Chris Mellor writes in The Register about Ocarina's announcement of embeddable dedupe technologies being available for OEMs.

"Why should OEMs and customers be interested? Data should stay compressed and deduplicated all the way through its lifecycle and only get rehydrated when it is accessed. This approach is better than the point products seen today with separate dedupe code bases and excess use of network bandwidth: That's a waste of resources.

Ocarina has talked about this to its existing OEM partners BlueArc, HDS and HP, and other potential customers. It has already signed a deal with one OEM and has another six in its pipeline. We may have OEM announcements this year or next, but they might not identify Ocarina as a source for their dedupe code."



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