Expert Buzz

Eric Burgener, Taneja Group analyst

It's Time for Primary Storage Optimization "Targeted for use with IP storage, Ocarina Networks is the only vendor to date offering format-aware optimization against primary storage. Although some SSO vendors have claimed that application-specific approaches to capacity optimization are not effective, this tends to be relevant only for inline capacity optimization. Format-aware capacity optimization takes more CPU cycles and does take slightly longer, but does not present performance issues when used by out-of-band approaches." [more...]

Andrew Reichman, Forrester Research analyst

Startup Ocarina Networks Proposes Ground Breaking Data Footprint Reduction "…if they can deliver what they promise, this could dramatically shake up the enterprise data storage world and move the industry along the path to keeping up with the astonishing but widely accepted forecasts for growth of file data.”
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