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Ocarina Networks Partners With Cornell and DataDirect Networks on Storage Optimization
| Source: Ocarina
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - February 5, 2009) - Ocarina
Networks, the leader in content-aware compression and dedupe for online
storage, has partnered with the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC)
and DataDirect Networks (DDN), the data infrastructure provider for the
most extreme, content-intensive environments in the world, to advance the
state of lossless data reduction and storage optimization.
"As scientific researchers acquire data at faster and faster rates,
optimizing the analysis of that data with scalable storage solutions is
essential," said Dr. David Lifka, Cornell CAC director. "Despite advances
in disk technology, storing research data remains an expensive
proposition," he explained. "We are working with Ocarina and DDN to
effectively maximize storage capacity without sacrificing performance."
Data production rates from telescopes, satellites, surveys, and other
scientific instruments are exploding. "In the life sciences, next
generation sequencing techniques are producing vast quantities of data that
must be quickly processed and stored online for short periods of time,"
said Dr. Jaroslaw Pillardy, a senior researcher at Cornell's Computational
Biology Service Unit. "For example," noted Pillardy, "one Solexa sequencing
run produces .05 terabytes of raw data, and a single sequencer may be used
multiple times per week." Pillardy expects that new sequencing techniques
will soon generate data at a rate of 0.1 terabyte per hour.
To prepare for these data demands, Cornell is performing extensive data
compression testing across a wide range of research applications using the
Ocarina ECOSystem. The ECOSystem reads stored files and uses content-aware
compression and deduplication to reduce the amount of space those files
take. It includes multiple data compressors for the types of files commonly
found in research computing environments and includes over 100 algorithms
that support 600 file types. Testing is occurring on DDN's S2A9700 high
performance storage platform deployed at Cornell. The S2A™ (Silicon
Storage Architecture™) technology provides extreme performance and
storage capacity, with the ability to manage up to 1.2 petabytes in only
two floor tiles and deliver sustained throughput of up to 6 gigabytes per
second for both writes and reads, per appliance.
"Ocarina is very pleased to be collaborating with Cornell and DDN," said
Goutham Rao, Ocarina's CTO. "Cornell's breadth of science and engineering
applications, their focus on utility, and expertise in data analysis makes
them an ideal partner for this project."
"New breakthroughs in content-aware compression and deduplication are
making it possible for data sets to be reduced soon after they come off
scientific instruments and have been analyzed," explained Lifka.
"Compression technologies with efficient algorithms are becoming an
essential component in data-intensive computing system deployments," he
added. "Space savings of 50% and above are common."
"New data reduction technologies hold great promise for helping to get the
most out of storage systems and reducing overall operating expenses," said
Dave Fellinger, CTO, DDN. "DDN's S2A storage systems have always provided
significant manageability, rack space, power consumption, and capacity
benefits and now, in combination with Ocarina Networks, we are able to
bring a new level of efficiency to the data center."
The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing receives support from the Cornell
University, the National Science Foundation, DOD, USDA, and members of its
corporate program. For more information, visit www.cac.cornell.edu.
About Ocarina
Ocarina is a leader in online storage optimization solutions. Organizations
of all sizes use Ocarina's file-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 DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) is the data infrastructure provider for the
most extreme, content-intensive environments in the world -- including the
largest online gaming and music sites, social networking applications
developers, photo and video sharing services, high performance computing
environments, and more than 400 broadcast and post-production facilities
around the globe. With more than 180 petabytes installed worldwide, the
company's S2A™ (Silicon Storage Architecture™) technology delivers
massive throughput, scalable capacity, consistency, efficiency and data
integrity for today's extremely competitive and evolving markets. Founded
in 1998, DDN serves customers through its global partnerships with Dell,
IBM, Sony and other industry leaders; and through its offices in Europe,
India, Asia Pacific, Japan and throughout the U.S. For more information, go
to ddn.com or call +1-800-TERABYTE (837-2298).