Eric Burgener, Taneja Group analyst

It's Time for Primary Storage Optimization "Targeted for use with IP storage, Ocarina Networks is the only vendor to date offering format-aware optimization against primary storage. Although some SSO vendors have claimed that application-specific approaches to capacity optimization are not effective, this tends to be relevant only for inline capacity optimization. Format-aware capacity optimization takes more CPU cycles and does take slightly longer, but does not present performance issues when used by out-of-band approaches."