This week, I am attending Gestalt IT Field Day. During this event, Silicon Valley companies are allowing attendees to come in and see technologies in use. One of the stops during the event is Ocarina Networks. Ocarina specializes in online storage optimization to reduce disk consumption. The main point of our visit today focused on explaining compression and de-duplication for data management. For compression, there are a few standard ways to approach it.

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