EMC Launches Self-Service Cloud Storage Platform
EMC Corp. has launched the EMC Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform, a self-service offering designed to help cloud providers deliver storage-as-a-service cheaply and quickly. The idea is to take the burden of rolling a storage service off the provider’s shoulders.
The main difference between EMC Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform and other cloud storage offerings, claims a company statement, is the self-service aspect that lets cloud service providers handle everything from end user provisioning to resource consumption reporting. The goal is flexibility, empowering cloud service providers to integrate billing and chargeback into their customers’ storage deployment.
The core EMC Atmos unstructured data management cloud offering is getting enhancements to go along with the new storage aspect, including things like enhanced multi-tenancy and enabling the addition of things like backup-as-a-service and disaster recovery in conjunction with the Cloud Delivery Platform. And EMC Consulting Services is available to help with deployment.
There’s a lot of hype around cloud storage, with a recent Cisco survey showing that it’s among the leading private cloud service applications and many vendors offering their own takes. Plus, roughly 80 percent of MSPs offer some form of managed storage, according to preliminary data from the fourth-annual MSPmentor 100 global survey (which closes Dec. 17, 2010).
We’ll be watching to see if the EMC Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform manages to stand out from the crowd.
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