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Announcing the DR4000 backup-to-disk appliance

Announcing the DR4000 backup-to-disk appliance

by Mike Davis on January 13, 2012 in Storage

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?

Dedupe & Compression for Long-Term Archival?

by Mike Davis on October 1, 2010 in Storage, Storage optimization, Uncategorized

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, [...]

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The best is yet to come

by Sunshine on July 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

For almost exactly a year, I had the privilege of being a blogger for this site, Online Storage Optimization. It was one of the most fulfilling collaborations of my professional life. When I heard the news yesterday that Dell would be acquiring Ocarina Networks, my first reaction was pride. I couldn’t help but give myself [...]

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Passing along what we learned from OEMs

by Mike Davis on July 18, 2010 in Uncategorized

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 [...]

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Dedupe Or Compression? Both! Optimization or Performance? Both!

by Carter George on June 8, 2010 in Analyst, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

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 [...]

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Protecting Compressed Data and Reducing Costs

by Carter George on May 25, 2010 in Ocarina, Storage optimization

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 [...]

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One More Time: In-Band Versus Post-Process

by Carter George on April 23, 2010 in Uncategorized

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, [...]

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Words of Wisdom: Let’s get Organized

by Carter George on April 22, 2010 in Uncategorized

Let’s Organize This Discussion A Bit! I think there are at least three interesting topics you bring up here that are worth exploring further. Please see the recent post by David Vellante on Dedupe Rates Matter…Just Not as Much as You Think I’ll respond with a separate post on each of the following topics, so [...]

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Deduplication: From Point Solution to Data Center Strategy

by Carter George on April 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

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 [...]

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Our Thoughts on Performance and Recent Dedupe/Compression Comments

by Carter George on April 16, 2010 in Uncategorized

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. [...]

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