Archive | January, 2009

Nice to be a Finalist

by Mike Davis on January 28, 2009 in Storage

My company Ocarina Networks received word this week that Storage Magazine has named us a Storage Management Category finalist in the Storage Magazine Annual Products of the Year Awards. This is yet another strong validation not only of our business proposition, but of our overall belief that dedupe for online storage–and capacity optimization in general–are [...]

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2009–the Year of Storage Optimization

by Mike Davis on January 28, 2009 in Analyst, Storage optimization

Storage consultant Tony Asaro cut straight to the chase on his HDS blog with his top prediction for 2009: “IT professionals will focus on optimization. I should end my blog right here. Nothing is more important this year.” We couldn’t agree more, Tony. As data volumes grow – and budgets shrink –doing more with less is [...]

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Storage Optimization – The Trend Picks Up

by Mike Davis on January 26, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

Several news articles in the past week are responding to reports about the continued skyrocketing growth of unstructured data, and the technologies that are coming up to meet this new set of demands under today’s economic circumstances.  Here are a few of the articles that jumped out at us: Processor Storage Essentials – George Crump, [...]

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NetApp Nabs Best Company

by Mike Davis on January 23, 2009 in Storage

Fortune Magazine has published its yearly report on the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” To everyone’s amazement, the company with the most satisfied employees in the U.S., according to Fortune, is none other than NetApp. The company was at number 14 last year, and so this is quite a climb by any standards, especially considering [...]

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Looking back at the year of the cloud

by Mike Davis on January 21, 2009 in Storage

In the past year, we’ve seen a massive shift toward the cloud as a viable and trustworthy storage option for many small to medium-sized businesses. As Chris Preimesberger notes in his recent post that 2008 was “all about capacity and the cloud.” Meanwhile, Chuck’s Blog is predicting a new emergence of the “private cloud” which will take the place [...]

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Our Prediction for the Hottest Storage Category of 2009

by Mike Davis on January 19, 2009 in Storage

And the winner is… dedupe for online When it comes to storage, our market research and experience with customers have led us to the following prediction: dedupe for online storage will emerge as the hottest category of the year in 2009. The current economic climate, coupled with the pace of advancement in cloud storage have [...]

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Storing Bush’s Brain

Storing Bush’s Brain

by Mike Davis on January 9, 2009 in Storage

Storage woes are hitting home in the most surprising places. The New York Times recently reported that an emergency plan has to be implemented to deal with the massive amount of electronic information that the Bush White House produced over the last eight years–about 100 terabytes of information, which was 50 times the amount of [...]

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