Ocarina ECOsystem 3.0 for Optimized Online Storage Solutions

Ocarina Networks announced the release of the newest version of its online storage optimization solution, Ocarina ECOsystem 3.0. The breakthrough solution delivers up to a ten-fold capacity increase of storage systems from leading vendors and now offers the ability to optimize the broadest range of file formats in the storage industry.

Ocarina ECOsystem 3.0 debuts new functionalities that provide end-to-end, tunable storage optimization, and extends content-aware dedupe and compression to hundreds of file types used across the global 2000 and in dozens of vertical markets. With this release, Ocarina also introduces ‘Ocarina Optimized,’ a new ECOsphere partner program that enables tight integration and deep embedding of Ocarina’s technology with industry leading clustered NAS offerings to deliver the industry’s first truly optimized NAS solutions.

The petabyte era has emerged with organizations in every industry accumulating data at unprecedented rates. Storage optimization in the form of dedupe and compression has become a must-have feature for all forms of online file services, from primary storage, to nearline and archive.

Ocarina Optimized allows the industry’s leading NAS providers to integrate and embed the Ocarina solution directly inside their own platforms, delivering up to 90% storage capacity improvements and 3-5 times better results than NetApp dedupe.

Ocarina Optimized enables deep integration inside multiple file storage solutions, such that each vendor receives a unique adaptation of the Ocarina solution specifically designed to take advantage of their architectural strengths, file system interfaces, and performance profile.

New to Ocarina ECOsystem 3.0 is object deduplication, the ability to manage optimized data end-to-end and customize the workflow by deciding how and where in the life-cycle to dedupe and compress data. Object deduplication, unique to the Ocarina ECOsystem, can identify duplicate information within and across file types, tiers and vendors, resulting in much higher reduction rates. Object dedupe delivers data reduction where ordinary block dedupe does not because it can operate without the need for a lot of duplicated data. Block dedupe is best suited for backup environments and object dedupe for online storage.

"This release sits squarely at the intersection of two major industry trends — the rampant growth of unstructured data at enterprise IT shops and NAS vendors seeking to offer more storage capacity at lower costs," said Murli Thirumale, CEO, Ocarina Networks. "Ocarina Optimized dramatically changes the capacity trajectory of storage systems and enables the new category of Optimized NAS. This is perfect timing for customers in these tough economic times."