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Atmos rising…(from Maui)

by dave on November 10, 2008

Today is the official GA of EMC‘s latest-n-greatest product, Atmos. For all intents and purposes, you probably have heard of Atmos under a different guise: Maui. In any case, I’ll be taking a look at some of the features and functionalities of Atmos as well as potential integration points for your business. Finally, if you’re really interested, I’ll discuss the hardware underpinnings of Atmos which point towards its ability to scale to multiple-petabytes of information storage. It will probably be easiest to “unpack” the press release, but lets get some of the foundational information out of the way.

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Future Storage Systems: Part 4: Operating System – Conceptual Overview

by dave on October 13, 2008

In the previous Future Storage System articles, we’ve covered the basic hardware foundation for what I envision to be a powerful future-oriented storage solution for the commercial midrange. However, as you’re probably aware, hardware is meaningless without software to provide the operational capabilities that are needed to mange information. In this article, I will focus on a general design for an extensible software layer (an OS) that will provide future-oriented capability expansion as well as robust analytics, capabilities, and integration with business continuity principles. As always, please reference the diagram below.