Archive | April, 2010

If You Do Dedupe on Primary Storage, Do You Have to Expand It to do Backups?

by Carter George on April 26, 2010 in Uncategorized

In his comment in the on-going discussion of the CORE formula ( Dedupe Rates Matter…Just Not as Much as You Think )      Steve Kenniston had the following to say about the relationship between shrinking data on primary storage and backups: Example, if I use Ocarina deduplication, but have already purchased Data Domain, don’t [...]

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One More Time: In-Band Versus Post-Process

by Carter George on April 23, 2010 in Uncategorized

My Mom always used to tell me, “You have to be able to distinguish between Need and Want”. I need a car.  I  want an Aston Martin. In Steve Kenniston’s post Storage’s 2010 Hottest Technology he says that customers who “require real-time random access compression….in front of their active solution” need something very fast. Well, [...]

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Words of Wisdom: Let’s get Organized

by Carter George on April 22, 2010 in Uncategorized

Let’s Organize This Discussion A Bit! I think there are at least three interesting topics you bring up here that are worth exploring further. Please see the recent post by David Vellante on Dedupe Rates Matter…Just Not as Much as You Think I’ll respond with a separate post on each of the following topics, so [...]

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Deduplication: From Point Solution to Data Center Strategy

by Carter George on April 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

Deduplication has been a hot topic in storage for several years now. Most of the focus has been on dedupe appliances sold in the backup market, by companies like Data Domain and Diligent (now IBM ProtecTIER).There have been dozens of articles written explaining the basic concepts, and comparing the implementations by various vendors. Dedupe is [...]

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Our Thoughts on Performance and Recent Dedupe/Compression Comments

by Carter George on April 16, 2010 in Uncategorized

In the recent InfoStor article on primary storage optimization http://www.infostor.com/index/articles/display/2460996926/articles/infostor/storage-management/2010/april-2010/consider-compression.html , Ocarina was mentioned along with some other vendors who have offerings that provide either dedupe or compression for primary storage. Ocarina is characterized as being a post-process solution.    This is a theme that we’ve seen in several product review pieces, and it’s worth clarifying. [...]

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Ocarina Adds Video Optimization to Its List of 900 File Types

by Mike Davis on April 7, 2010 in Uncategorized

Here is our official announcement on our ability to reduce more than 900 file types Ocarina Adds Video Optimization to Its List of 900 File Types Supported by Content-Aware Storage Solution Company’s Native File Optimization delivers best possible file compression while preserving video quality, retaining native file format SAN JOSE, Calif., Apr 07, 2010 — Ocarina [...]

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Ocarina Weighs in- Dedupe Ratios Do Matter

by Carter George on April 6, 2010 in Uncategorized

Every dedupe ratio can be converted to a percentage of data reduction and vice versa.    The dedupe ratio measures against what’s left after you’ve deduped. The percentage measures against the size of the data before you dedupe.   Both are valid measures.      It’s also true that some solutions do a better job shrinking your data than [...]

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