Archive | May, 2009

Storage News and Notes – May 29

by Sunshine on May 29, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

This has been a very interesting week in the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere, and the hottest topic was, somewhat ironically, an announcement that seemed to fall flat. Wednesday, HDS brought out its High-Availability Manager for USP-V (quickly dubbed “HAM” by bloggers), and several bloggers called it underwhelming and confusing. Chris Evans, The Storage Architect – Enterprise Computing: [...]

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Backup to the Future

Backup to the Future

by Carter George on May 28, 2009 in Storage

I’ve been thinking a lot about backups lately. Yesterday, blogger Stephen Foskett put up a post on his Nirvanix blog, Enterprise Storage Strategies, that got me thinking about the subject some more. In seeking to answer the seemingly simple question, “What is a Backup?” he garnered input from several industry experts — coming up with [...]

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Object-Based Storage – New Possibilities

by Carter George on May 26, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization

Nice piece this past week in the “Storage Tips” section of SearchStorage by a contributor named Alan Radding about the object-based direction that SAN is taking. The piece also ran in the recent issue of Storage Magazine, which is now an electronic only pub. There are very interesting possibilities opened up by object-based storage. Radding [...]

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Got Ocarina?

Got Ocarina?

by Carter George on May 26, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

With so much talk about dedupe lately, it’s hard to know which aspect of it to discuss first. We’ll begin by addressing a question we occasionally hear–most recently from a comment on this very blog. The question can be summed up as: why someone would pay an extra amount for a solution such as Ocarina, [...]

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A Q&A with Michael Callahan, HP

A Q&A with Michael Callahan, HP

by Sunshine on May 22, 2009 in Featured, File Systems, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

We’ve been hearing about high capacity storage systems, such as HP’s Extreme Data Storage 9100 System (ExDS9100) for the past year or so. There’s clearly huge potential for using these types of systems to manage many terabytes of data. We decided to sit down with Michael Callahan, chief technologist for network-attached storage in the HP [...]

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Dedupe the News of the Week

by Sunshine on May 21, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

What a week this has been. For those of us who are in the middle of the deduplication market, it’s amazing to see just how much ink is being spilled to discuss the various possible scenarios that could unfold as a result of the NetApp-Data Domain merger announced yesterday. And of course, everyone is having [...]

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NetApp-Data Domain: A Sign of the Times

by Carter George on May 20, 2009 in Uncategorized, cloud

Today’s revelation that NetApp will acquire Data Domain for $1.5 billion in cash and stock has many in the industry reeling in shock. It’s a huge acquisition, and it shows how important dedupe is to the storage industry. It also leaves one wondering now how HP, Dell, EMC and others are going to compete on [...]

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Ocarina Bests NetApp

Ocarina Bests NetApp

by Sunshine on May 20, 2009 in Ocarina

In case you haven’t heard yet, the news is out that Ocarina Networks provides better data reduction results than NetApp. An independent study from Storage Switzerland, commissioned by Ocarina, pitted the two solutions in a head-to-head trial. It found that the complete Ocarina solution, a combination of content-aware compression and deduplication, beat NetApp dedupe by [...]

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Storage Community Pulls Together to Save a Life

Storage Community Pulls Together to Save a Life

by Sunshine on May 19, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

Sometimes it seems that storage bloggers do nothing but bicker. But this week, competitive differences were all set aside as everyone pulled together to help save a man’s life. As EMCers Chuck Hollis and Storagezilla have both posted, an EMC employee based in their Pleasanton, California office is in need of an emergency bone marrow [...]

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Put Your Storage on a Diet!

Put Your Storage on a Diet!

by Carter George on May 18, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization

As anyone who has tried to lose weight knows, it’s no easy feat to get and stay slim. No doubt you’ve seen the barrage of ads that promise you a quick fix (hydroxycut anyone?), but most of us know these fad programs don’t work in the long run. Rather, the key is a combination of [...]

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