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Shameless Plug – Vote Online Sto Op Today!

Shameless Plug – Vote Online Sto Op Today!

by Sunshine on January 14, 2010 in Blogroll, Featured

It’s that time again. Storage Monkeys is a running a contest for the Top 10 Vendor Blogs, and once again, Online Storage Optimization is a nominee! Even more exciting, this blogger is listed on there, making it the only entrant with a woman blogger. Not to play the gender card or anything, but to me [...]

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Storage Industry Lags Behind Advances in Compression

by Carter George on January 13, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

There’s a lot of talk about compression these days, but how much do we know about it? Well, for one thing, compression as a research area for mathematics has evolved much faster than most people realize. The thing is, most compressors used in computer products, including dedupe appliances, use generic algorithms rather than making use [...]

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Going Social – EMC stands tall

by Sunshine on January 11, 2010 in Blogroll, Featured, Storage

If you haven’t yet tuned into the weekly podcast known as Infosmack on community site Storage Monkeys, you’re missing out. Every Monday, hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley bring on guests to dish about the latest storage industry news–and they do so in a very entertaining and informative way. This week’s show was particularly enjoyable, [...]

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The Year in Images

The Year in Images

by Sunshine on December 30, 2009 in Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

This past year, we at Online Storage Op gathered all manner of images to illustrate our posts. So as a way of looking back at 2009, here are some of the ones we liked the best–and the stories that went with them: Holodeck fun: In February, Robin Harris at StorageMojo wrote about a potential breakthrough [...]

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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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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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Ocarina Named one of Top 10 Networking Companies

by Murli Thirumale on November 10, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Uncategorized, green IT

We were pleased to receive word this week that SiliconIndia Magazine named Ocarina Networks one of its Top 10 Networking Companies, and one of its Top 100 Companies for 2009. The publication’s annual  “si100″ is a listing of the top 100 technology companies founded and managed by Indians in the U.S. According to the magazine, [...]

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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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