EMC is previewing a new cloud-computing service that aims to fulfill the needs of any large business looking for cost-effective options for storing, distributing and managing huge amounts of information.
Called Atmos Online, the new EMC service is an outgrowth of the policy-based Atmos information management platform the company rolled out last November. The latest technology, which EMC says can be globally scaled, advances the Atmos platform by adding an internal-to-external federation capability that allows businesses to decide whether specific types of data reside in the cloud or behind the corporate firewall.
“By introducing the ability to federate data from on-premise to online, EMC’s Atmos is providing a differentiated approach to cloud storage while delivering the choice, control, flexibility and cost efficiencies of cloud that are required by today’s IT organization,” said IDC Vice President Benjamin Woo.
AT&T Embraces Atmos
AT&T is already a believer. On Monday the communications giant said it intends to launch a new online storage service based on EMC’s Atmos platform.
AT&T noted that businesses with fluctuating data-storage requirements will be able to use its offering to extend the retention of data no longer needed for transactions, and often at a fraction of the cost of managing data over a dedicated storage area network. “The data can be retrieved at any time, to any customer location, including a third-party data center, using a variety of devices such as laptops, smartphones or other Web-enabled handheld devices,” the company said.
The new storage-on-demand offering, which will be jointly managed and marketed by AT&T and EMC, also will provide business customers with control over the storage, distribution and retrieval of their data, noted AT&T Senior Vice President Roman Pacewicz. “AT&T Synaptic Storage helps enterprises get a handle on these increasingly complex storage environments, while controlling costs and improving service levels,” Pacewicz…