One of the vendors that really caught my eye at the recent Gesalt IT Field Day was Ocarina Networks. The reason for this was that before attending the session with Ocarina I knew very little about the inner workings of data compression and de-duplication, at least no-where near the level that I was about to find out. The area of unstructured de-duplication and compression isn’t an area I’ve really thought about too much before as none of companies I have worked for so far have ever had a serious requirement for such functionality outside of email and email archival de-duplication.

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