Ocarina Networks Partners With Hitachi Data Systems to Help Customers Dramatically Reduce Costs via Capacity Optimized

SAN JOSE, CA, Apr 20 (MARKET WIRE) --
Ocarina Networks today announced that it has joined the Hitachi Data
Systems Technical Alliance Partner (TAP) ISV Program. The program is
designed to offer its partners comprehensive interoperability testing and
validation certification with Hitachi's industry-leading storage
solutions.

As part of the partnership, the Hitachi High-Performance NAS platform is
now "Ocarina Optimized," providing a way for customers to keep pace with
massive data growth and related requirements by cost-effectively
increasing the capacity of new and installed storage systems.

Together with Hitachi Data Systems, Ocarina can now provide customers with
the best data reduction solution for online storage, offering up to 90
percent more space for online data and delivering results 3-5 times better
than NetApp dedupe.

Ocarina's patented three-step ECOsystem -- Extract, Correlate and Optimize
-- is the world's first content-aware optimization technology to deliver
up to a 10-to-1 reduction in the size of files, such as MS Office
documents, PDFs, ZIPs, and rich media, that are driving the growth of
online storage.

"Hitachi Data Systems customers today need a way to stretch their IT
storage dollars to support the phenomenal growth of unstructured data,"
said Asim Zaheer, vice president of product and competitive marketing,
Hitachi Data Systems. "Ocarina's content optimization technology for NAS
systems complements Hitachi Data Systems' vision by addressing this need,
while providing improved storage efficiency and utilization."

"Hitachi Data Systems is among the many industry heavyweights to pick
Ocarina to make content-aware dedupe for online storage a reality for
existing NAS platforms," said Dave Withers, vice president of strategic
markets and business development, Ocarina Networks. "Our industry-leading
solutions are fast becoming a requirement for vendors seeking to respond
to market demands for optimized storage which reduces capital and
operational storage costs."

Generic compression and block dedupe solutions are unable to address the
main drivers of storage growth: unstructured data such as email, photos,
video, Microsoft Office, as well as industry-specific file types for
energy, media, life sciences, medical and genomics. While only a portion
of this data is accessed on a regular basis, it is becoming increasingly
important to keep all data online and accessible 24/7. As a result,
storage optimization is now a must-have feature for online file-based
storage.

About Ocarina

Ocarina is a leader in online storage optimization solutions.
Organizations of all sizes use Ocarina's content-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 JAFCO
Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners.
For more information, visit www.ocarinanetworks.com.

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