OCARINA REDUCES DATA FOOTPRINT TEN-FOLD WITH NEW ONLINE STORAGE OPTIMIZATION SOLUTION
Massive Growth of Media Rich Files Such as Photos, Video, Email and Office Documents Drives Demand for Breakthrough Online Storage Optimization Technology

April 7, 2008 – San Jose, Calif. – Ocarina Networks today announced the availability of its industry-first online storage optimization solution, helping customers store up to 10 times more data on their current storage from any storage vendor.

As the volume of information created and shared over the Internet, including email attachments, office and media files continues to grow at a massive rate, the requirements for the modern Internet data center have dramatically evolved. Now more than ever, organizations need solutions that cost-effectively increase the capacity of their existing storage solutions, while decreasing related operational expenses.

"The explosion of digital content is forcing organizations to find ways to optimize primary disk capacity," said Heidi Biggar, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. "Products such as Ocarina's storage optimization technology, which compresses and de-duplicates data at the information level, are taking center stage because of the immediate cost-savings they can enable. In today's world, tools like these aren't just ‘nice-to-haves,' they are becoming ‘must haves.'"

Introducing Ocarina

Led by a team of proven enterprise software executives and backed by leading investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners, Ocarina has developed an innovative, highly intelligent system that optimizes the storage of online data.

Ocarina's patented appliance uses a three-step file-aware optimization process - Extract, Correlate and Optimize (ECO) - to reduce the size of already compressed files and deliver unmatched capacity improvements in storage systems in Internet data centers. Unlike other solutions aimed at reducing storage data footprints such as dedupe and generic compression, Ocarina uniquely has the ability to optimize large, media rich files.

Photoways Group, the European leader of online photographic services which operates under Photoways and PhotoBox brands, gets 1.5 million photos uploaded per day. "Containing storage cap-ex and op-ex has a big impact on our P&L.

The first time I heard about Ocarina, it sounded simply too good to be true," said Graham Hobson, CTO of Photoways Group. "Based on our initial testing we are confident that the Ocarina solution will allow us to defer a significant portion of our storage purchases this year, resulting in a drastic reduction on capital spending as well as operational expenses. Bottom line, we believe that Ocarina will pay for itself within six months of installation, save us millions of Euros over the next few years, and change the way we buy storage and the overall economics of our business in the future."

Additionally, Ocarina is one of the first solutions to reduce the environmental impact of online data storage. Its benefits include reduced cooling, rack space and energy costs. And because there is no need to replace existing storage resources, it is a far more cost-effective way to go green.

"The accelerating growth of user generated content, graphics intensive applications, and increased compliance requirements, is straining storage infrastructures worldwide," said Murli Thirumale, CEO of Ocarina Networks. "Ocarina can provide immediate benefit to organizations that are struggling to contain rising storage acquisition costs as well as operational expenses such as power, cooling and data center space. Ultimately, we help customers achieve the holy grail of increased data capacity with little or no new investments in additional storage infrastructure."

Solution Overview and Availability

Available immediately, the Ocarina solution includes:

• Ocarina Optimizer: A hardware appliance that reads files, optimizes them, and writes them back to storage.
• Ocarina Reader: A software solution that in real-time expands optimized files created by the Optimizer.

About Ocarina

Ocarina is a leader in online storage optimization solutions. Organizations of all sizes use Ocarina's file-aware optimization technology to reduce their storage footprint and achieve a ten-fold capacity increase on their current storage systems. Based in San Jose, Calif., Ocarina is privately-held and financed by leading investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners. For more information, visit www.ocarinanetworks.com

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