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Ocarina Networks Partners With Hitachi Data Systems to Help Customers Dramatically Reduce Costs via Capacity Optimized Storage
Ocarina Joins the Hitachi Data Systems Technical Alliance Partner Program Combination of Hitachi High-Performance NAS Platform and Ocarina's Content-Aware Compression and Deduplication Helps Cost-Effectively Increase Storage Capacity
| Source: Ocarina
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - April 20, 2009) - Ocarina Networks today announced that it has
joined the Hitachi Data Systems Technical Alliance Partner (TAP) ISV
Program. The program is designed to offer its partners comprehensive
interoperability testing and validation certification with Hitachi's
industry-leading storage solutions.
As part of the partnership, the Hitachi High-Performance NAS platform is
now "Ocarina Optimized," providing a way for customers to keep pace with
massive data growth and related requirements by cost-effectively increasing
the capacity of new and installed storage systems.
Together with Hitachi Data Systems, Ocarina can now provide customers with
the best data reduction solution for online storage, offering up to 90
percent more space for online data and delivering results 3-5 times better
than NetApp dedupe.
Ocarina's patented three-step ECOsystem -- Extract, Correlate and Optimize
-- is the world's first content-aware optimization technology to deliver up
to a 10-to-1 reduction in the size of files, such as MS Office documents,
PDFs, ZIPs, and rich media, that are driving the growth of online storage.
"Hitachi Data Systems customers today need a way to stretch their IT
storage dollars to support the phenomenal growth of unstructured data,"
said Asim Zaheer, vice president of product and competitive marketing,
Hitachi Data Systems. "Ocarina's content optimization technology for NAS
systems complements Hitachi Data Systems' vision by addressing this need,
while providing improved storage efficiency and utilization."
"Hitachi Data Systems is among the many industry heavyweights to pick
Ocarina to make content-aware dedupe for online storage a reality for
existing NAS platforms," said Dave Withers, vice president of strategic
markets and business development, Ocarina Networks. "Our industry-leading
solutions are fast becoming a requirement for vendors seeking to respond to
market demands for optimized storage which reduces capital and operational
storage costs."
Generic compression and block dedupe solutions are unable to address the
main drivers of storage growth: unstructured data such as email, photos,
video, Microsoft Office, as well as industry-specific file types for
energy, media, life sciences, medical and genomics. While only a portion of
this data is accessed on a regular basis, it is becoming increasingly
important to keep all data online and accessible 24/7. As a result, storage
optimization is now a must-have feature for online file-based storage.
About Ocarina
Ocarina is a leader in online storage optimization solutions. Organizations
of all sizes use Ocarina's content-aware optimization technology to reduce
their storage footprint and achieve a ten-fold capacity increase on their
current storage systems. Based in San Jose, Calif., Ocarina is
privately-held and financed by leading investors JAFCO Ventures, Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners. For more
information, visit www.ocarinanetworks.com.