Ocarina Bests NetApp

In case you haven’t heard yet, the news is out that Ocarina Networks provides better data reduction results than NetApp. An independent study from Storage Switzerland, commissioned by Ocarina, pitted the two solutions in a head-to-head trial. It found that the complete Ocarina solution, a combination of content-aware compression and deduplication, beat NetApp dedupe by as much as 57x. The results of this test were not subtle. You can do your own calculations to consider the space savings you would gain by using Ocarina.

This is yet another validation that a next generation, content-aware approach to data reduction is what’s called for when it comes to online data sets. I have created this graph to illustrate the respective reduction results by percentage. See below:

Here’s the breakdown by data set comparing NetApp’s complete solution against Ocarina’s complete solution in terms of the amount of reduction each one was able to achieve:

Home Shares:

NetApp: 27%

Ocarina: 54%

Internet Media:

NetApp: 2%

Ocarina: 51%

Media and Entertainment:

NetApp: 21%

Ocarina: 49%

Oil and Gas

NetApp: 0%

Ocarina: 48%

Life Sciences

NetApp: 6%

Ocarina: 46%

For more information and to download the complete study, please visit: http://www.storage-switzerland.com/Articles/Entries/2009/5/11_Lab_Report_Overview_- _The_Deduplication_of_Primary_Storage.html.

The report is also available on the Ocarina resources page.