Ocarina in the News and Blogosphere

Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at Hopkinton, MA-based Taneja Group, maintains that it takes a different technology to deduplicate primary data than secondary data, and argues that compression technologies from startups [like] Ocarina Networks…are better suited for primary data. - Dave Raffo  [more...]

This article highlights how Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale approached building Ocarina as a solution by meeting a need. Click here to read part two of this posting.  [more...]

This article profiles Ocarina’s CEO Murli Thirumale. It highlights his entrepreneurial spirit, work ethic and approach, and how his experience and work in the past led to the inception of Ocarina.  [more...]

De-duplication is common for backup data but not primary storage, says analyst Arun Taneja. Ocarina says it can reduce storage needs by a factor of 10. That's a ratio "any IT shop will kill for" on primary storage, "because it's the most expensive storage," Taneja says.  [more...]

Carter George discusses Ocarina Networks' storage optimization products on InformationWeek's Startup City video series.  [more...]

Carter George notes that, "... storage optimization is the key technology for utilization of the space needed for data storage. By using this technology, users can shrink existing files by as much as 90%, thus enabling the storage of up to 10 times more data on disks already owned by the enterprise."  [more...]

”[Ocarina] has developed an appliance that first decompresses all the files that have been compressed using a storage vendor's algorithm and then compresses them again using an algorithm developed by Ocarina to store those files more efficiently on the existing storage arrays. As part of the effort, the Ocarina software can also detect similarities in, for example PowerPoint presentations, so it needs to save fewer versions of the various PowerPoint presentations because in actual reality the different versions have only minor differences that Ocarina can detect.” – Michael Vizard  [more...]

Storage: Virtualization and Optimization

Using a method it calls ECO—extract, correlate and optimize—Ocarina reads files from storage, decompresses them down to their raw information, looks for similarities, then squeezes out the redundancies, according to George.

”New player Ocarina Networks seeks to provide compression specifically for the data already in your online storage media. Their two products--the Ocarina Optimizer and Ocarina Reader--work together to both optimize the existing data regardless of storage media or vendor as well as provide real-time access to that data, for both users and applications, after it has been compressed.”  [more...]

“Storage industry newcomer Ocarina Networks announced the availability of a new product that employs a unique take on data de-duplication—sort of. The company's online storage optimization solution applies techniques similar to data compression and de-duplication to online production data, resulting in up to a 10x reduction in capacity, according to company officials.” – Kevin Komiega [more...]