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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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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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Happy New Year

by Sunshine on December 29, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, green IT

Tis the week for the “out of office” email messages. But the storage blogo-tweet-osphere waits for no man. Here are a few posts that caught my eye this week. Bas Raayman sees CPU power hitting the wall: The RAM per CPU wall Rick Vanover says 2010 could be the year for 10GigE – Will 2010 [...]

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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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Dedupe for Primary–Everyone’s Talkin’

by Carter George on October 7, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Uncategorized, green IT

It’s very interesting to write for a blog that is focused on a specific topic–in our case, dedupe for primary–and then suddenly see the whole world wake up to the reality of it all at once. There has been quite the pile-on in the storage blogosphere of late. So, what has been said so far? [...]

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Gmail File Limits – WOW!

by Sunshine on September 15, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, green IT

There’s a really interesting post up this week by Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land about how he blew through his gmail space limit. Hardly the usual experience–most of us are using only a small percentage of our overall space. But it happened to him, and made him stop and think. He became suddenly aware [...]

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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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