Dell set to acquire Ocarina Network, a data deduplication solution provider

Dell has announced about signing an agreement to buy Ocarina Network, a provider of data deduplication solutions. The amount at which the deal was sealed has not been declared yet.

Ocarina has a content aware technology for storage optimization which means data deduplication along with compression. Until now, they used to sell their products and solutions in bundled appliances. Only a month ago, the company had announced a version of ECOsystem that could be embedded. ECOsystem is a technology for data reduction targeted towards OEMs. Before this release of the latest version of ECOsystem’s embeddable technology, Ocarina was recognized as a leading data reduction solutions provider for primary storage.

In the press release which has Dell’s announcement of acquiring Ocarina, Murli Thurmale, CEO of Ocarina, said that the acquisition takes deduplication not only to the primary storage but also to other key areas of storage such as backup, migration, replication and tiering. The release also says that Ocarina has brought high performance deduplication ability to complement EqualLogic solutions that are provided by Dell. Brad Anderson, Senior vice president of Enterprise Product Group, Dell was of the opinion that a very important component of Dell’s data management portfolio and the EqualLogic solution is provided by Ocarina.