This is an exciting year for Dell storage customers because this is the year you will begin to see the results of our recent storage acquisitions – including Exanet, Ocarina and Compellent – and how they combine to support our Dell storage vision. Most importantly, you will see how this strategy will help you use [...]
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Dell to Work with OEMs
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 [...]
Dedupe Or Compression? Both! Optimization or Performance? Both!
Interest in and discussion of data deduplication and primary storage compression seems to be at an all-time high right now. In the last few weeks, we have seen new entrants into the market, including Permabit, and a broad overview from Wikibon, focused on storage optimization. At Ocarina, we see industry discussions such as these as [...]
Protecting Compressed Data and Reducing Costs
As @storagebod (Martin Glassborow) noted today in a blog post, the issue of protecting deduplicated data is an important one for any business. Deduplication and other data reduction technologies offer the opportunity for increased data protection at a reduced cost. When you hit a threshold of 50% or greater overall data reduction, it lowers the [...]
To Pluto and Beyond!
Thanks to EMC’s sponsorship, the effort started by the UC Berkeley School of information in 2003 to quantify the global trends in creation of digital data continues under IDC’s able supervision. The latest report, “The Digital Universe Decade,” is hot off the press, and breaks the banks on crazy metaphors for how much data is produced and [...]
If You Do Dedupe on Primary Storage, Do You Have to Expand It to do Backups?
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 [...]
One More Time: In-Band Versus Post-Process
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, [...]
Words of Wisdom: Let’s get Organized
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 [...]
Deduplication: From Point Solution to Data Center Strategy
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 [...]
Our Thoughts on Performance and Recent Dedupe/Compression Comments
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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- Get Ready for Dedupe 2.0
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The impending storage crunch
- Cloud Humor Hits Blogosphere
- Dedupe for Primary – Another Shade of Blue
- Tiered Storage – A Virtual Future
- Tech Field Day – The Home Stretch
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Who’s Really Melting the Ice Cap?
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Ocarina Goes To Hollywood
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Announcing the DR4000 backup-to-disk appliance
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Sharing Our Storage Vision
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Dedupe & Compression for Long-Term Archival?
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Dell Day 2
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Dell to Work with OEMs
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InformationWeek Shows Strong Dedupe and Compression Demand
- The best is yet to come
- Accelerating our Mission
- Passing along what we learned from OEMs
- Dedupe Or Compression? Both! Optimization or Performance? Both!
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Enterprise Features: I'm really excited about the Globabl Dedupe featur...
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josephmartins: A bit late for me to comment, but I will anyway. ...
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Mike Davis: Hi Paul, we are installed alongside a lot of Isilo...
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Paul: Any news on integration with Isilon Systems storag...
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Sunshine Mugrabi: Thanks everyone. It means so much to hear this fro...
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Greg White: Congrats Sunshine. Will miss your blogs, but I wo...
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George Crump: I think I learned more from you, but thanks for th...
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Mike Davis: Everyone at Ocarina sincerely appreciates all the ...
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The Storage Alchemist: Oh, one more question - Deduplication and Compress...
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