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Dedupe Grows Up

by Sunshine on July 29, 2009 in Analyst, Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization

George Crump has a piece in Byte and Switch today that poses an important question: “Can we get to a single point of deduplication?” This is a question that we have taken up in one form or another in some of our recent posts, such as this one and this one. In the article, Crump [...]

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The Future of NAS — Hint: Data Reduction is a Big Part of It

by Sunshine on July 1, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, capacity optimization

If it isn’t already, then Stephen Foskett’s Enterprise Storage Strategies blog for Nirvanix should be on your reading list. Today he has an interesting take on some statistics that have emerged on the future of NAS, as collected by analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group. Analyst Terri McClure has an excellent post on the results. Here [...]

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When You Only Have a Hammer…

by Carter George on May 7, 2009 in Analyst, File Systems, Ocarina, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, cloud, green IT

Nice to see Dave Simpson from InfoStor getting interested in the subject of dedupe for primary. Today, he had a new post on the topic, along with a plug for a webcast he’s doing on the topic with Noemi Greyzdorf of IDC. In the post, Dave makes the point that people are starting to muddy [...]

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Wikibon – A New Analyst Paradigm?

by Sunshine on April 29, 2009 in Analyst

Here’s a sign of the times. While on a conference call to interview Wikibon‘s co-founder Dave Vellante this morning, he, several others on the call, and I were all tweeting about the experience in real time. Welcome to today’s socially networked, version 3.0 of business life. Wikibon is founded on a new and some might [...]

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Twitter – Not for the Faint of Heart

by Carter George on April 24, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, Ocarina, capacity optimization

Earlier this week on Twitter, we experienced what it’s like to have real time, public discussions with bloggers, analysts, and journalists about our product. It was a great example of why Twitter is such a powerful tool for talking about technology–not to mention one that can be a little hair-raising. It started when Martin Glassborow, [...]

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How to Cut Storage Costs – Taneja

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

The explosive growth of data is threatening to overwhelm any number of industries. Whether we’re talking about an online photo sharing site or high throughput gene sequencing lab, the pain is the same. There’s too much data and not enough space to store it on, with the result that costs are spiraling out of control. [...]

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2009–the Year of Storage Optimization

by Mike Davis on January 28, 2009 in Analyst, Storage optimization

Storage consultant Tony Asaro cut straight to the chase on his HDS blog with his top prediction for 2009: “IT professionals will focus on optimization. I should end my blog right here. Nothing is more important this year.” We couldn’t agree more, Tony. As data volumes grow – and budgets shrink –doing more with less is [...]

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Are you Content Aware?

by Mike Davis on October 2, 2008 in Analyst, Storage

Storage analyst Robin Harris commented on the storage story of the week–NetApp’s Guarantee that virtualization will mean a 50% gain in storage capacity for its customers.  Harris’s take on the announcement is that dedupe for primary storage could be “the next big win for IT shops.” Perhaps, but let’s keep in mind that NetApp dedupe is [...]

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Nice to be quoted/mentioned

by Mike Davis on June 30, 2008 in Analyst, Storage

It’s not always clear whether I’m making an impact, but this past week was one of those times when I realized that some others are taking note of the excitement around and importance I attach to the concept of storage optimization. In a June 27 editorial article in Processor, “Doing More With Less,” I was [...]

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What to do about the coming video explosion

What to do about the coming video explosion

by Mike Davis on June 4, 2008 in Analyst, Storage

Pete Steege’s Storage Effect is commenting today on an ABI report that highlights the explosion of video content on the web, which expected to increase to one billion viewers by 2013. Steege’s response is that the report ignores the “digital home,” which will no doubt become ubiquitous in the coming years. I agree, and would [...]

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