Archive | March, 2010

All good things…

by Sunshine on March 31, 2010 in Ocarina, Storage

Today is a bit of a sad day for me, as this will be my last post on Online Storage Optimization. For those who are just joining us, I’ve been the regular “newsy” blogger on this site. It’s never been a traditional setup. I’m not an employee of this blog’s parent, Ocarina Networks. Rather, I’m [...]

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Compression and Dedupe like Oil & Water?

by Mike Davis on March 31, 2010 in Uncategorized

Ocarina customer Imagination Technology got some good press the other day in a SearchStorage article reviewing solutions for primary storage optimization. Imagination based Northwest of London provides key pieces of semiconductor IP that are in just about every smart phone out there, and they used Ocarina to double their storage in the same datacenter footprint. [...]

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I dream of data reduction

I dream of data reduction

by Sunshine on March 29, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

Data is growing at a dizzying rate. We need only look at our home computers to get a sense of how easy it is to fill our hard drives to overflowing with all manner of flotsam and jetsam. From family photos to LOLcats to videos of our kids, we’re finding it difficult if not impossible [...]

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Storing Health Care

by Sunshine on March 22, 2010 in Featured, Storage

This Monday morning we all awoke to the news that U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3590, a major health care reform package. Known as the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” it aims to ensure that more Americans will be covered by health insurance. It also makes it more difficult for insurance companies to [...]

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Tech Field Day Redux

by Sunshine on March 22, 2010 in Featured, Storage

It’s back… That’s right, on Gestalt IT you can now find details on the upcoming Tech Field Day, to be held in Boston April 8 and 9. This event brings together bloggers from around the world for two days of deep dives at tech companies. The result is expected to be a multitude of tweets, [...]

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Storage News and Views – March 17

Storage News and Views – March 17

by Sunshine on March 17, 2010 in Storage, Storage optimization

Across the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere today folks are donning green scarves, putting four leaf clovers in their lapels, and generally proclaiming the luck of the Irish. Yes, it’s a good life in storageland. And there’s plenty of news to amuse and bemuse. EMC made a big splash this week with a presentation to analysts by President [...]

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Make the right call

Make the right call

by Sunshine on March 10, 2010 in Analyst, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, green IT

Four out of five college students agree, this is not the way to deal with data growth. How about this instead?

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Where are the big chunks of storage space?

Where are the big chunks of storage space?

by Sunshine on March 5, 2010 in Featured, Storage, green IT

This headline doesn’t refer to data in any kind of virtual sense of the word. Rather, there is an interesting factoid buried in a piece on the site Data Center Knowledge. Companies are finding it difficult to find big chunks of contiguous floor space, despite a growing demand. Citing a recent survey by Digital Realty [...]

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Fast and Effective Dedupe

by Carter George on March 3, 2010 in Analyst, Featured, Ocarina, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, green IT

I’ve noticed a few blog posts recently about speed of deduplication in the modern data center. I agree that speed is an important factor, but keep in mind that not all dedupe is created equal. That is to say, fast is good, but only if you are also effective. One of the tricky things has [...]

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