Tag Archives: Hollywood storage

Ocarina: The Movie

by Sunshine on August 21, 2009 in Ocarina, capacity optimization

As many people know, Ocarina Networks has been living up to its name lately. It really is becoming a “network”-oriented company, inking partnerships with just about all of the top storage vendors–HP, BlueArc, Isilon, and so on and so forth. This is great news for storage customers, who can now depend on the very best [...]

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Moving Pictures – An Interview With Animator Michael Zachary Huber

Moving Pictures – An Interview With Animator Michael Zachary Huber

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

A few of the Ocarina crew recently returned from Siggraph2009, the 36th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Held in New Orleans the week of August 3-7, the event drew participants from around the world. We were newbies to the event, and so decided get some perspective from an industry veteran, [...]

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Media Giants Go Miniature With Data

Media Giants Go Miniature With Data

by Sunshine on August 5, 2009 in Ocarina

Today was a great day for Ocarina. Not only are we attending SIGGRAPH2009, the premiere event for graphics artists and movie animators, but we also announced two major customers in that realm, Rainmaker Entertainment and Zoic Studios. Both are finding that they’re able to achieve 80% reductions in data as a result of deploying our [...]

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Getting Animated at SIGGRAPH

by Sunshine on August 4, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

This week, Ocarina sent a contingent to SIGGRAPH 2009, a conference and exhibition that draws computer graphics, animation, post-production, and imaging specialists from around the globe. Lots of toys to look at, and stories to hear. We are there through the end of this week, spending time in the booths of two of our partners, [...]

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Star Trek, the Next IT Frontier

Star Trek, the Next IT Frontier

by Sunshine on May 11, 2009 in Storage

Star Trek is out in theaters, and the geek world is jumping for joy–not to mention having a little fun with the technology that is and always has been a mainstay of the franchise. There are lessons to be learned from comparing Trek’s capabilities to today’s reality, especially since we stack up pretty well. ChannelWeb’s [...]

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NAB-bing some Announcements

by Sunshine on April 20, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

This week, many of our crew are attending NAB Show, the annual mega-convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas. Why do we need to be there? Well, more and more, the business of making shows and movies has become inextricably linked to the need to store immense files. To add to the [...]

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What We’re Reading

by Sunshine on March 2, 2009 in Storage

Some worthwhile articles and posts out there this past week. Here’s what is on our reading list so far: Don’t Stop Investing in IT – Forbes profile of NetApp CIO Marina Levinson. Spike Lee and Storage – Pete Steege’s Seagate blog post includes a video with Spike Lee and his film editor in which they [...]

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A Q&A With Shmuel Shottan, CTO, BlueArc

A Q&A With Shmuel Shottan, CTO, BlueArc

by Sunshine on February 27, 2009 in Featured, Storage, Storage optimization

The term “deduplication for primary storage” has become the latest industry buzz phrase. Yet, how much do any of us know about it? This week, I sat down with Shmuel Shottan, CTO of BlueArc, and learned a great deal about what makes this emerging technology such a crucial one at this time. I was impressed [...]

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The Storage Oscars and Other News of the Week

by Sunshine on February 24, 2009 in Storage

There is a definite feeling out there that storage blogging is growing. It’s a more connected, social world than ever before in the past, the result being higher quality content. Here are some of the tidbits that jumped out at me this week: Storage Monkeys, relaunched last month (just like this blog!) announced today that [...]

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Ocarina Goes To Hollywood

Ocarina Goes To Hollywood

by Sunshine on February 19, 2009 in Storage, Uncategorized

Here’s something that might surprise you–one of the sectors that has been hit hard by an upsurge in storage demands is movie studios. And while you’re probably imagining that video is the source of their storage woes, in fact this is not the case. As it turns out, video is a relatively small part of [...]

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