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Announcing the DR4000 backup-to-disk appliance

by Mike Davis on January 13, 2012 in Storage

On Wednesday the 11th – at Dell Storage Forum in London – we launched the DR4000 disk-to-disk backup appliance, designed for SMB to mid-sized enterprise customers with small to moderate sized backup workflows. It’s always great to see a large company like Dell get a new technology into the market, where we can bring additional [...]

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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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Dedupe & Compression for Long-Term Archival?

by Mike Davis on October 1, 2010 in Storage, Storage optimization, Uncategorized

It was great to be invited to speak at the Library of Congress’s annual conference Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation where the core focus is on long-term archival…I mean reallllly long term preservation in some cases. The attendees represented a really well selected cross section of public and private organizations that had different perspectives, requirements, [...]

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InformationWeek Shows Strong Dedupe and Compression Demand

by Mike Davis on July 22, 2010 in Storage, Storage optimization

Data deduplication and compression are quickly becoming standards, with customers in a wide variety of markets and business sizes recognizing the value of saving money and reducing management through storage optimization. Earlier this week, InformationWeek released a research report highlighting how IT professionals were working to meet today’s exploding storage capacity demands. The report, unsurprisingly [...]

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All good things…

by Sunshine on March 31, 2010 in Ocarina, Storage

Today is a bit of a sad day for me, as this will be my last post on Online Storage Optimization. For those who are just joining us, I’ve been the regular “newsy” blogger on this site. It’s never been a traditional setup. I’m not an employee of this blog’s parent, Ocarina Networks. Rather, I’m [...]

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I dream of data reduction

by Sunshine on March 29, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

Data is growing at a dizzying rate. We need only look at our home computers to get a sense of how easy it is to fill our hard drives to overflowing with all manner of flotsam and jetsam. From family photos to LOLcats to videos of our kids, we’re finding it difficult if not impossible [...]

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Storing Health Care

by Sunshine on March 22, 2010 in Featured, Storage

This Monday morning we all awoke to the news that U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3590, a major health care reform package. Known as the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” it aims to ensure that more Americans will be covered by health insurance. It also makes it more difficult for insurance companies to [...]

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Tech Field Day Redux

by Sunshine on March 22, 2010 in Featured, Storage

It’s back… That’s right, on Gestalt IT you can now find details on the upcoming Tech Field Day, to be held in Boston April 8 and 9. This event brings together bloggers from around the world for two days of deep dives at tech companies. The result is expected to be a multitude of tweets, [...]

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Storage News and Views – March 17

by Sunshine on March 17, 2010 in Storage, Storage optimization

Across the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere today folks are donning green scarves, putting four leaf clovers in their lapels, and generally proclaiming the luck of the Irish. Yes, it’s a good life in storageland. And there’s plenty of news to amuse and bemuse. EMC made a big splash this week with a presentation to analysts by President [...]

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