An interesting day today in that there isn’t too much in the way of hard news, but plenty o’ commentary floating around the old blog-o-tweet-o-news-o-sphere regarding storage.
First, lots of buzz about Ocarina this past week:
We earned a nice mention in the keynote address at BIO IT World, where Ocarina is in attendance and was a “best in show” finalist. Things are going extremely well there, so stay tuned!
Dedupe Team Up: A post by George Crump of Storage Switzerland on InformationWeek that shows how Ocarina is working with major storage vendors to help them compete with NetApp on dedupe.
NetApp’s Dr. Dedupe questions Ocarina about whether it is doing dedupe in this post “When is Dedupe Not Dedupe?” Kind of an odd one–as W. Curtis Preston points out in the comments field, the “Technology” pages on the Ocarina web site–particularly this one which breaks down the Ocarina ECOsystem process–answer his question. I’d also suggest he read this recent post which was actually in response to another NetApp blogger, Alex McDonald.
Another mention of Ocarina and its recent BlueArc partnership announcement in Wikibon’s Bill Mottram’s summary of the scene at NAB last week. He writes:
“BlueArc: The news on the BlueArc booth was the announcement (April 20th) of their partnership with Ocarina. Availability of the Ocarina Optimizer for BlueArc is scheduled for mid-May.”
And in other news…
InfoStor’s Dave Simpson comments on the Oracle-Sun acqui with some thoughtful insights on his newly revved up blog.
Devang Panchigar has a nice round-up and some commentary on EMC’s recent V-Max announcement on Gestalt IT/Storagenerve.
And, as widely reported, EMC has asked its employees to take an across the board pay cut. And, with the kind of speed we’ve come to associate with blogging, EMCer Storagezilla posted on the 5% cut on his blog right after the announcement was made public.
Happy Tuesday everyone!
