EMC Atmos and Atmos onLine —The Yin and Yang of Unstructured Data Storage

Atmos

In fall 2008, EMC launched Atmos as its solution to the Dilemma of Unstructured Data, especially static and distributed data. The Atmos storage platform is very different from EMC’s other storage families, such as Sym-metrix, Clariion, Celerra, and Centera. It is not SAN, NAS, or CAS in the traditional sense of these terms. The Atmos name is short for atmosphere, suggestive of the visible forma-tions of water droplets that float through it, and of this new genre of scalable computing and storage services accessed over a network. Atmos’ capabilities for massive scale, geo-graphical distribution, low cost, self-manage-ment, and data management are well suited for the volumes of unstructured data that enter-prises now generate.

 

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on June 25, 2009 The Clipper Group NavigatorTM