Tag Archives: Isilon

Punk’d in the Data Center

by Sunshine on February 26, 2010 in Storage

Isilon Systems had some fun with this video. It’s definitely been making the rounds on Twitter. And so we thought, why not post it on our site and grab some of the fun? So for those who have yet to watch it, here’s a little weekend magic for your enjoyment.

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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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Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

by Sunshine on December 7, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization, cloud

It’s been a tough year — a worldwide recession, a sluggish housing market, rising unemployment … and on top of all that, the tarnished image of one of sports’ most squeaky clean players. Well, actually, there have been some bright spots. As DCIG blogger and storage analyst Jerome Wendt notes while looking back at the [...]

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VMWorld Turnout – A Sign of Recovery?

by Sunshine on September 2, 2009 in Uncategorized

VMWorld is in full swing in San Francisco this week, and attendance has gone far beyond all predictions. I’ve heard a number of estimates, ranging from 12,000-15,000. In any case, the attendance has blown away their original prediction of 8,000-10,000. Seems there were a lot of last-minute registrees. The downside of this is that the [...]

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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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The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town

by Sunshine on August 11, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

As I mentioned in a blog post yesterday, the media is beginning to swoop down and take note of yesterday’s announcement that HP is now an official reseller of Ocarina. It’s pretty darn big news. Here are some of the better articles that have appeared. I’ll add more as they come in, so keep rechecking [...]

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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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Why Dedupe? It’s the Economy, Stupid

by Sunshine on June 19, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

Beth Pariseau at TechTarget has an interesting article this week about how a combination of storage tiering and dedupe are just right in these recessionary times. It talks in some depth about Ocarina‘s deployment at Rainmaker Entertainment on BlueArc and Isilon. The article is worth a read all the way through, as it gives some [...]

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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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A Q&A With Brad Winett of Isilon Systems

A Q&A With Brad Winett of Isilon Systems

by Sunshine on April 15, 2009 in Featured, Storage

Ask any system administrator what he or she really wants, and the answer will most likely come down to two things: simplicity and efficiency. The irony, however, is that just about every advance in one of these areas leads to problems in the other. For example, server virtualization has led to inefficiencies on the storage [...]

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