The Ocarina Optimizers

The Ocarina Optimizers are high-performance appliances that read your data from your existing NAS storage, optimize it using the Ocarina ECOsystem process, and then write the optimized smaller files back on to your same storage or migrate the newly optimized data sets to a different tier of storage. An Optimizer reduces the space needed to store the application data without losing a single bit of data. This is called Lossless Optimization. Once the Ocarina Optimizer has achieved the best possible lossless space reduction for a given set of files, it figures out the best way to lay out those files on your existing storage platform – whether that is EMC, BlueArc, HP, an Isilon cluster, or some other storage solution.

Unlike some industry dedupe solutions, the Ocarina Optimizers do not store data. They are stateless compression co-processors to the primary NAS storage system, thus improving reliability and scalability.

Each storage platform has certain characteristics – block sizes, caching strategies, metadata layout – and Ocarina’s Optimizer allows Ocarina to make decisions about how to write files onto that storage platform in best way. The Ocarina ECOsystem is an out-of-band solution – it waits until files have been written and then the file is read in to the Ocarina Optimizer appliance where it’s processed. Operating out-of-band enables additional storage space savings, because the Optimizer can take time to choose the best strategy for each file and set of files, and for each storage platform.

All optimizers run the same software image and can provide the same data reduction benefits. The primary difference between optimizers is throughput performance, which is tailored to each customer engagement. Optimizers utilize a scale-out architecture and may be clustered for additional performance.

Available Models:

• The Ocarina 2400, a 1ru 8-core server
• The Ocarina 3400, a 2ru 12-core server, pictured below
• The Ocarina 4600, a 2ru 24-core server