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The Power Dilemma

by Sunshine on August 18, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, green IT

Steve Duplessie has a very interesting post up on his blog today. It is part of a series he’s doing on scarcity. He seeks to understand what made deduplication vendor Data Domain so attractive to both EMC and NetApp. What he comes to is that scarcity is now focused around power, cooling and rackspace. At [...]

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Thanks to our Readers

by Sunshine on July 22, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, green IT

As the new vendor storage blog on the block, Online Storage Optimization has a lot to be grateful for. Since our relaunch in February, we have become a known source of opinion and information on the very hot topic of data deduplication. You, our readers, are the reason we exist. Your comments and thoughts are [...]

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Data Centers Grow Up, Chill Out

Data Centers Grow Up, Chill Out

by Sunshine on July 16, 2009 in Storage, green IT

Lots of news about improvements in data centers this week. It’s as if suddenly, a whole bunch of folks woke up and realized that these things are here to stay, and so need some extra attention. For example, Data Center Knowledge is reporting that Datapipe has built a beautiful, glass-enclosed atrium for its data center. [...]

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Have a Green Storage Day

by Sunshine on June 26, 2009 in Ocarina, green IT

Even in these recessionary times. Green IT continues to gain momentum. This, according to a recent survey from Symantec, which states: “Virtually all the companies surveyed are discussing their Green strategy. They are not just talking, either. Green budgets are on the rise and IT is more than willing to pay a premium on energy [...]

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Deduplication – A Hot Topic

by Sunshine on June 11, 2009 in Ocarina, green IT

In the wake of the news that EMC and NetApp are bidding close to $2 billion (yes, you heard that right, billion) for backup deduplication specialist Data Domain, a whole lot of people are starting to ask, “just what is this deduplication stuff anyway?” On this very blog, readers are clicking on the “Deduplication” tag [...]

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Why Not Green-IT?

by Sunshine on June 9, 2009 in Blogroll, green IT

Some interesting news items in the world of Green IT caught my eye this week. First, University College Hospital Galway won the Irish “Green IT Initiative of the Year” award for its multifaceted usage of storage technologies to reduce power, space and cooling at its facility. Using a combination of virtualization, thin provisioning and other [...]

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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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Happy Earth Day

Happy Earth Day

by Sunshine on April 22, 2009 in green IT

It’s a beautiful, sunny day in San Jose, a fitting reminder of the amazing planet we celebrate today.  To me, every day is earth day, because for now at least, this is our home. We can treat it well, or we can treat it with less than total regard. It’s our choice. On this blog, [...]

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Storage News and Notes – VMwariness, Greening Storage, Larry Shops

by Sunshine on April 21, 2009 in Storage, capacity optimization, cloud, green IT

Happy Tuesday. It’s been one doozy of a week. A heatwave hit Silicon Valley, both in reality and in the more metaphorical sense–in other words, the Sun seemed to be shining all over the place. And it’s also been an exciting week right here at Ocarina, as mentioned in an earlier post. Here are a [...]

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Solar Power … In Space?

Solar Power … In Space?

by Sunshine on April 14, 2009 in green IT

Plenty of commentary on one particular storage story filling up the blogosphere today, and so we felt no need to stick our oar in–at least not yet. Instead, here’s a news story that made me sit up and take notice. According to GigaOm greentech blog Earth2Tech, California’s megautility PG&E is in the midst of a [...]

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