Archive | November, 2009

Dedupe Deep Dive – Video

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

Lots of special treats awaited the participants of Gestalt IT Tech Field Day. While visiting the offices on November 13 Goutham Rao, CTO of Ocarina Networks stood at the whiteboard and offered a deep dive into the technology behind the company. It was a big hit with the participants. For those who would like a [...]

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Drobo Mania

Drobo Mania

by Sunshine on November 23, 2009 in Blogroll

Drobo maker Data Robotics has a major announcement out today that has the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere all atwitter. It has introed two new products, Drobo S and DroboElite. These new models add new functionality to the popular desktop, SOHO and single server SMB storage, making them faster, easier and more failproof. With the new Elite, they’re [...]

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Pop a Dedupe Cork

Pop a Dedupe Cork

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

Seems New Year’s is coming early this year. Across the pond in the UK, Ocarina and our partner BlueArc have decided to hand out bottles of bubbly to all and sundry. In short, anyone suffering from a storage hangover–that is, any company that is saddled with more than 20 TB of unstructured data–is eligible for [...]

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Tech Field Day – Video

by Sunshine on November 16, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Tech Field Day may be over, but it lives on in digital form–scattered like so many tiny shreds of confetti across the interwebs. One of the delegates at the event, Rod Haywood, put together this video on his Musings of Rodos blog about Day 2 of the event, featuring interviews with Ocarina‘s own Goutham Rao, [...]

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Tech Field Day – The Home Stretch

by Sunshine on November 13, 2009 in Ocarina

It really has been a field day the last day and a half here in Silicon Valley. We’re in the final stretch of the Gestalt IT sponsored Tech Field Day, which brings together independent bloggers from around the globe for hands-on demos at Silicon Valley storage and virtualization companies. The participants are some of the [...]

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Tech Field Day Cometh

Tech Field Day Cometh

by Sunshine on November 11, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, cloud

Excitement is building here at Ocarina as tomorrow is the big kickoff for Tech Field Day, and we’re a presenting sponsor of the event. As we speak, cables are being laid, demos are being run through, and a certain amount of nervous excitement is in the air. In just two short days, a horde of [...]

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Ocarina Named one of Top 10 Networking Companies

by Murli Thirumale on November 10, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Uncategorized, green IT

We were pleased to receive word this week that SiliconIndia Magazine named Ocarina Networks one of its Top 10 Networking Companies, and one of its Top 100 Companies for 2009. The publication’s annual  “si100″ is a listing of the top 100 technology companies founded and managed by Indians in the U.S. According to the magazine, [...]

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Going Up – Way, Way Up

Going Up – Way, Way Up

by Sunshine on November 5, 2009 in Uncategorized

The space elevator dreamt of by Arthur C. Clarke (not to mention Roald Dahl) is becoming a reality. Well, sort of. NASA has announced the first successful climb by a laser-powered robot–one step closer to the dream of being able to lift objects directly into space. As Tech Generation Daily reports, a winner was announced [...]

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Bring Out Your Data – The Deets

by Sunshine on November 4, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Lots of speculation this past week in the storage tweet-o-blog-0sphere around our “Bring Out Your Data” Challenge for Tech Field Day. We can’t wait to see what these smart and savvy participants bring us, and we’re confident about the results. There will be prizes awarded for those who stymie us and those who get the [...]

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Going Native CIFS

by Carter George on November 2, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, green IT

A recent comment on this blog got me thinking, and this post is the result. The commenter, who identified him or herself only as “Sto Rage” asked: “When can we expect native CIFS support on the Ocarina platforms? The current implementation is outright clunky. So until you have a working CIFS implementation, I don’t think [...]

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