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Sharing Our Storage Vision

Sharing Our Storage Vision

by Carter George on April 15, 2011 in Featured, File Systems, Ocarina, Storage, Uncategorized

This is an exciting year for Dell storage customers because this is the year you will begin to see the results of our recent storage acquisitions – including Exanet, Ocarina and Compellent – and how they combine to support our Dell storage vision. Most importantly, you will see how this strategy will help you use [...]

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I dream of data reduction

I dream of data reduction

by Sunshine on March 29, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

Data is growing at a dizzying rate. We need only look at our home computers to get a sense of how easy it is to fill our hard drives to overflowing with all manner of flotsam and jetsam. From family photos to LOLcats to videos of our kids, we’re finding it difficult if not impossible [...]

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Storing Health Care

by Sunshine on March 22, 2010 in Featured, Storage

This Monday morning we all awoke to the news that U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3590, a major health care reform package. Known as the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” it aims to ensure that more Americans will be covered by health insurance. It also makes it more difficult for insurance companies to [...]

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Tech Field Day Redux

by Sunshine on March 22, 2010 in Featured, Storage

It’s back… That’s right, on Gestalt IT you can now find details on the upcoming Tech Field Day, to be held in Boston April 8 and 9. This event brings together bloggers from around the world for two days of deep dives at tech companies. The result is expected to be a multitude of tweets, [...]

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Where are the big chunks of storage space?

Where are the big chunks of storage space?

by Sunshine on March 5, 2010 in Featured, Storage, green IT

This headline doesn’t refer to data in any kind of virtual sense of the word. Rather, there is an interesting factoid buried in a piece on the site Data Center Knowledge. Companies are finding it difficult to find big chunks of contiguous floor space, despite a growing demand. Citing a recent survey by Digital Realty [...]

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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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The Environment Still Matters

by Sunshine on February 22, 2010 in Analyst, Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Uncategorized, green IT

With all the talk about the data inconsistencies around climate change theory, one issue that I’d hate to see lost in the shuffle is the actual environment. That is, while I personally have been skeptical for some time about the alarmist tone many scientists took regarding global warming, it would be a shame if there [...]

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Storage Trends – Customer is King

Storage Trends – Customer is King

by Sunshine on February 4, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

Last week’s BD Event was more than just a deal making event. It was a chance to learn about new product releases and trend in the storage industry. The big picture: gone are the days when end users had to accept whatever the storage industry handed down to them. Today’s small-to-medium-sized storage operations are all [...]

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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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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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