EMC publishes industry's first cloud storage infrastructure Atmos

November 12, 2008, Global Information Infrastructure Solutions Leader EMC (NYSE: EMC) announces its first launch today of the cloud storage infrastructure (cloud infrastructure) emc®atmos™, also known as Maui. EMC Atmos is the first information management solution with a capacity of up to thousands of megabytes (Petabyte, Pb). Atmos can help customers automate the management of large amounts of unstructured data through a global cloud storage (cloud storage) environment. With its global centralized management and automated information configuration, the Web 2.0 users, Internet service providers, media and entertainment companies can safely build and implement cloud information management services.

WEB 2.0 users are creating more and more rich applications, files, videos, photos, music and other information can be shared around the world. WEB 2.0 users put forward new requirements for information management Services, which is the main reason for the advent of "cloud optimized storage" (Cloud optimized storage, COS), COS will also become synonymous with global information infrastructure in the future.

The leading edge of EMC Atmos is the ability to distribute and process information, using policy-based management systems to create different levels of cloud storage. For example, define important data that is commonly used as "important", which can be replicated in multiple copies and stored in several different locations, while infrequently used data is less replicated and stored; data that is no longer in use is compressed, and the copy backup is saved in fewer places. At the same time, Atmos can create different service levels for both paid and paid users, paying users to create replicas more, keep multiple sites worldwide, and ensure higher reliability and faster read speeds.

EMC Atmos built-in data compression, deduplication, and multi-client sharing and Network Service Application Design Interface (API) functionality. Service providers implement secure online services or other modes of application through EMC Atmos. Media and entertainment companies can also use the same functionality to save, publish, and manage global digital media assets. EMC Atmos is an essential competitive tool for companies to deliver quality services to their customers, as they can have a PB-level cloud storage environment at low cost.

"In today's digital world, unstructured digital assets such as digital photos, images, streaming media are growing fast and their value is rising," said Benjamin Woo, vice president of enterprise Storage Systems Research at IDC, an international data company. Companies and organizations of all sizes want to make good use of such assets, and the emerging cloud storage infrastructure is an efficient solution. Cloud storage Solutions use a number of highly distributed resources (highly distributed) as a single area data-processing center, enabling information to flow freely, and enterprises to use the new cloud storage infrastructure solutions such as EMC Atmos will be able to greatly enhance business potential and competitiveness. ”

EMC Atmos Features

EMC Atmos combines powerful storage capacity with management policies to automatically distribute data anytime, anywhere.

combined with powerful object metadata and strategic data management functions, it can effectively carry out data configuration service. Includes data management services such as replication, versioning, compression, duplicate data deletion, and disk hibernation. Web Service application design interfaces include rest and soap, and almost all applications are easily integrated. Includes automatic management and repair capabilities, as well as unified namespaces and browser management tools. These features dramatically reduce management time and enable easy control and management of any location. Multi-customer sharing support that enables the same infrastructure to execute multiple applications and be securely separated, which is best suited for large enterprises that require cloud storage solutions.

The EMC Atmos cloud storage Infrastructure solution contains a cost-effective, high-density storage system that currently atmos three versions, with a system capacity of 120TB, 240TB, and 360TB respectively. "EMC, as the global leader in enterprise storage and information management systems, is the only company that can offer a powerful cloud storage infrastructure to deliver a new generation of cloud storage services," said Mike Feinberg, senior vice president of EMC's corporate cloud storage infrastructure. The information content created by global users is growing at an alarming rate, and information infrastructure solutions need to evolve in a way that enables rapid and efficient management of petabytes of information. EMC is witnessing the information revolution, and future large enterprise customers will be able to manage global data more effectively, and new cloud storage services are officially underway. ”