Archive | July, 2009

Dedupe Grows Up

by Sunshine on July 29, 2009 in Analyst, Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization

George Crump has a piece in Byte and Switch today that poses an important question: “Can we get to a single point of deduplication?” This is a question that we have taken up in one form or another in some of our recent posts, such as this one and this one. In the article, Crump [...]

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Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad, Dedupe?

by Carter George on July 28, 2009 in Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Martin Glassborow on his Storagebod Blog has written a controversial piece raises questions about the two hottest technologies in storage at the moment, dedupe and thin provisioning. In his post, entitled “Living on a Prayer,” he suggests that both of these technologies could be the road to a storage nightmare, in which, “you could be [...]

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EMC Dedupe – Beyond Data Domain

by Mike Davis on July 27, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

With all the talk about the Data Domain acquisition, there less attention paid to EMC’s native de-dupe features in Celerra, not to mention its other related partnerships, such as with Ocarina for optimization of vertical applications. Last week I had the privilege of attending a webinar, “Surviving the Data Explosion through Data Reduction” with John [...]

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It’s Getting Cloudy up There

by Sunshine on July 24, 2009 in cloud

Seems Uncle Sam is trying to tighten his belt through cloud computing. Government, at both the federal and state level, is debating how to make better use of this cost-cutting innovation. As we reported a few weeks ago, there are already some initiatives coming down the pike, such as Nirvanix providing cloud storage for NASA [...]

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Doing More With Less

by Sunshine on July 23, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, capacity optimization

If you’re trying to figure out how to do more with less when it comes to your storage, I’d strongly suggest you participate in an upcoming Webinar, “How to Use Storage Tiering to Create Cost Efficient Storage of your Online Data.” It will take place on August 5 at 9 a.m. PDT and 12 p.m. [...]

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Thanks to our Readers

by Sunshine on July 22, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, green IT

As the new vendor storage blog on the block, Online Storage Optimization has a lot to be grateful for. Since our relaunch in February, we have become a known source of opinion and information on the very hot topic of data deduplication. You, our readers, are the reason we exist. Your comments and thoughts are [...]

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Storage News and Views July 21

by Sunshine on July 21, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

What is it about mid-summer that turns everyone a little bit mad? EMC is now the proud parent of a baby DDUP. NetApp is $57 million richer. And here in the Bay Area, the weather veers from freezing to sweltering, depending on how close one is to the coast. Here are a few headlines that [...]

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Network Storage is Back

by Sunshine on July 20, 2009 in Blogroll

One of our favorite blogs, Network Storage by Anil Gupta, has been something of an on again off again project. It is written by Anil Gupta, a Quantum systems engineer–though the ideas are his own. Yesterday, he posted on an observation he had made. Namely, that several different spreadsheet programs had miscalculated the answer to [...]

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How Much Are You Saving on Storage?

by Sunshine on July 17, 2009 in Ocarina

Lately it seems that everyone out there is telling you how much you can save on storage. In many ways, we truly are experiencing a new era in storage, in which the base costs are being reduced through advancements such as virtualization, thin provisioning, and of course deduplication and compression. But how much are you [...]

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Data Centers Grow Up, Chill Out

Data Centers Grow Up, Chill Out

by Sunshine on July 16, 2009 in Storage, green IT

Lots of news about improvements in data centers this week. It’s as if suddenly, a whole bunch of folks woke up and realized that these things are here to stay, and so need some extra attention. For example, Data Center Knowledge is reporting that Datapipe has built a beautiful, glass-enclosed atrium for its data center. [...]

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