Tag Archives: CloudNAS

Dedupe Grows Up

by Sunshine on July 29, 2009 in Analyst, Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization

George Crump has a piece in Byte and Switch today that poses an important question: “Can we get to a single point of deduplication?” This is a question that we have taken up in one form or another in some of our recent posts, such as this one and this one. In the article, Crump [...]

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Reaching the Moon Through the Cloud

Reaching the Moon Through the Cloud

by Sunshine on July 3, 2009 in cloud

A story caught my eye this morning that I just couldn’t help but blog about. Dave Simpson over at InfoStor is reporting that our friends at Nirvanix are providing cloud storage for a NASA mission to orbit the moon! As Simpson points out this is perhaps the most creative usage of cloud storage we’ve seen. [...]

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The Future of NAS — Hint: Data Reduction is a Big Part of It

by Sunshine on July 1, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, capacity optimization

If it isn’t already, then Stephen Foskett’s Enterprise Storage Strategies blog for Nirvanix should be on your reading list. Today he has an interesting take on some statistics that have emerged on the future of NAS, as collected by analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group. Analyst Terri McClure has an excellent post on the results. Here [...]

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May the Seuss-Off Begin…

May the Seuss-Off Begin…

by Sunshine on March 3, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization

Just in time to celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss (of which any Google user was made aware yesterday), blogger Christopher Hoff has penned a Seussian paean to the hotter than hot technology du jour, cloud computing. The poem goes on for over 20 stanzas, and covers immense ground by comparing this craze with the [...]

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Cloud Humor Hits Blogosphere

by Sunshine on February 20, 2009 in Storage

With so much talk about the cloud on blogs far and wide, it was inevitable, I suppose. Blogger Dave Graham has penned a piece, with tongue firmly in cheek, about the various “cloud personality types” that are out there, based on the DSM. He is still updating the post. So far, my personal favorites are: [...]

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Nice to be a Finalist

by Mike Davis on January 28, 2009 in Storage

My company Ocarina Networks received word this week that Storage Magazine has named us a Storage Management Category finalist in the Storage Magazine Annual Products of the Year Awards. This is yet another strong validation not only of our business proposition, but of our overall belief that dedupe for online storage–and capacity optimization in general–are [...]

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