Ocarina in the News and Blogosphere

HP's Data Protector software also offers host-based dedupe capabilities, and the company this week announced a reseller agreement with compression and dedupe specialist Ocarina Networks, which also works on image files, for HP's NAS offerings.  [more...]

Now multi-petabyte systems are great when you have zillions of files that need to be stored but so is a multi-petabyte system that is optimized so that in the same space tens of zillions can be contained. This is where Ocarina’s ECOsystem software adds its value to our NAS products. The ECOsystem software transforms your storage with its content-aware storage optimization that compresses data up to 10:1 with added features such as deduplication, ECOsnap snapshots, and its own global name space capability. The unique thing about our reseller partnership is that HP can run the ECOsystem software right on our NAS nodes, further optimizing your infrastructure. Now there aren’t too many storage vendors out there who can talk about that now, are there?  [more...]

As the amount of information companies produce on a daily basis are increasing phenomenally, companies are looking for highly scalable storage solutions that efficiently and cost-effectively manage these volumes. Customers can now look to reduce costs and save time by more efficiently utilizing storage resources with this combined solution from HP and Ocarina. The Ocarina ECOsystem software for HP runs directly on each server node, or performance block, in an HP Scalable NAS cluster.  [more...]

HP and Ocarina say the Ocarina ECOsystem software for HP runs directly on each server node, or performance block, in an HP Scalable NAS cluster. They say the combined offering also allows customers to seamlessly move data from expensive tier 1 storage to more cost-efficient tier 2 storage platforms, such as HP’s ExDS9100, and compress and dedupe the data as it is being stored on tier 2.  [more...]

Data reduction technologies originally deployed for backup are making their way into primary and nearline storage. Cornell University's Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) and e-commerce site Shopzilla are among the early adopters of primary storage data reduction to consolidate their storage and keep up with data growth. Both use compression appliances from startups. Ithaca, N.Y-based Cornell runs Ocarina Networks ECOsystem appliances...  [more...]

Cornell University's Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) began testing Ocarina Network's ECOsystem appliances in January, and found new algorithms geared specifically to files used in life sciences applications delivered 50% compression. Cornell now deploys Ocarina with its S2A9700 disk arrays from DataDirect Networks Inc.  [more...]

My guess is there is too much outside pressure to just be a great primary storage supplier and [NetApp] will need to or want to get better at the secondary storage tier. If so do so by investing in secondary storage internally with just a little external help. What they have works fine but obviously it is not where they want it to be. They could invest additional development dollars in Open Systems SnapVault (OSSV) and their various dedupe technologies, make a few small purchases to get them there faster; Ocarina, Permabit, Exagrid or Sepaton and maybe even SyncSort who makes an excellent block level incremental backup solution similar to what OSSV does.  [more...]

Certain data types can be reduced in size using storage optimization, deduplication, and compression tools. Look at Ocarina Networks' Optimizer, for example.  [more...]

Chris Mellor of The Register shares some outside-of-the-box thinking on the potential of Ocarina's technology, noting that, "Ocarina dedupes/compresses image files like no other product ..."  [more...]

For example companies like Storwize and Ocarina Networks can significantly reduce the size of the unstructured data store. These technologies work either in-line or as a post process to compress and/or deduplicate primary storage by as much as 90% or more. This type of reduction can not only delay the need for additional storage this year, it could delay the need for several years, showing a positive gain on future budgets.  [more...]