It’s only Tuesday, and already it’s been a jam packed week. Ocarina’s partnership with Isilon Systems was a big news item for this blog. For those who don’t follow the blow by blows, Isilon announced a new integrated nearline archive solution combining Isilon’s new 36NL and Ocarina’s ECOsystem storage optimization software.
Chris Mellor’s piece in The Register gives a good bit of detail on the new offerings from Isilon, along with background on the competition between Isilon and NetApp around Isilon’s specialty–highly scalable NAS storage clusters.
The inimitable Beth Pariseau also covered the news today on SearchStorage providing significant context and some insights from analysts Noemi Greyzdorf and Robin Harris.
And finally, Byte & Switch’s Paul Travis covered the Isilon-Ocarina news in this article.
Also this week, Ocarina’s partnership with Cornell University’s Center for Advanced Computing yielded a really nice piece that will be out in this month’s edition of Drug Discovery News. Storage optimization has been an absolute boon to the biomedical field, which is drowning in a sea of image rich data.
In other news, lots of discussion around what B&S has called the “storage smackdown.” (We were pleased to be mentioned by the mysterious NoHype in that comment field.) There’s an element of what Ruptured Monkey is calling “bare knuckled brawling” among vendors that’s getting… well, you could say out of hand, or you could just call it entertainment, depending on how you see the world.
Meanwhile, it’s nice to have folks like Storage Nerve taking stock of the entire storage blogosphere and giving us all a bit of link love. Let the games continue…
