Archive | August, 2009

Heading to VMWorld

by Sunshine on August 31, 2009 in Storage

This week Online Storage Optimization will be blogging live from the floor of VMWorld. The conference, which kicked off today and runs through Thursday, has become a premier event that draws folks from all corners of the IT and storage industries. And no wonder, considering the transformative power of virtualization. Stay tuned for updates throughout [...]

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Get Ready for Dedupe 2.0

by Carter George on August 27, 2009 in Analyst, Featured, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Data deduplication has become a very hot topic these days, especially in light of EMC’s recent and very high profile acquisition of Data Domain. This week, analyst George Crump of Storage Switzerland made some predictions as to where this technology is heading. His post, The Foundation of DeDupe’s Next Era, asserts that it will require [...]

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Saving Money on Storage – Webinar

by Sunshine on August 25, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

Many organizations are struggling to manage their storage in the face of a massive upsurge in the amount of data that must be stored and made accessible. To save on primary storage costs, it’s imperative to make sure that it is being deployed in the most efficient way possible. As we’ve already been discussing at [...]

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Storage Blogging–The Good, The Bad and the Goofy

Storage Blogging–The Good, The Bad and the Goofy

by Sunshine on August 24, 2009 in Blogroll

We’re just one week away from VMWorld, to be held here in San Francisco Aug. 31-Sept. 3 and the storage blogo-tweet-osphere is lighting up like a Christmas tree. This blogger will be there with her trusty iPhone, ready to send out tweets on every imaginable topic, rumor, random thought, and food item she encounters. We’re [...]

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Ocarina: The Movie

by Sunshine on August 21, 2009 in Ocarina, capacity optimization

As many people know, Ocarina Networks has been living up to its name lately. It really is becoming a “network”-oriented company, inking partnerships with just about all of the top storage vendors–HP, BlueArc, Isilon, and so on and so forth. This is great news for storage customers, who can now depend on the very best [...]

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Tiered Storage – A Virtual Future

by Carter George on August 20, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, cloud, green IT

There’s been a lot of discussion about tiered storage lately. Most notably, Stephen Foskett has written a series of posts on the topic on his Nirvanix blog, Enterprise Storage Strategies. In his latest post, he essentially argues that tiered storage hasn’t turned out to be cost effective and that cloud storage could be the best [...]

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The Power Dilemma

by Sunshine on August 18, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, green IT

Steve Duplessie has a very interesting post up on his blog today. It is part of a series he’s doing on scarcity. He seeks to understand what made deduplication vendor Data Domain so attractive to both EMC and NetApp. What he comes to is that scarcity is now focused around power, cooling and rackspace. At [...]

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SNW Revisited

by Sunshine on August 17, 2009 in Blogroll, Storage

InfoStor editor Dave Simpson has a post on his storage blog about how Storage Networking World (SNW) can get back some of its lost luster. As he notes, trade shows in general are feeling the pinch in the current recession and SNW-which just posted the agenda for its upcoming fall conference–is no exception. For the [...]

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Moving Pictures – An Interview With Animator Michael Zachary Huber

Moving Pictures – An Interview With Animator Michael Zachary Huber

by Sunshine on August 14, 2009 in Analyst, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

A few of the Ocarina crew recently returned from Siggraph2009, the 36th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Held in New Orleans the week of August 3-7, the event drew participants from around the world. We were newbies to the event, and so decided get some perspective from an industry veteran, [...]

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The Dedupe Race

The Dedupe Race

by Sunshine on August 14, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

The storage press has sniffed out a good story recently. Today, Beth Pariseau has a piece up on her Storage Soup blog that hones in on the drama surrounding the technology du jour–deduplication. The post, “HP to EMC/Data Domain: Bring it On” has a headline that’s reminiscent of the sort of fighting words we heard [...]

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