by Dell has now closed, and we can now say some things about where we are headed. Mergers and acquisitions can often be a time of confusion, as the new combined company figures out what the new plan will be. I’d like to use this first blog after the closing of [...]
InformationWeek Shows Strong Dedupe and Compression Demand
Data deduplication and compression are quickly becoming standards, with customers in a wide variety of markets and business sizes recognizing the value of saving money and reducing management through storage optimization. Earlier this week, InformationWeek released a research report highlighting how IT professionals were working to meet today’s exploding storage capacity demands. The report, unsurprisingly [...]
The best is yet to come
For almost exactly a year, I had the privilege of being a blogger for this site, Online Storage Optimization. It was one of the most fulfilling collaborations of my professional life. When I heard the news yesterday that Dell would be acquiring Ocarina Networks, my first reaction was pride. I couldn’t help but give myself [...]
Accelerating our Mission
By now you may have heard the news that Ocarina will become part of Dell. Many of you who have been following Ocarina over the last few years may wonder why a company with exciting technology, huge customer success and rapidly growing revenues would sell itself at this time. The answer is simple: it accelerates [...]
Passing along what we learned from OEMs
It’s an exciting time at Ocarina, because we’re right in the middle of a wave of OEM efforts to bring data-reduction to market as a standard feature across a wide variety of storage implementations. ECOsystem for OEMs is an Ocarina offering of software libraries and APIs that allows storage OEMs and ISVs to embed data-reduction [...]
Dedupe Or Compression? Both! Optimization or Performance? Both!
Interest in and discussion of data deduplication and primary storage compression seems to be at an all-time high right now. In the last few weeks, we have seen new entrants into the market, including Permabit, and a broad overview from Wikibon, focused on storage optimization. At Ocarina, we see industry discussions such as these as [...]
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The impending storage crunch
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- Tiered Storage – A Virtual Future
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Who’s Really Melting the Ice Cap?
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Ocarina Goes To Hollywood
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Announcing the DR4000 backup-to-disk appliance
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Sharing Our Storage Vision
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Dedupe & Compression for Long-Term Archival?
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Dell Day 2
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Dell to Work with OEMs
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InformationWeek Shows Strong Dedupe and Compression Demand
- The best is yet to come
- Accelerating our Mission
- Passing along what we learned from OEMs
- Dedupe Or Compression? Both! Optimization or Performance? Both!
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Sean Phelan: We're excited to have Ocarina join the Dell Team. ...
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Enterprise Features: I'm really excited about the Globabl Dedupe featur...
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josephmartins: A bit late for me to comment, but I will anyway. ...
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Mike Davis: Hi Paul, we are installed alongside a lot of Isilo...
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Paul: Any news on integration with Isilon Systems storag...
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Sunshine Mugrabi: Thanks everyone. It means so much to hear this fro...
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Greg White: Congrats Sunshine. Will miss your blogs, but I wo...
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George Crump: I think I learned more from you, but thanks for th...
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Mike Davis: Everyone at Ocarina sincerely appreciates all the ...
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The Storage Alchemist: Oh, one more question - Deduplication and Compress...
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