Accelerating our Mission

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 our mission and is great for our people.  Our mission is compelling:  We will be the industry leader in primary data reduction by the year 2012.  Dell takes our current trajectory and straps a big rocket engine to it.  Their success with the EqualLogic product, huge customer footprint, leadership in servers (where we can embed our technology) and the fact that they are excited about our OEM path already ensures that we will now be supercharged on our path to our mission.  Dell’s tagline for the Enterprise business is “The Efficient Enterprise”.   We could not have come up with a better line for our dedupe solutions.  Business alignment? Check!

For our people, it is a great outcome.  Good people build great technology.  Great people build products that get used over and over again by a large number of customers.  Getting our world-beating dedupe solutions into the hands of a large number of customers rapidly is what we are all about.

We have been working with Dell for over a year.  The people we have met all the way from engineers up to Michael Dell are intellectually curious, direct, driven to succeed,  talented and fun to work with.  In fact, they are a lot like us at Ocarina! Culture alignment?  You bet baby! Finally, even with its success, Dell’s storage business is relatively new and their willingness to fund it (they bought us didn’t they?), long-term expansion plans and focus on talent acquisition ensures a great opportunity for the talented team we bring across all functions to Dell.

Primary dedupe leadership by the year 2012.  Now coming to you at rocketship speed powered by Ocarina AND Dell.  Watch out storage industry!