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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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Get Ready for Dedupe 2.0

by Carter George on August 27, 2009 in Analyst, Featured, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Data deduplication has become a very hot topic these days, especially in light of EMC’s recent and very high profile acquisition of Data Domain. This week, analyst George Crump of Storage Switzerland made some predictions as to where this technology is heading. His post, The Foundation of DeDupe’s Next Era, asserts that it will require [...]

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Ocarina: The Movie

by Sunshine on August 21, 2009 in Ocarina, capacity optimization

As many people know, Ocarina Networks has been living up to its name lately. It really is becoming a “network”-oriented company, inking partnerships with just about all of the top storage vendors–HP, BlueArc, Isilon, and so on and so forth. This is great news for storage customers, who can now depend on the very best [...]

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Tiered Storage – A Virtual Future

by Carter George on August 20, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, cloud, green IT

There’s been a lot of discussion about tiered storage lately. Most notably, Stephen Foskett has written a series of posts on the topic on his Nirvanix blog, Enterprise Storage Strategies. In his latest post, he essentially argues that tiered storage hasn’t turned out to be cost effective and that cloud storage could be the best [...]

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Moving Pictures – An Interview With Animator Michael Zachary Huber

Moving Pictures – An Interview With Animator Michael Zachary Huber

by Sunshine on August 14, 2009 in Analyst, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

A few of the Ocarina crew recently returned from Siggraph2009, the 36th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Held in New Orleans the week of August 3-7, the event drew participants from around the world. We were newbies to the event, and so decided get some perspective from an industry veteran, [...]

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The Dedupe Race

The Dedupe Race

by Sunshine on August 14, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

The storage press has sniffed out a good story recently. Today, Beth Pariseau has a piece up on her Storage Soup blog that hones in on the drama surrounding the technology du jour–deduplication. The post, “HP to EMC/Data Domain: Bring it On” has a headline that’s reminiscent of the sort of fighting words we heard [...]

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If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution

by Sunshine on August 10, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

One question that we hear repeatedly about storage is why isn’t efficient enough? In today’s economy, reducing storage costs is a top priority. Yet, it can be confusing to navigate through every vendor’s pitch and figure out what will truly save you on storage now and in the long term. In thinking this through, I [...]

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What Was That Again?

by Sunshine on August 3, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Sometimes someone at Online Storage Optimization writes a post that is so controversial, so intense and thought-provoking, that it seems the entire world is lining up to read it. Later, we find out that while most of the world had a chance to peruse it, there was some small part of the global community–a system [...]

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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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