Ocarina De-Dupe Resold by HP

Ocarina Networks announced a reseller agreement with HP that allows customers to purchase Ocarina’s award winning content-aware compression and dedupe solution directly from HP and from HP channel partners for fulfillment by Ocarina.

The Ocarina ECOsystem for HP seamlessly integrates with the HP Scalable Network Attached Storage (NAS) product family, including the HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System (ExDS9100). The combined solution allows customers to store as much as 10 times more data on HP Scalable NAS platforms, with little to no impact on file serving performance. Independent analyst testing shows that Ocarina’s ECOsystem provides 3 to 5 times better data reduction than NetApp Dedupe, giving HP’s scalable NAS a significant advantage in storage efficiency.

"We are extremely excited to have HP as a strategic reseller of the Ocarina ECOsystem. The combined HP-Ocarina solution provides industry leading data reduction and cost effective capacity optimized storage for enterprises worldwide," said Dave Withers, VP of Business Development of Ocarina Networks.

"Customers need highly scalable storage solutions that efficiently and cost-effectively manage the growing amount of information enterprises are producing on a daily basis," said Lee Johns, Director, Unified Storage, HP StorageWorks. "With this combined solution from HP and Ocarina, customers can lower costs and save time by more efficiently utilizing storage resources." The Ocarina ECOsystem software for HP runs directly on each server node, or performance block, in an HP Scalable NAS cluster. The combined solution also allows customers to seamlessly move data from expensive tier 1 storage to much more cost-efficient tier 2 storage platforms such as HP’s ExDS9100, and compress and dedupe the data as it is being stored on tier 2.

Unlike competing solutions that force customers to compress or dedupe everything on an entire volume, the combined solution from Ocarina and HP allows customers to select files for optimization via policies based on common attributes such as file type, date, owner, or location.

Availability
The Ocarina ECOsystem for HP Scalable NAS is available immediately from HP.