Ed Note: We hope you enjoy this guest post from Goutham Rao, CTO, Ocarina Networks, a panelist at SNW this week on the topic of “Primary Storage: The New Frontier for Data Deduplication.” This offers a more detailed and nuanced look at the topics discussed on the panel. If you’re like many in the storage [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Deduplication – A Hot Topic
by Sunshine on June 11, 2009 in Ocarina, green IT
In the wake of the news that EMC and NetApp are bidding close to $2 billion (yes, you heard that right, billion) for backup deduplication specialist Data Domain, a whole lot of people are starting to ask, “just what is this deduplication stuff anyway?” On this very blog, readers are clicking on the “Deduplication” tag [...]
Got Ocarina?
by Carter George on May 26, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization
With so much talk about dedupe lately, it’s hard to know which aspect of it to discuss first. We’ll begin by addressing a question we occasionally hear–most recently from a comment on this very blog. The question can be summed up as: why someone would pay an extra amount for a solution such as Ocarina, [...]
Dedupe Ramp-Up
by Sunshine on May 6, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage optimization, capacity optimization
Big announcement today from Ocarina about our newest product release, Ocarina 3.0. At this point, there’s no question that dedupe for primary is one of the hottest topics in storage. Our recent partnership announcements with major vendors were well covered in the storage press, and if anything the excitement around this technology is growing. Update [...]
Our Prediction for the Hottest Storage Category of 2009
by Mike Davis on January 19, 2009 in Storage
And the winner is… dedupe for online When it comes to storage, our market research and experience with customers have led us to the following prediction: dedupe for online storage will emerge as the hottest category of the year in 2009. The current economic climate, coupled with the pace of advancement in cloud storage have [...]
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