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Mike manages strategy and planning for Dell's FluidFS NAS, backup, and data reduction solutions in Dell's Enterprise Solutions Group.
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Expanding Role Of Data Deduplication

by Mike Davis on May 17, 2010 in Uncategorized

I came across this article on InformationWeek “Expanding Role of Data Deduplication,” and I thought I would share it. InformationWeek created a survey of 437 technology professionals and picked their brains regarding the technology of dedupe and how they might be using it within their infrastructures. The report is available free for a limited time [...]

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Ocarina Adds Video Optimization to Its List of 900 File Types

by Mike Davis on April 7, 2010 in Uncategorized

Here is our official announcement on our ability to reduce more than 900 file types Ocarina Adds Video Optimization to Its List of 900 File Types Supported by Content-Aware Storage Solution Company’s Native File Optimization delivers best possible file compression while preserving video quality, retaining native file format SAN JOSE, Calif., Apr 07, 2010 — Ocarina [...]

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Compression and Dedupe like Oil & Water?

by Mike Davis on March 31, 2010 in Uncategorized

Ocarina customer Imagination Technology got some good press the other day in a SearchStorage article reviewing solutions for primary storage optimization. Imagination based Northwest of London provides key pieces of semiconductor IP that are in just about every smart phone out there, and they used Ocarina to double their storage in the same datacenter footprint. [...]

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Last-minute online shopping spikes – boon or threat?

Last-minute online shopping spikes – boon or threat?

by Mike Davis on December 24, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

Tis the week of Christmas and all through the house, not a creature is stirring except to click their mouse. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are far behind us, but there are still a few doing their last-last-minute online shopping. This entire week, the tubes were getting clogged due to this. Akamai’s Retail Index shows [...]

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Ocarina in Japan

by Mike Davis on December 14, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

Note: This is a special contribution by Eric Scollard, VP Sales, Ocarina. Japan is the #2 IT market in the world behind the US, so for a growing company like Ocarina it is only a matter of when. not if, we should do business there. Last week, Mike Stoffel, Director of Engineering and I went [...]

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Data Reduction to Improve Consumer Experience

Data Reduction to Improve Consumer Experience

by Mike Davis on December 10, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

Two identical photos placed side by side. Both are are blown up to large size on the wall. The difference? One has been compressed by 70% using a specialized compression technique called NFO, while the other is the original. Can you tell the difference? This was the challenge we offered participants at the recent Gestalt [...]

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Next Gen Sequencing – The Next Exabyte Market

by Mike Davis on September 30, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

I just got back from the Exploring Next Generation Sequencing conference held at the Rhode Island Conference Center in Providence, RH. I was pleased to encounter a number of folks who were extremely enthusiastic about the Ocarina solution for Life Sciences. In a way, I shouldn’t have been all that surprised. We’re the only vendor [...]

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It’s Not Just About Storage Anymore

by Mike Davis on September 14, 2009 in Analyst, Featured, Ocarina, Storage optimization, Uncategorized

Bas Raayman, an SAP consultant has a post on StorageMonkeys that questions the emphasis on de-dupe and thin provisioning, when evidence is mounting that storage at many enterprises is largely underutilized. This got me thinking. Bas is asking a good question: Why bother shrinking your data when you’re only at 50% capacity? Now the premise [...]

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EMC Dedupe – Beyond Data Domain

by Mike Davis on July 27, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

With all the talk about the Data Domain acquisition, there less attention paid to EMC’s native de-dupe features in Celerra, not to mention its other related partnerships, such as with Ocarina for optimization of vertical applications. Last week I had the privilege of attending a webinar, “Surviving the Data Explosion through Data Reduction” with John [...]

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