Ocarina Networks, a provider of end-to-end deduplication solutions for online storage, has announced Electronic Discovery service providers LDiscovery and SFL Data (formerly SF Legal) have implemented the Ocarina ECOsystem deduplication solution to improve business performance and reduce infrastructure costs pertaining to the retention of legally regulated documents and files.

E-discovery operations—featuring the extensive examination of multiple terabytes of data related to litigation efforts—require providers to build and maintain large data centers to ingest, index, maintain, and serve customer data while meeting strict chain-of-custody requirements. Ocarina's content-aware deduplication can deliver aggregate savings of up to 80 percent on enterprise data sets used in e-Discovery operations, with files such as Microsoft Office documents reduced by as much as 95percent. Because the Ocarina platform delivers a 5x increase in effective storage capacity, e-Discovery providers can retain more data in online archival storage, reducing cost and complexity while improving service to their clients.

The Ocarina ECOsystem provides a data reduction solution for online storage, reducing data up to 80 percent depending on the file types and decreasing the effective cost of data storage. ECOsystem works with a variety of Network Attached Storage and file server systems, including tiered-storage architectures, where storage is capacity-optimized using Ocarina's content-aware dedupe and compression algorithms with a variety of algorithms that support over 900 file types. The Ocarina ECOsystem reduces the files that routinely stretch enterprise storage resources, such as Microsoft Office files, PDFs, MP3 files, and most other common file types, leading to as much as 5x more disk capacity.