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If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution

by Sunshine on August 10, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

One question that we hear repeatedly about storage is why isn’t efficient enough? In today’s economy, reducing storage costs is a top priority. Yet, it can be confusing to navigate through every vendor’s pitch and figure out what will truly save you on storage now and in the long term. In thinking this through, I [...]

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Storage News and Views – June 17

by Sunshine on June 17, 2009 in Storage

Summer is almost here, and despite rumors of a recession, the malls are filling up with shoppers seeking bathing suits, sunblock, iPhones, and other de rigueur gear of the season. Here in storage land, the latest industry news continues to amaze, amuse and baffle. Here are a few headlines that caught our eyes: Data Domain [...]

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The Dedupe Wars

by Carter George on April 30, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

At Ocarina, we’re having a great deal of success these days with partnerships, and the buzz around this is being seen in the storage press and beyond. What has happened in part is that now that NetApp has made dedupe table stakes, we are the dance partner that many vendors are turning to, as we [...]

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Four Key Trends To Cut Storage Costs

Four Key Trends To Cut Storage Costs

by Sunshine on March 17, 2009 in Featured, Storage, capacity optimization

The economy may be tanking, but that hasn’t translated to companies generating less data. On the contrary, data growth continues apace. And while some say this shouldn’t be shocking news, we at least believe that it doesn’t have to be all bad news. In a Webcast with SearchStorage, Carter George, VP products at Ocarina and [...]

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Where is Atlas?

Where is Atlas?

by Carter George on March 13, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

For those who follow the storage news, Riverbed, known mainly for its Steelhead WAN appliance, is getting into the dedupe for primary game with its upcoming Atlas product, which has been delayed for release until 2010. I’m disappointed to see this delayed, because this market is going crazy in 2009, and the more credible entrants [...]

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The Buzz About Woz

by Sunshine on March 3, 2009 in Storage

He may be dancing with the stars, but Steve Wozniak’s storage company is in the news again today. Fusion-io, of which Woz is now chief scientist, has announced an OEM deal with HP. This follows the recent disclosure that Michael Dell was an early investor in the solid state vendor, whose ioDrive Gizmodo has called [...]

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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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Ocarina Raises $20 Million

by Sunshine on February 25, 2009 in Featured, File Systems, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Today, Ocarina Networks announced that it closed a $20 million Series B funding round. This is obviously great news for the company, as well as a strong validation of what the Ocarina set out to accomplish. The funding round was led by Jafco Ventures, with significant participation from Series A investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & [...]

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What We’re Reading

by Sunshine on February 11, 2009 in Storage

InformationWeek had some smart pieces this week that are worth checking out. In both of these articles, there is food for thought for the storage industry. First, this piece by Charles Babcock on Russ Daniels, CTO of HP and his view of the future of cloud computing: HP On the Cloud: “The World is Cleaving [...]

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The New Storage Cost Metric: Petabytes/Admin

by Mike Davis on May 13, 2008 in Storage

Some Thoughts on HP’s New Massively Scalable NAS Last week HP announced a new massively scalable NAS solution they called Extreme Storage (ExDS) As Judy Mottl at InternetNews.com notes, HP’s offering is interesting in several ways, including a very aggressive list price of under $2 per Gigabyte, and the fact that performance and amount of [...]

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