Archive | July, 2010
Dell to Work with OEMs

Dell to Work with OEMs

by Carter George on July 29, 2010 in Ocarina

The acquisition of Ocarina by Dell has now closed, and we can now say some things about where we are headed.  Mergers and acquisitions can often be a time of confusion, as the new combined company figures out what the new plan will be. I’d like to use this first blog after the closing of [...]

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InformationWeek Shows Strong Dedupe and Compression Demand

InformationWeek Shows Strong Dedupe and Compression Demand

by Mike Davis on July 22, 2010 in Storage, Storage optimization

Data deduplication and compression are quickly becoming standards, with customers in a wide variety of markets and business sizes recognizing the value of saving money and reducing management through storage optimization. Earlier this week, InformationWeek released a research report highlighting how IT professionals were working to meet today’s exploding storage capacity demands. The report, unsurprisingly [...]

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The best is yet to come

by Sunshine on July 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

For almost exactly a year, I had the privilege of being a blogger for this site, Online Storage Optimization. It was one of the most fulfilling collaborations of my professional life. When I heard the news yesterday that Dell would be acquiring Ocarina Networks, my first reaction was pride. I couldn’t help but give myself [...]

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Accelerating our Mission

by Murli Thirumale on July 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

By now you may have heard the news that Ocarina will become part of Dell. Many of you who have been following Ocarina over the last few years may wonder why a company with exciting technology, huge customer success and rapidly growing revenues would sell itself at this time.  The answer is simple:  it accelerates [...]

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Passing along what we learned from OEMs

by Mike Davis on July 18, 2010 in Uncategorized

It’s an exciting time at Ocarina, because we’re right in the middle of a wave of OEM efforts to bring data-reduction to market as a standard feature across a wide variety of storage implementations. ECOsystem for OEMs is an Ocarina offering of software libraries and APIs that allows storage OEMs and ISVs to embed data-reduction [...]

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