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Mike manages all marketing efforts at Ocarina.
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Announcing the DR4000 backup-to-disk appliance

Announcing the DR4000 backup-to-disk appliance

by Mike Davis on January 13, 2012 in Storage

On Wednesday the 11th – at Dell Storage Forum in London – we launched the DR4000 disk-to-disk backup appliance, designed for SMB to mid-sized enterprise customers with small to moderate sized backup workflows. It’s always great to see a large company like Dell get a new technology into the market, where we can bring additional [...]

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Dedupe & Compression for Long-Term Archival?

Dedupe & Compression for Long-Term Archival?

by Mike Davis on October 1, 2010 in Storage, Storage optimization, Uncategorized

It was great to be invited to speak at the Library of Congress’s annual conference Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation where the core focus is on long-term archival…I mean reallllly long term preservation in some cases. The attendees represented a really well selected cross section of public and private organizations that had different perspectives, requirements, [...]

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Dell Day 2

Dell Day 2

by Mike Davis on August 2, 2010 in Uncategorized

It’s a great experience going through a a positive transfer of ownership in a company, whether it’s an IPO or a strategic acquisition by a larger company. From an Engineering perspective, the day-to-day tasks are mostly unchanged, but there’s clearly something different in the air. Maybe it’s the fog hanging in the air, from all [...]

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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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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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Entering the Twittersphere

by Mike Davis on February 6, 2009 in Storage

This blog and rest of the folks at Ocarina Networks are now a part of what could be termed the “micro-blogosphere.” We speak of course of Twitter. Our handle, www.twitter.com/optimizestorage. We hope you’ll follow us, and we look forward to following you. Twitter has its pitfalls, as TechCrunch pointed out this week. But overall, we [...]

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Solving Cornell’s Storage Problems

by Mike Davis on February 5, 2009 in Featured, Storage

Great news for Ocarina Networks today — we’re working with the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) and DataDirect Networks (DDN) to perform extensive data compression testing on a diverse array of research applications. The goal here is address a problem they (and so many other research institutions) are facing — the exponential growth of [...]

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Test Your Storage Optimization IQ

Test Your Storage Optimization IQ

by Mike Davis on February 5, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization

Here’s a quick quiz to see how smart you are about primary storage optimization: 1. True or false: the only type of deduplication on the market today is block level deduplication–the type that looks at the zeros and ones on disk, and removes the duplicates. 2. Content aware deduplication is: a) More effective than other types [...]

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What’s Next for Online Storage

by Mike Davis on February 4, 2009 in Featured, Storage

Pete Steege has a post today that rightly alerts us to the next wave of storage capacity demand–fatter network pipes, which, as he puts it, “beget fat storage.” Also worth noting today: The NY Times is reporting that Netflix is taking a step closer to an “any movie, any time” model. Plenty to consider in [...]

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Storage, the Final Frontier

Storage, the Final Frontier

by Mike Davis on February 3, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Remember the holodeck? Turns out some Stanford researchers have figured out a way to use holographics to store data. This is a quantum leap, and while actual commercial usage is many years away, but this is the kind of innovation that makes Silicon Valley great. Thanks to Robin Harris for discovering and posting this.

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