Ocarina in the News and Blogosphere

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...]

A new partnership with data compression startup Ocarina Networks means Isilon users can use Ocarina’s ECOsystem appliances to reduce the amount of data on the archival tier. [more...]

Seeking to maximize the storage capacity of its life science research data, the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) has partnered with Ocarina Networks, an online storage optimization solution provider, to compress and store its next-generation data sets.  [more...]

To prepare for data demands, Cornell is performing extensive data compression testing across a wide range of research applications using the Ocarina Networks ECOsystem, which reads stored files and uses content-aware compression and deduplication to reduce the amount of space occupied by those files.  [more...]

Ocarina Networks said Wednesday it closed a second round of funding with $20 million. San Jose-based Ocarina said the round was led by Palo Alto-based JAFCO Ventures. Also participating were first-round funders Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners, which both have offices in Menlo Park.  [more...]

Ocarina Networks, maker of software that compresses content to reduce online storage demands, announced today that it has brought in $20 million in a second round of funding to beef up its sales force, refine its technology and forge more partnerships with storage providers like Hewlett-Packard and BlueArc. - Camille Ricketts  [more...]

The incredible shrinking economy may not be creating much in the way of jobs, profits or consumer confidence, but it’s doing a bang-up job of producing data. The Information Age is nothing if not a volcanic profusion of digitized documents, photographs and video — not to mention the data emerging from the genomics industry and other deeply scientific pursuits. All of which helps explain why a 2-year-old San Jose startup called Ocarina Networks on Wednesday announced that it had secured $20 million in second-round funding as it bring its storage optimization technologies to a marketplace where consumers have come to think that data storage is virtually free. (Think of your e-mail files.) - Scott Duke Harris  [more...]

The Deal covers the closing of Ocarina’s series B round of funding, highlighting the company’s unique position in offering online storage optimization technology and referencing lead investor and new Ocarina Board Member, Joe Horowitz of JAFCO Ventures - Mary Kathleen Flynn [more...]

Ocarina Networks in San Jose raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Jafco Ventures. Ocarina’s technology makes online storage more efficient. - Deborah Gage  [more...]

VentureWire reports on Ocarina’s recent successful round of funding and differentiates the company from one of its biggest competitors, NetApp. The article also reports Jafco Ventures led the round of funding and that existing investors, Highland Capital Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, also contributed significantly. - Scott Denne [more...]