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Ocarina Networks, BlueArc Team to Deliver Capacity-Optimized Online Storage
BlueArc Joins Ocarina's ECOsphere Partner Program to Increase Its Storage Disk Capacity With Content-Aware Deduplication and Compression for Primary Storage
| Source: Ocarina Networks
DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - October 15, 2008) - Storage Networking World -- Ocarina Networks today announced
that BlueArc Corporation, the leader in scalable, high-performance unified
network storage, will join the company's ECOsphere partner program,
enabling customers in data-driven vertical markets and enterprises focused
on storage consolidation to optimize their capacity without impacting end
user access or response times.
Ocarina has worked closely with BlueArc to develop a version of its
content-aware compression and deduplication offering for primary storage
for the company's Titan NAS product line. BlueArc customers can now greatly
expand the storage capacity of their primary storage solutions in response
to IT organization's desire to maximize the value of their systems while
reducing operating costs.
Unstructured data, including rich media content, e-mail, and compound
documents such as Microsoft Office and PDF files, pose a problem for inline
compression and sliding block deduplication solutions. Ocarina's
content-aware solution provides unmatched results on these types where
traditional offerings fall short. The Ocarina solution is uniquely equipped
to help companies in a range of industries deal with a massive growth in
data, including digital images and video, image archives for healthcare,
seismic archives for oil and gas, post-production graphics for movie
studios and game developers, as well as the needs of the horizontal
marketplace.
The Ocarina ECOsphere partner program, which BlueArc joins today, allows
storage vendors to certify and integrate the Ocarina solution with their
storage platform to provide a complete capacity-optimized storage solution,
allowing customers to efficiently store huge amounts of file data in a
single namespace on a single storage platform.
The companies' combined solution allows one or more Ocarina appliances to
be used as content-aware compression and dedupe co-processors attached to
the BlueArc Titan storage system, leveraging BlueArc's cross volume link
features to make it possible to create a compressed and deduplicated tier
of storage inside the BlueArc system that is transparently part of their
single namespace.
"The seamless integration of Ocarina for primary deduplication and
compression with Titan enables our customers to reduce their capacity
demands while recognizing world-record performance," said Steve Daheb,
senior vice president of marketing and business development of BlueArc.
"The joint solution helps data-driven customers reduce their costs while
continuing to focus on growing their business."
"BlueArc is known for highest performance network storage. By working
together in partnership, our customers can leverage the industry-leading
performance of BlueArc, while creating a new tier of capacity optimized
storage," said Murli Thirumale, CEO of Ocarina Networks. "BlueArc's focus
on data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment,
Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences, aligns perfectly with the
capabilities of our solutions, making this a logical partnership with real
benefits for end users."
The Ocarina/BlueArc bundle will be available for purchase in Q4 2008.
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 Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers and Highland Capital Partners. For more information, visit
www.ocarinanetworks.com.
About BlueArc
BlueArc is a leading provider of high-performance unified network storage
systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as
electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education,
Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Our products support both
network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN,
services on a converged network storage platform.
We enable companies to expand the ways they explore, discover, research,
create, process and innovate in data-intensive environments. Our products
replace complex and performance-limited products with high performance,
scalable and easy to use systems capable of handling the most data
intensive applications and environments. Further, we believe that our
energy efficient design and our products' ability to consolidate legacy
storage infrastructures, dramatically increases storage utilization rates
and reduces our customers' total cost of ownership. Information about
BlueArc solutions and services can be found at http://www.bluearc.com/.
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