Ocarina claims online de-dupe breakthrough
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| The ECO process is extremely processor-intensive, so the optimizer box is a
| 16-core Linux appliance. It works out-of-band, pulling files off your NAS
| system, compressing them and then putting them back in Ocarina format - a
| size-reduced shadow format, with bit-for-bit consistency checks.
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| File reconstruction is much faster and is handled by reader software, also
| Linux-based. You can install it as a filter on a web or application server,
| or on a workstation, or buy a complete Ocarina Reader appliance.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;225200862
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Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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