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Data Deluge – Are you Prepared?

Data Deluge – Are you Prepared?

by Sunshine on December 4, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Uncategorized, capacity optimization

Dell’s Inside Enterprise IT blog has identified “10 Trends to watch carefully.” The post is from the Gartner Data Center conference that wraps up today in Las Vegas. One of the biggest and most important trends? The coming “data deluge” that will pile onto company IT departments like a load of bricks. Over the next [...]

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Techasaurus Rex

by Sunshine on December 2, 2009 in Storage, cloud

Two items jumped out at me this week. First, Francine Hardaway’s post on being an early adopter, “Do You Write in the Cloud?” and second, this New York Times story about Cormac McCarthy’s typewriter. Hardaway, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Stealthmode Partners talks about how she and other bloggers compose their text. Mashable‘s Pete [...]

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Dedupe Deep Dive – Video

by Sunshine on November 25, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

Lots of special treats awaited the participants of Gestalt IT Tech Field Day. While visiting the offices on November 13 Goutham Rao, CTO of Ocarina Networks stood at the whiteboard and offered a deep dive into the technology behind the company. It was a big hit with the participants. For those who would like a [...]

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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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Going Native CIFS

by Carter George on November 2, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, green IT

A recent comment on this blog got me thinking, and this post is the result. The commenter, who identified him or herself only as “Sto Rage” asked: “When can we expect native CIFS support on the Ocarina platforms? The current implementation is outright clunky. So until you have a working CIFS implementation, I don’t think [...]

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Bring Out Your Data

Bring Out Your Data

by Sunshine on October 28, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

For the upcoming Gestalt IT Tech Field Day November 12-13 we’re expecting a contingent of bloggers and other thought leaders to converge on Silicon Valley. When they arrive at the Ocarina Networks offices in San Jose, we won’t just be giving them a demonstration. In fact, we’ll be taking something away from them. In anticipation [...]

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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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Great Minds Think Together

by Carter George on September 25, 2009 in Featured, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

This week, the New York Times Bits blog reported that a winner has been announced in the $1 million Netflix challenge. The prize went to the team that could come up with a better “predictor” of customer behavior than the company’s current in-house software, Cinematch. It’s more than a gimmick. Having a reliable and effective [...]

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