Tech Field Day, Day 2. Ocarina, in San Jose, is a company that provides data de-duplication appliances. At Ocarina, Gestalt IT Tech Field Day delegates were treated to an eye-opener on data and de-duplication. When Ocarina CTO Gow walked in with a (paper) notebook and started wiping off the whiteboard in order to brief us, we knew we were in for a treat. He didn’t disappoint. He proceeded to lecture us – in a good way – about what data de-duplication was, and how Ocarina’s appliances and IP fitted into this. By the time he was done, you could see that their (Ocarina’s) mantra of helping you reclaim storage that you currently have, was imminently attainable. To a person, we loved the presentation, and that segued into the presentation by Nirvanix

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