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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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A Q&A with Michael Callahan, HP

A Q&A with Michael Callahan, HP

by Sunshine on May 22, 2009 in Featured, File Systems, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

We’ve been hearing about high capacity storage systems, such as HP’s Extreme Data Storage 9100 System (ExDS9100) for the past year or so. There’s clearly huge potential for using these types of systems to manage many terabytes of data. We decided to sit down with Michael Callahan, chief technologist for network-attached storage in the HP [...]

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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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Dedupe for Primary Hot Topic at SNW

by Sunshine on April 6, 2009 in File Systems

SNW is kicking off with a bang today, and primary storage optimization is the topic du jour. Ocarina Networks, the leader in content aware compression and dedupe for online storage is partnering with cloud storage provider Nirvanix. The combination means cost savings and improved throughput to customers looking to leverage content-aware compression and object deduplication [...]

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Reprise–Compressing Already Compressed Files

by Carter George on March 5, 2009 in File Systems, Ocarina, capacity optimization

Time to fire up the wayback machine and take a look at blog posts gone by. This one, written by Carter George last May, addresses the question of whether it’s possible to further compress already compressed files. With unstructured data loads skyrocketing, this question is as relevant now–if not more–than it was a year ago. [...]

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Ocarina Raises $20 Million

by Sunshine on February 25, 2009 in Featured, File Systems, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Today, Ocarina Networks announced that it closed a $20 million Series B funding round. This is obviously great news for the company, as well as a strong validation of what the Ocarina set out to accomplish. The funding round was led by Jafco Ventures, with significant participation from Series A investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & [...]

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Can You Compress Already Compressed Files? Part II

by Mike Davis on May 6, 2008 in Featured, File Systems, Storage

In my last post I discussed the fact that most files that are used are already compressed. And up to now, there were no algorithms to further compress them. Yet, it’s obvious that there needs to be a new solution. On the cutting edge, there are some new innovations in file-aware optimization that allow companies [...]

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Can you compress an already compressed file? Part I

by Mike Davis on May 1, 2008 in Featured, File Systems, Storage

We can all recognize the amount of data we generate. And just like we keep telling ourselves we’ll clean out the garage “one of these days” most of us rarely bother to clean out our email or photo sharing accounts. As a result, enterprise and internet data centers have to buy hundreds of thousands of [...]

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Greening storage

by Mike Davis on May 1, 2008 in File Systems, Storage

The New York Times Bits blog has a post on the need to green Internet and other data centers, “Data Centers are Becoming Big Polluters.” Citing a study by McKinsey & Company, Bits’ Steve Lohr states that data centers are “projected to surpass the airline industry as a greenhouse gas polluter by 2020.” He goes [...]

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Less is More–Part 2

by Mike Davis on April 25, 2008 in Featured, File Systems, Storage

As we all know, the internet is where there is huge storage growth, multi-petabyte scale, and a need to stay very close to the commodity price point on storage costs. There are two common threads across all of the “less is more” file systems that have been popping up to handle all this growth.  First, they [...]

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