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storage optimization
Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 8)
SM: Are your sales initially going to be direct? MT: Initially yes. I really believe that is the only way to do it initially, and probably the best way overall. I will mention that we have had a lot of partner interest so I am not throwing that option out the door. If you think
Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 7)
SM: When you started the company you identified the problem. After that what was the evolution of building the company? MT: Let’s talk about the customer validation part because that was in the beginning. We built a proof of concept, and while we were building it we went out and hired a third party storage
Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 6)
SM: You are not alone in the market, but I think you are going after a niche which has been ignored somewhat. MT: Yes. We mentioned earlier the WAN concepts, where people are compressing the data because of the narrow pipes. Companies have done it for backup solutions as well. That is a huge sub-category
Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 5)
SM: Let’s talk about Ocarina. What is the genesis and why? MT: Once I knew that Citrix was doing well I was read to turn it over to somebody else. I asked the CIO of Citrix what his top three problems were. Application deployment was number one on his list. As far as I am
