Online Storage Optimization

Archive | May, 2009

Downages – What do they Mean?

by Sunshine on May 14, 2009 in Uncategorized

Many of us have become extremely dependent on certain online sources–Google and Twitter, to name the most prominent–for our daily work and personal lives. And so when not one, but both of these services are on the blink at the same time, it becomes news. First, there was the slowness of Gmail and related Google [...]

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NetApp v. Ocarina on Dedupe

by Carter George on May 12, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina

In the storage industry, there is plenty of talk about whose product is the best, with each vendor putting out their own marketing spin about why theirs is the superior one. Most analysts don’t have the inclination to do head-to-head comparisons across vendors, because so many make their money by selling vendor-friendly assessments of new [...]

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Star Trek, the Next IT Frontier

by Sunshine on May 11, 2009 in Storage

Star Trek is out in theaters, and the geek world is jumping for joy–not to mention having a little fun with the technology that is and always has been a mainstay of the franchise. There are lessons to be learned from comparing Trek’s capabilities to today’s reality, especially since we stack up pretty well. ChannelWeb’s [...]

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Do you #FollowFriday?

by Sunshine on May 8, 2009 in Ocarina

The speed of the Web 2.0 (3.0?) revolution is so rapid that it can be hard to keep up with the latest meme. The one that has captured many an imagination lately is Follow Friday on Twitter. Originally suggested by a Twitter user named Micah Baldwin, it essentially entails tweeting lists of the people you [...]

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When You Only Have a Hammer…

by Carter George on May 7, 2009 in Analyst, File Systems, Ocarina, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, cloud, green IT

Nice to see Dave Simpson from InfoStor getting interested in the subject of dedupe for primary. Today, he had a new post on the topic, along with a plug for a webcast he’s doing on the topic with Noemi Greyzdorf of IDC. In the post, Dave makes the point that people are starting to muddy [...]

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Dedupe Ramp-Up

by Sunshine on May 6, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Big announcement today from Ocarina about our newest product release, Ocarina 3.0. At this point, there’s no question that dedupe for primary is one of the hottest topics in storage. Our recent partnership announcements with major vendors were well covered in the storage press, and if anything the excitement around this technology is growing. Update [...]

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Come Visit Us (Again)

by Sunshine on May 5, 2009 in Ocarina

For those of you who are frequent visitors to the Ocarina Networks site (you know who you are), you may have noticed a few changes of late. We gave it a major facelift — with a whole new look and feel and more intuitive navigation. There’s an easy-to-understand flash demo on the home page that [...]

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A Healthy Disregard for the Impossible

by Sunshine on May 4, 2009 in Ocarina

Google Co-Founder Larry Page’s commencement speech to the University of Michigan, posted today on YouTube is worth a watch. It’s a powerful reminder to those of us who are sweating it out in the trenches. In it, he talks about how important it is to have, as the headline here says, “a healthy disregard for [...]

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Happy May Day

by Sunshine on May 1, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization

In honor of this pagan holiday, we’ve decided that a little dance around the maypole is in order. Since we don’t have a real one handy, we’re instead doing a little dance around it on a virtual level. Here are a few ribbons of information we’ve found today that are ready for tying: Spending More [...]

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