Ocarina in the News and Blogosphere

“As we keep more and more of our valuable content online, do we need a new type of storage? A crop of venture-backed companies — among them Storwize and Ocarina Networks to Gear6 — certainly seems to think so. These companies solve one of two problems: how to access the data faster and how to store it more compactly. “ – Stacey Higginbotham  [more...]

De-duplication has become popular for backup data, but not for primary storage. Now, US start-up company Ocarina Networks wants to change that, with a data reduction technology which it claims can shrink live production data too - even if the file formats are already compressed.” – Bryan Betts  [more...]

“Startup Ocarina Networks has announced its Ocarina Optimizer appliance to shrink photos and other files by a factor of ten, claiming that de-duplication and generic compression products aren't effective on such data ... Think of Ocarina Networks as providing specialised sub-file-level deduplication for picture image files.” – Paul Roberts  [more...]

“Despite all this secrecy, Ocarina nonetheless appears to be gaining some traction…the startup's early adopters include seven of the top 10 online photo sites and three of the top five social networking sites.” - James Rogers  [more...]

“Ocarina Networks has come out of stealth with an appliance that it claims can reduce file size on primary NAS storage, as well as the size of files that have already been compressed using industry-standard algorithms.” – Beth Pariseau  [more...]

Fall is back-to-school time, and we think our latest Top 10 Storage Startups to Watch have a few lessons to teach the storage world. As you'll recall, we instituted this list last year, when memorializing the top private storage networking firms had become an exercise in rehashing the same players over and over again.  [more...]

Fall is nearly here, time to pack up the trent and head back to business. And the time for a fresh take on our Top 10 Storage Startups to watch.  [more...]

We wrote about the growing trend of customers trying to reducing their disk footprint in The End of An Antidote. We also covered this in earlier posts on Driving Down Drives and Drive Reduction. Last week a new startup, Ocarina, emerged to tackle compression.  [more...]

Stealth-mode startup Ocarina Networks is quietly planning to enter the data compression market later this year, joining a growing list of vendors looking to reduce users' storage burden.  [more...]