Ocarina in the News and Blogosphere

Storage optimization is the emerging technology that CIOs need in order to cost-effectively deal with the mountains of data that enterprises store over long periods of time. - Allan Leinwand  [more...]

"David Lifka, director of the CAC and adjunct associate professor of computing and information science at Cornell, and his colleagues were targeting $1,000 per terabyte per year, including maintenance, for the system, which they plan to upgrade in three years. "Now with the Ocarina solution, it seems likely it won't be unusual for a researcher to get potentially up to 2 terabytes because of the compression rates for $1,000 per year," he said. "That's pretty compelling because you can be as cheap as the USB drives you can plug into your laptop with all the great performance and availability and characteristics." - Vivien Marx  [more...]

"As part of this archive move, it is an ideal time to optimize this data via compression and deduplication to reduce the amount of disk capacity that it consumes on the archive, as well as freeing up primary storage," says Carter George, vice president of products at Ocarina Networks (www.ocarinanetworks.com). "The result is a cost reduction in three critical areas: reduction in primary storage, reduction in backup storage, and reduction in secondary or archive storage." - George Crump  [more...]

This article highlights Ocarina’s position in the primary storage optimization category, noting that it has the only content-aware compression solution on the market today. - Eric Burgener [more...]

"...Vendors offering compression techniques, such as Ocarina Networks, "have figured out how to reverse-engineer giant files and look for redundancies," says [Gartner analyst David] Russell." - Alan Earls  [more...]

“…[Eric] Burgener cites Ocarina Networks as "the most application-specific player on the primary side," with, as of late September, 112 different algorithms — or 112 different file types that its Ocarina ECO System could identify, including TIFF, MPEG, Word, and PPT files. "They've actually got an algorithm that's specific to each one of those," he said. "So if you're dealing with, say, pictures, or an online photo database, Ocarina [with its post-processing approach] is a pretty good fit for that — and why Kodak chose them, because these algorithms give them higher data reduction ratios than you could get out of a more generic technology like, for instance, what Storwize is using against that particular data set." - Jennifer Schiff  [more...]

"Now for the twist: … Ocarina Networks, two competing compression vendors, have rejiggered the LZ algorithm so that compression technology can be used in "those scenarios where performance matters," says [Arun] Taneja [founder and consulting analyst at the Taneja Group] not just for backup data." - Ellen O'Brien  [more...]

Ocarina is highlighted in an overview of the primary storage compression/deduplication market. The article outlines the capabilities of the Ocarina Optimizer and the Ocarina Reader listing new product features and Ocarina’s recent partnerships with HP and BlueArc.  [more...]

"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  [more...]

This article highlights Ocarina as one three companies ready to take on the storage scene.  [more...]