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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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Why Most Presentations are so Awful

by Sunshine on December 17, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage optimization

George Crump of Storage Switzerland has a post up today on Network Computing that really should be made required reading for every single mid-level executive in the storage industry and beyond. He offers the following simple, straightforward advice: “…every vendor’s opening slide should have three bullets: The exact problem the solve, why they are different, [...]

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Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

by Sunshine on December 7, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization, cloud

It’s been a tough year — a worldwide recession, a sluggish housing market, rising unemployment … and on top of all that, the tarnished image of one of sports’ most squeaky clean players. Well, actually, there have been some bright spots. As DCIG blogger and storage analyst Jerome Wendt notes while looking back at the [...]

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Dedupe Deep Dive – Video

by Sunshine on November 25, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

Lots of special treats awaited the participants of Gestalt IT Tech Field Day. While visiting the offices on November 13 Goutham Rao, CTO of Ocarina Networks stood at the whiteboard and offered a deep dive into the technology behind the company. It was a big hit with the participants. For those who would like a [...]

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Pop a Dedupe Cork

Pop a Dedupe Cork

by Sunshine on November 18, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

Seems New Year’s is coming early this year. Across the pond in the UK, Ocarina and our partner BlueArc have decided to hand out bottles of bubbly to all and sundry. In short, anyone suffering from a storage hangover–that is, any company that is saddled with more than 20 TB of unstructured data–is eligible for [...]

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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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Tech Field Day Cometh

Tech Field Day Cometh

by Sunshine on November 11, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, cloud

Excitement is building here at Ocarina as tomorrow is the big kickoff for Tech Field Day, and we’re a presenting sponsor of the event. As we speak, cables are being laid, demos are being run through, and a certain amount of nervous excitement is in the air. In just two short days, a horde of [...]

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Bring Out Your Data – The Deets

by Sunshine on November 4, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Lots of speculation this past week in the storage tweet-o-blog-0sphere around our “Bring Out Your Data” Challenge for Tech Field Day. We can’t wait to see what these smart and savvy participants bring us, and we’re confident about the results. There will be prizes awarded for those who stymie us and those who get the [...]

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Next Gen Sequencing – The Next Exabyte Market

by Mike Davis on September 30, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

I just got back from the Exploring Next Generation Sequencing conference held at the Rhode Island Conference Center in Providence, RH. I was pleased to encounter a number of folks who were extremely enthusiastic about the Ocarina solution for Life Sciences. In a way, I shouldn’t have been all that surprised. We’re the only vendor [...]

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Great Minds Think Together

by Carter George on September 25, 2009 in Featured, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

This week, the New York Times Bits blog reported that a winner has been announced in the $1 million Netflix challenge. The prize went to the team that could come up with a better “predictor” of customer behavior than the company’s current in-house software, Cinematch. It’s more than a gimmick. Having a reliable and effective [...]

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