DESCRIPTION

Ocarina Networks, a storage/data compression software technology was acquired by Dell July 31, 2010 Ocarina provides an industry-first online storage optimization solution, helping customers store up to 10 times more data on their current storage from any storage vendor. Ocarina's file-aware optimization technology makes Ocarina a leader in online storage optimization solutions. Ocarina's technology allows companies to reduce their storage footprint and achieve a ten-fold capacity increase on their current storage systems. Unlike other solutions aimed at reducing storage data footprints such as dedupe and generic compression, Ocarina uniquely has the ability to optimize large, media rich files.