Dell, continuing to bring innovative young companies into its realm,
revealed late on July 19 that it acquiring San Jose, Calif.-based
storage deduplication software provider Ocarina Networks. Terms of the
transaction were not disclosed.
Ocarina brings second-generation deduplication capability to bundle
inside Dell's EqualLogic storage product line, which is aimed primarily
at unstructured data in midrange enterprise-size data centers.
Ocarina's open-standards software includes compression. The hybrid
application is designed to snap easily into existing storage systems to
enable users to store the same amount of data on significantly fewer
disks.
The company said its Ocarina Optimizers have shrunk more than 1 billion
files in tests with early support customers. Ocarina's three-step
software line—called Extract, Correlate and Optimize—can deduplicate
file types that include e-mail, photos, video, Microsoft Office files
and industry-specific file types for energy, media, medicine and
genomics applications.
Dell earlier this month bought data center automation specialist Scalent Systems, and in February it acquired application virtualization provider KACE.
Ocarina Networks was founded in 2007. Dell said it expects to complete
the acquisition by the end of the month. After closing, Dell said it
plans to maintain and invest in additional engineering and sales
capability. There are no plans to move the current operations.
Ocarina was featured this past week in an eWEEK slideshow on "17 Promising Storage Companies Flying Under the Radar." Suddenly, Ocarina isn't under anybody's radar anymore.
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