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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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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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Saving Money on Storage – Webinar

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

Many organizations are struggling to manage their storage in the face of a massive upsurge in the amount of data that must be stored and made accessible. To save on primary storage costs, it’s imperative to make sure that it is being deployed in the most efficient way possible. As we’ve already been discussing at [...]

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Ocarina: The Movie

by Sunshine on August 21, 2009 in Ocarina, capacity optimization

As many people know, Ocarina Networks has been living up to its name lately. It really is becoming a “network”-oriented company, inking partnerships with just about all of the top storage vendors–HP, BlueArc, Isilon, and so on and so forth. This is great news for storage customers, who can now depend on the very best [...]

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The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town

by Sunshine on August 11, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

As I mentioned in a blog post yesterday, the media is beginning to swoop down and take note of yesterday’s announcement that HP is now an official reseller of Ocarina. It’s pretty darn big news. Here are some of the better articles that have appeared. I’ll add more as they come in, so keep rechecking [...]

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Getting Animated at SIGGRAPH

by Sunshine on August 4, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

This week, Ocarina sent a contingent to SIGGRAPH 2009, a conference and exhibition that draws computer graphics, animation, post-production, and imaging specialists from around the globe. Lots of toys to look at, and stories to hear. We are there through the end of this week, spending time in the booths of two of our partners, [...]

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Doing More With Less

by Sunshine on July 23, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, capacity optimization

If you’re trying to figure out how to do more with less when it comes to your storage, I’d strongly suggest you participate in an upcoming Webinar, “How to Use Storage Tiering to Create Cost Efficient Storage of your Online Data.” It will take place on August 5 at 9 a.m. PDT and 12 p.m. [...]

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The Dedupe Wars

by Carter George on April 30, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

At Ocarina, we’re having a great deal of success these days with partnerships, and the buzz around this is being seen in the storage press and beyond. What has happened in part is that now that NetApp has made dedupe table stakes, we are the dance partner that many vendors are turning to, as we [...]

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What We’re Reading – April 28

by Sunshine on April 28, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

An interesting day today in that there isn’t too much in the way of hard news, but plenty o’ commentary floating around the old blog-o-tweet-o-news-o-sphere regarding storage. First, lots of buzz about Ocarina this past week: We earned a nice mention in the keynote address at BIO IT World, where Ocarina is in attendance and [...]

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NAB-bing some Announcements

by Sunshine on April 20, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

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 [...]

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