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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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Fast and Effective Dedupe

by Carter George on March 3, 2010 in Analyst, Featured, Ocarina, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, green IT

I’ve noticed a few blog posts recently about speed of deduplication in the modern data center. I agree that speed is an important factor, but keep in mind that not all dedupe is created equal. That is to say, fast is good, but only if you are also effective. One of the tricky things has [...]

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Databases – Compression Targets?

by Carter George on January 16, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina

The headline of this post poses a question that was raised in a recent comments discussion between Dave Vellante of Wikibon and myself on this blog. Dave wanted to know if there are use cases in which generic compression might still be useful. As I wrote in my post, most of the storage industry still [...]

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Storage Industry Lags Behind Advances in Compression

by Carter George on January 13, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

There’s a lot of talk about compression these days, but how much do we know about it? Well, for one thing, compression as a research area for mathematics has evolved much faster than most people realize. The thing is, most compressors used in computer products, including dedupe appliances, use generic algorithms rather than making use [...]

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Going Native CIFS

by Carter George on November 2, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, green IT

A recent comment on this blog got me thinking, and this post is the result. The commenter, who identified him or herself only as “Sto Rage” asked: “When can we expect native CIFS support on the Ocarina platforms? The current implementation is outright clunky. So until you have a working CIFS implementation, I don’t think [...]

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OEM or Not, Here We Come

by Carter George on October 28, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

In today’s UK Register, Chris Mellor talked with Brian Biles of Data Domain about its plans for global dedupe. In it, Brian says that Ocarina is not “synergistic” with Data Domain. Writes Chris: “Data Domain set out to solve a data protection problem whereas Ocarina set out to solve a media management problem.” He then [...]

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Dedupe Misconceptions

by Carter George on October 20, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization

As most in the industry are aware, dedupe has becoming a standard offering from every major vendor. Dedupe for primary has become the technology of the moment, and for good reason–the rising tide of unstructured data is forcing data centers worldwide to rethink capacity planning, tiering, and storage efficiency. But there are still a few [...]

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Dedupe for Primary–Everyone’s Talkin’

by Carter George on October 7, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Uncategorized, green IT

It’s very interesting to write for a blog that is focused on a specific topic–in our case, dedupe for primary–and then suddenly see the whole world wake up to the reality of it all at once. There has been quite the pile-on in the storage blogosphere of late. So, what has been said so far? [...]

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Ocarina-EMC vs. NetApp: No Contest

Ocarina-EMC vs. NetApp: No Contest

by Carter George on October 6, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Uncategorized, capacity optimization

Great news–Ocarina has announced that its solution for EMC Celerra is available immediately, offering its advanced, content-aware dedupe and compression to EMC NAS customers. While Ocarina already had a solution for EMC Celerra, this announcement means that has been admitted to the EMC Velocity Technology and ISV Program. A major step forward. EMC has other [...]

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Great Minds Think Together

by Carter George on September 25, 2009 in Featured, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

This week, the New York Times Bits blog reported that a winner has been announced in the $1 million Netflix challenge. The prize went to the team that could come up with a better “predictor” of customer behavior than the company’s current in-house software, Cinematch. It’s more than a gimmick. Having a reliable and effective [...]

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