Archive | December, 2009
The Year in Images

The Year in Images

by Sunshine on December 30, 2009 in Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

This past year, we at Online Storage Op gathered all manner of images to illustrate our posts. So as a way of looking back at 2009, here are some of the ones we liked the best–and the stories that went with them: Holodeck fun: In February, Robin Harris at StorageMojo wrote about a potential breakthrough [...]

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Happy New Year

by Sunshine on December 29, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, green IT

Tis the week for the “out of office” email messages. But the storage blogo-tweet-osphere waits for no man. Here are a few posts that caught my eye this week. Bas Raayman sees CPU power hitting the wall: The RAM per CPU wall Rick Vanover says 2010 could be the year for 10GigE – Will 2010 [...]

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Last-minute online shopping spikes – boon or threat?

Last-minute online shopping spikes – boon or threat?

by Mike Davis on December 24, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

Tis the week of Christmas and all through the house, not a creature is stirring except to click their mouse. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are far behind us, but there are still a few doing their last-last-minute online shopping. This entire week, the tubes were getting clogged due to this. Akamai’s Retail Index shows [...]

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Jingle Bell Storage Rock

by Sunshine on December 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

‘Tis the season for holly hocks, eggnog, and pundits predicting industry trends for the coming year. Apparently, in the storage blogo-tweet-osphere, getting in the holiday spirit means poking fun at one another. One of the most notable entries is a series of “Letters to Father Christmas” penned by none other than one of our favorite [...]

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Why Most Presentations are so Awful

by Sunshine on December 17, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage optimization

George Crump of Storage Switzerland has a post up today on Network Computing that really should be made required reading for every single mid-level executive in the storage industry and beyond. He offers the following simple, straightforward advice: “…every vendor’s opening slide should have three bullets: The exact problem the solve, why they are different, [...]

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Ocarina in Japan

by Mike Davis on December 14, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

Note: This is a special contribution by Eric Scollard, VP Sales, Ocarina. Japan is the #2 IT market in the world behind the US, so for a growing company like Ocarina it is only a matter of when. not if, we should do business there. Last week, Mike Stoffel, Director of Engineering and I went [...]

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Data Reduction to Improve Consumer Experience

Data Reduction to Improve Consumer Experience

by Mike Davis on December 10, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

Two identical photos placed side by side. Both are are blown up to large size on the wall. The difference? One has been compressed by 70% using a specialized compression technique called NFO, while the other is the original. Can you tell the difference? This was the challenge we offered participants at the recent Gestalt [...]

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Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

by Sunshine on December 7, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization, cloud

It’s been a tough year — a worldwide recession, a sluggish housing market, rising unemployment … and on top of all that, the tarnished image of one of sports’ most squeaky clean players. Well, actually, there have been some bright spots. As DCIG blogger and storage analyst Jerome Wendt notes while looking back at the [...]

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Data Deluge – Are you Prepared?

Data Deluge – Are you Prepared?

by Sunshine on December 4, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Uncategorized, capacity optimization

Dell’s Inside Enterprise IT blog has identified “10 Trends to watch carefully.” The post is from the Gartner Data Center conference that wraps up today in Las Vegas. One of the biggest and most important trends? The coming “data deluge” that will pile onto company IT departments like a load of bricks. Over the next [...]

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Techasaurus Rex

by Sunshine on December 2, 2009 in Storage, cloud

Two items jumped out at me this week. First, Francine Hardaway’s post on being an early adopter, “Do You Write in the Cloud?” and second, this New York Times story about Cormac McCarthy’s typewriter. Hardaway, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Stealthmode Partners talks about how she and other bloggers compose their text. Mashable‘s Pete [...]

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