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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Dedupe & Compression for Long-Term Archival?
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, [...]
Passing along what we learned from OEMs
It’s an exciting time at Ocarina, because we’re right in the middle of a wave of OEM efforts to bring data-reduction to market as a standard feature across a wide variety of storage implementations. ECOsystem for OEMs is an Ocarina offering of software libraries and APIs that allows storage OEMs and ISVs to embed data-reduction [...]
Dedupe Or Compression? Both! Optimization or Performance? Both!
Interest in and discussion of data deduplication and primary storage compression seems to be at an all-time high right now. In the last few weeks, we have seen new entrants into the market, including Permabit, and a broad overview from Wikibon, focused on storage optimization. At Ocarina, we see industry discussions such as these as [...]
Protecting Compressed Data and Reducing Costs
As @storagebod (Martin Glassborow) noted today in a blog post, the issue of protecting deduplicated data is an important one for any business. Deduplication and other data reduction technologies offer the opportunity for increased data protection at a reduced cost. When you hit a threshold of 50% or greater overall data reduction, it lowers the [...]
If You Do Dedupe on Primary Storage, Do You Have to Expand It to do Backups?
In his comment in the on-going discussion of the CORE formula ( Dedupe Rates Matter…Just Not as Much as You Think ) Steve Kenniston had the following to say about the relationship between shrinking data on primary storage and backups: Example, if I use Ocarina deduplication, but have already purchased Data Domain, don’t [...]
One More Time: In-Band Versus Post-Process
My Mom always used to tell me, “You have to be able to distinguish between Need and Want”. I need a car. I want an Aston Martin. In Steve Kenniston’s post Storage’s 2010 Hottest Technology he says that customers who “require real-time random access compression….in front of their active solution” need something very fast. Well, [...]
Deduplication: From Point Solution to Data Center Strategy
Deduplication has been a hot topic in storage for several years now. Most of the focus has been on dedupe appliances sold in the backup market, by companies like Data Domain and Diligent (now IBM ProtecTIER).There have been dozens of articles written explaining the basic concepts, and comparing the implementations by various vendors. Dedupe is [...]
Our Thoughts on Performance and Recent Dedupe/Compression Comments
In the recent InfoStor article on primary storage optimization http://www.infostor.com/index/articles/display/2460996926/articles/infostor/storage-management/2010/april-2010/consider-compression.html , Ocarina was mentioned along with some other vendors who have offerings that provide either dedupe or compression for primary storage. Ocarina is characterized as being a post-process solution. This is a theme that we’ve seen in several product review pieces, and it’s worth clarifying. [...]
Ocarina Adds Video Optimization to Its List of 900 File Types
Here is our official announcement on our ability to reduce more than 900 file types Ocarina Adds Video Optimization to Its List of 900 File Types Supported by Content-Aware Storage Solution Company’s Native File Optimization delivers best possible file compression while preserving video quality, retaining native file format SAN JOSE, Calif., Apr 07, 2010 — Ocarina [...]
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The impending storage crunch
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- Tiered Storage – A Virtual Future
- Tech Field Day – The Home Stretch
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Who’s Really Melting the Ice Cap?
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Ocarina Goes To Hollywood
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Announcing the DR4000 backup-to-disk appliance
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Sharing Our Storage Vision
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Dedupe & Compression for Long-Term Archival?
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Dell Day 2
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Dell to Work with OEMs
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InformationWeek Shows Strong Dedupe and Compression Demand
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- Passing along what we learned from OEMs
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