Dell acquires storage optimisation company Ocarina

Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 13:41

IT Industry - Deals

Dell has agreed the acquisition of Ocarina Networks, a developer of storage software.

According to Dell officials, Ocarina's content-aware optimisation technology uses compression and deduplication to dramatically reduce storage space requirements and the amount of redundant data.

Ocarina offers three products: Optimizers (space reduction for NAS devices through lossless optimisation, plus layout optimisation), ECOreader (allows applications to transparently read optimised files) and ECOvault (a highly compressed, time-sequenced archive).

"Ocarina provides an important component of our data management portfolio and our EqualLogic ecosystem to provide customers the best value for their IT investments," said Brad Anderson, senior vice president of Dell's enterprise product group.

"Content-aware deduplication allows us to provide a true global approach to deduplication across the datacenter and has a tremendous ripple effect of cost savings that frees up budgets for strategic investments," he added.

Murli Thirumale, CEO of Ocarina Networks said the acquisition represented "a great opportunity for the Ocarina technology, and for Ocarina customers and partners."

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