Tag Archives: dedupe for primary

All good things…

by Sunshine on March 31, 2010 in Ocarina, Storage

Today is a bit of a sad day for me, as this will be my last post on Online Storage Optimization. For those who are just joining us, I’ve been the regular “newsy” blogger on this site. It’s never been a traditional setup. I’m not an employee of this blog’s parent, Ocarina Networks. Rather, I’m [...]

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Compression and Dedupe like Oil & Water?

by Mike Davis on March 31, 2010 in Uncategorized

Ocarina customer Imagination Technology got some good press the other day in a SearchStorage article reviewing solutions for primary storage optimization. Imagination based Northwest of London provides key pieces of semiconductor IP that are in just about every smart phone out there, and they used Ocarina to double their storage in the same datacenter footprint. [...]

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Happy New Year

by Sunshine on December 29, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, green IT

Tis the week for the “out of office” email messages. But the storage blogo-tweet-osphere waits for no man. Here are a few posts that caught my eye this week. Bas Raayman sees CPU power hitting the wall: The RAM per CPU wall Rick Vanover says 2010 could be the year for 10GigE – Will 2010 [...]

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Bring Out Your Data – The Deets

by Sunshine on November 4, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Lots of speculation this past week in the storage tweet-o-blog-0sphere around our “Bring Out Your Data” Challenge for Tech Field Day. We can’t wait to see what these smart and savvy participants bring us, and we’re confident about the results. There will be prizes awarded for those who stymie us and those who get the [...]

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Dedupe Misconceptions

by Carter George on October 20, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization

As most in the industry are aware, dedupe has becoming a standard offering from every major vendor. Dedupe for primary has become the technology of the moment, and for good reason–the rising tide of unstructured data is forcing data centers worldwide to rethink capacity planning, tiering, and storage efficiency. But there are still a few [...]

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End to End Dedupe

by Goutham Rao on October 14, 2009 in Featured

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 [...]

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Dedupe for Primary–Everyone’s Talkin’

by Carter George on October 7, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Uncategorized, green IT

It’s very interesting to write for a blog that is focused on a specific topic–in our case, dedupe for primary–and then suddenly see the whole world wake up to the reality of it all at once. There has been quite the pile-on in the storage blogosphere of late. So, what has been said so far? [...]

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The Dedupe Race

The Dedupe Race

by Sunshine on August 14, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

The storage press has sniffed out a good story recently. Today, Beth Pariseau has a piece up on her Storage Soup blog that hones in on the drama surrounding the technology du jour–deduplication. The post, “HP to EMC/Data Domain: Bring it On” has a headline that’s reminiscent of the sort of fighting words we heard [...]

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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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EMC Dedupe – Beyond Data Domain

by Mike Davis on July 27, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

With all the talk about the Data Domain acquisition, there less attention paid to EMC’s native de-dupe features in Celerra, not to mention its other related partnerships, such as with Ocarina for optimization of vertical applications. Last week I had the privilege of attending a webinar, “Surviving the Data Explosion through Data Reduction” with John [...]

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