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Dedupe Or Compression? Both! Optimization or Performance? Both!

by Carter George on June 8, 2010 in Analyst, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

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 [...]

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Make the right call

Make the right call

by Sunshine on March 10, 2010 in Analyst, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, green IT

Four out of five college students agree, this is not the way to deal with data growth. How about this instead?

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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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Tagged Gets Shrunk

Tagged Gets Shrunk

by Sunshine on January 29, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Interesting story from the vault of the Ocarina case study library. Social network Tagged is the third largest social network in the U.S. It has seen traffic increase 10x over the past two years. With its focus on making new friends rather than simply getting to know existing ones, it has carved out a successful [...]

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Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

by Sunshine on December 7, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization, cloud

It’s been a tough year — a worldwide recession, a sluggish housing market, rising unemployment … and on top of all that, the tarnished image of one of sports’ most squeaky clean players. Well, actually, there have been some bright spots. As DCIG blogger and storage analyst Jerome Wendt notes while looking back at the [...]

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Data Deluge – Are you Prepared?

Data Deluge – Are you Prepared?

by Sunshine on December 4, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Uncategorized, capacity optimization

Dell’s Inside Enterprise IT blog has identified “10 Trends to watch carefully.” The post is from the Gartner Data Center conference that wraps up today in Las Vegas. One of the biggest and most important trends? The coming “data deluge” that will pile onto company IT departments like a load of bricks. Over the next [...]

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Tech Field Day – Video

by Sunshine on November 16, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Tech Field Day may be over, but it lives on in digital form–scattered like so many tiny shreds of confetti across the interwebs. One of the delegates at the event, Rod Haywood, put together this video on his Musings of Rodos blog about Day 2 of the event, featuring interviews with Ocarina‘s own Goutham Rao, [...]

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Bring Out Your Data – The Deets

by Sunshine on November 4, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Lots of speculation this past week in the storage tweet-o-blog-0sphere around our “Bring Out Your Data” Challenge for Tech Field Day. We can’t wait to see what these smart and savvy participants bring us, and we’re confident about the results. There will be prizes awarded for those who stymie us and those who get the [...]

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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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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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