The Talk of the Town

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 this post. In fact, if you’re worried about missing something, I suggest you subscribe to the Online Storage Optimization news feed by clicking the RSS symbol above.

New addition: Paul Shread, Enterprise Storage Forum – HP Sees Opportunity in Data Deduplication

Chris Mellor, The Register (UK)  — HP Makes Ocarina Music

As Chris puts it: “Ocarina has similar partnerships with BlueArc, EMC and Isilon. It looks almost inevitable that every other filer supplier must be looking at the Ocarina product and thinking a reseller deal might be a good idea. Otherwise, it could lose sales to the competition when a lot of image-type data is being stored.”

Raju Shanbhag, TMCnet – Ocarina Networks’ Ocarina ECOsystem to be Resold by HP

Says Raju: “According to the company, this solution has the intelligence to extract and analyze the component parts of virtually any file … As the amount of information companies produce on a daily basis are increasing phenomenally, companies are looking for highly scalable storage solutions that efficiently and cost-effectively manage these volumes.“