"Storwize and Ocarina technically do compression and not data dedupe, although that distinction isn't always made from a marketing standpoint. Ocarina has taken to calling its product primary data deduplication instead of compression or capacity optimization. "Dedupe for primary storage wasn't our first choice for a working description, but that's what everybody's calling it," says Carter George, Ocarina vice president of products." - Dave Raffo
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