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The Year in Images

The Year in Images

by Sunshine on December 30, 2009 in Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

This past year, we at Online Storage Op gathered all manner of images to illustrate our posts. So as a way of looking back at 2009, here are some of the ones we liked the best–and the stories that went with them: Holodeck fun: In February, Robin Harris at StorageMojo wrote about a potential breakthrough [...]

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A Breakthrough for the Petabyte Age

A Breakthrough for the Petabyte Age

by Sunshine on April 3, 2009 in Storage

A story in Wired caught my eye today–at Cornell University, a computer has discovered a law of physics on its own. Without any prior knowledge of physics or geometry, the machine was able to extrapolate the laws of motion by analyzing a pendulum’s swings. Contributor Brandon Keim writes: “The research is being heralded as a [...]

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Storage News & Views – Week of March 9

by Sunshine on March 10, 2009 in Storage, capacity optimization

It’s only Tuesday, and already it’s been a jam packed week. Ocarina’s partnership with Isilon Systems was a big news item for this blog. For those who don’t follow the blow by blows, Isilon announced a new integrated nearline archive solution combining Isilon’s new 36NL and Ocarina’s ECOsystem storage optimization software. Chris Mellor’s piece in [...]

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Ocarina Raises $20 Million

by Sunshine on February 25, 2009 in Featured, File Systems, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Today, Ocarina Networks announced that it closed a $20 million Series B funding round. This is obviously great news for the company, as well as a strong validation of what the Ocarina set out to accomplish. The funding round was led by Jafco Ventures, with significant participation from Series A investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & [...]

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VCs Back Cost Savings

VCs Back Cost Savings

by Sunshine on February 10, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization

In the new economic climate a mantra is going around venture capital circles–”save customers money.” Most of us in the valley are already aware of this trend and have been for some time. It certainly sums up Ocarina’s mission in a neat little nutshell. Today, the New York Times Bits blog reported on a talk [...]

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Compression – A Matter of Life and Death

Compression – A Matter of Life and Death

by Sunshine on February 9, 2009 in Featured, Storage

Nice piece today in Bioinform about our compression solution for genomics data. Carter George of Ocarina spoke to the author of the piece, Vivien Marx, last week, as did Dave Lifka at Cornell. The article details the work we’re doing with Cornell University’s Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) in partnership with DataDirect to increase their [...]

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Solving Cornell’s Storage Problems

by Mike Davis on February 5, 2009 in Featured, Storage

Great news for Ocarina Networks today — we’re working with the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) and DataDirect Networks (DDN) to perform extensive data compression testing on a diverse array of research applications. The goal here is address a problem they (and so many other research institutions) are facing — the exponential growth of [...]

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