This week, many of our crew are attending NAB Show, the annual mega-convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas. Why do we need to be there? Well, more and more, the business of making shows and movies has become inextricably linked to the need to store immense files.
To add to the excitement, we are announcing partnerships with two major storage vendors, HDS and BlueArc today. Both are making their storage Ocarina Optimized, thus adding our groundbreaking compression and dedupe to their offerings.
Updates: Beth Pariseau has a very well written and researched SearchStorage article up that explains the partnerships in depth. Definitely worth a read!
On Wednesday, Chris Mellor at the UK Register wrote about the BlueArc-Ocarina partnership as well, with this piece.
With BlueArc, we’re announcing the Ocarina Optimizer for BlueArc. This integrates Ocarina’s data reduction technology seamlessly with the BlueArc Titan storage solutions. CGI animation leader Rainmaker Entertainment–makers of kids animation movies, most recently an animated sequel to the original, Jerry Lewis “The Nutty Professor”–finds this combined solution an ideal method of keeping files accessible during the making of an entire CGI film, which can easily run into petabytes of data.
With HDS, we’re joining the Hitachi Data Systems Technical Alliance Partner (TAP) ISV Program. In doing so, Ocarina helps HDS customers “stretch their IT storage dollars to support the phenomenal growth of unstructured data,” as Asim Zaheer, vice president of product and competitive marketing, Hitachi Data Systems put it.
Exciting times for this industry, as well as our company. We hope to see you at NAB if you’re there.
