Archive | September, 2009

Next Gen Sequencing – The Next Exabyte Market

by Mike Davis on September 30, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

I just got back from the Exploring Next Generation Sequencing conference held at the Rhode Island Conference Center in Providence, RH. I was pleased to encounter a number of folks who were extremely enthusiastic about the Ocarina solution for Life Sciences. In a way, I shouldn’t have been all that surprised. We’re the only vendor [...]

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Where’s The Growth? Storage!

Where’s The Growth? Storage!

by Sunshine on September 27, 2009 in Storage, cloud

Friday’s CNBC segment is worth a watch if you’re wondering where the greatest growth will be over the next decade in the technology sector. “Everything that we are using now–videos on YouTube. Everything we’re doing on our phone. On and on. It’s all about storage and putting stuff on the net,” opines Roger Nusbaum of [...]

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Great Minds Think Together

by Carter George on September 25, 2009 in Featured, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

This week, the New York Times Bits blog reported that a winner has been announced in the $1 million Netflix challenge. The prize went to the team that could come up with a better “predictor” of customer behavior than the company’s current in-house software, Cinematch. It’s more than a gimmick. Having a reliable and effective [...]

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Dedupe … The Next Generation

Dedupe … The Next Generation

by Sunshine on September 23, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage optimization

In what seems to be a theme this week in Online Storage Optimization–we’re all about what’s next, and what’s “out there” in the stratosphere. We’re also not beneath making as many pop cultural sci fi references as we can. That’s just the way we roll. Analyst George Crump had a nice piece in Networking Computing [...]

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These are not the Jedis You’re Looking For

These are not the Jedis You’re Looking For

by Sunshine on September 22, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

Life can be tough for a Jedi Knight. And in the UK, it can lead to run-ins at the cereal aisle. In one of the more retweeted and blogged about stories of the week, the UK Guardian reports that Daniel Jones, the 23-year-old founder of the Church of Jediism, was told to remove his hood [...]

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Storage News and Views, Sept. 18

by Sunshine on September 18, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

Fall is practically upon us. Those of us of the Jewish faith are slicing up the apples and dragging out the honey bears while listening to well-wishes from the prez. And for everyone, it seems that a sense of renewal is in the air. Some items this week caught our eye over here at Online [...]

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The Great Booth Babe Controversy

The Great Booth Babe Controversy

by Sunshine on September 16, 2009 in Featured, Storage

For those who are new to this debate, I will catch you up. First, there was VMWorld–which was kind of like a cross between a high level MIT graduate symposium and Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus (with strippers). Whatever the intentions of the organizers, somehow that show was a strange concatenation of labs on [...]

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Gmail File Limits – WOW!

by Sunshine on September 15, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, green IT

There’s a really interesting post up this week by Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land about how he blew through his gmail space limit. Hardly the usual experience–most of us are using only a small percentage of our overall space. But it happened to him, and made him stop and think. He became suddenly aware [...]

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It’s Not Just About Storage Anymore

by Mike Davis on September 14, 2009 in Analyst, Featured, Ocarina, Storage optimization, Uncategorized

Bas Raayman, an SAP consultant has a post on StorageMonkeys that questions the emphasis on de-dupe and thin provisioning, when evidence is mounting that storage at many enterprises is largely underutilized. This got me thinking. Bas is asking a good question: Why bother shrinking your data when you’re only at 50% capacity? Now the premise [...]

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HDS is Hopping

by Sunshine on September 9, 2009 in Ocarina

HDS has had an interesting run when it comes to its social media efforts. With Hu Yoshida, they’ve got a heavy hitter putting out blog posts with gravitas. This hasn’t stopped them from adding several more bloggers, including consultant Tony Asaro who offers a refreshing, semi-outsider’s point of view. As of last Friday, Miki Sandorfi, [...]

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