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Compression and Dedupe like Oil & Water?

by Mike Davis on March 31, 2010 in Uncategorized

Ocarina customer Imagination Technology got some good press the other day in a SearchStorage article reviewing solutions for primary storage optimization. Imagination based Northwest of London provides key pieces of semiconductor IP that are in just about every smart phone out there, and they used Ocarina to double their storage in the same datacenter footprint. [...]

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Storage News and Views – March 17

Storage News and Views – March 17

by Sunshine on March 17, 2010 in Storage, Storage optimization

Across the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere today folks are donning green scarves, putting four leaf clovers in their lapels, and generally proclaiming the luck of the Irish. Yes, it’s a good life in storageland. And there’s plenty of news to amuse and bemuse. EMC made a big splash this week with a presentation to analysts by President [...]

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Dedupealooza

by Sunshine on February 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

So much talk about dedupe these days it’s hard to keep up. The industry is waking up to the reality that dedupe is one of the best ways to reduce data, thus saving on power, cooling, space and other crippling storage costs. Some of the more thought provoking posts of late: DCIG – How SSDs [...]

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Storage Trends – Customer is King

Storage Trends – Customer is King

by Sunshine on February 4, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

Last week’s BD Event was more than just a deal making event. It was a chance to learn about new product releases and trend in the storage industry. The big picture: gone are the days when end users had to accept whatever the storage industry handed down to them. Today’s small-to-medium-sized storage operations are all [...]

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The Year in Images

The Year in Images

by Sunshine on December 30, 2009 in Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

This past year, we at Online Storage Op gathered all manner of images to illustrate our posts. So as a way of looking back at 2009, here are some of the ones we liked the best–and the stories that went with them: Holodeck fun: In February, Robin Harris at StorageMojo wrote about a potential breakthrough [...]

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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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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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OEM or Not, Here We Come

by Carter George on October 28, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

In today’s UK Register, Chris Mellor talked with Brian Biles of Data Domain about its plans for global dedupe. In it, Brian says that Ocarina is not “synergistic” with Data Domain. Writes Chris: “Data Domain set out to solve a data protection problem whereas Ocarina set out to solve a media management problem.” He then [...]

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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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