Ocarina Networks presented to us during the Day 2 morning session of the GestaltIT Tech Field Day. Their presentation was a deep dive into storage compression and optimization. Read the entire post.
The cost of storage is part of doing business whether it’s in the post production facility or the visual effects studio. Rainmaker Entertainment and Zoic Studios both took a step to reduce those costs by adding Ocarina Networks‘ ECOsystem.
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. Read the entire article.
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.
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.
While either [NetApp or EMC] will want to tell you that it is going to roll [Data Domain's] technology into primary storage, look for something that is working right now, like Ocarina Networks... Read the entire article.
[Data Domain] has a strong line of products which it has sold vigorously, but with two perceived weaknesses. So far it has no answer to Ocarina's content-aware compression, the ability to dedupe graphic images and videos such as JPEG and MPEG files that traditional dedupe can't touch.
Ocarina Optimized allows the industry's leading NAS providers to integrate and embed the Ocarina solution directly inside their own platforms, delivering up to 90% storage capacity improvements and 3-5 times better results than NetApp dedupe. Read the entire article.
NAS suppliers like BlueArc, Isilon and HP are partnering with Ocarina Networks and others to be able to deliver deduplication capabilities to their storage systems.
The company also announced a partnership to make data reductions capabilities from Ocarina Networks available. Ocarina compresses and de-duplicates a wide variety of files. It will be available on all three systems but will mostly be used on NL archiving systems. [more...]
