Cloud storage might be a good idea for some use cases, but that doesn’t mean any service provider is a good choice. EMC announced last week that its Atmos Online service was no longer offering any SLA’s and is no longer supported for production usage:
We will no longer be offering paid subscription or support for Atmos Online services. Any existing production accounts will not be billed either for past or future usage. We will also no longer provide any SLA or other availability commitment. As a result, we strongly encourage that you migrate any critical data or production workloads currently served via Atmos Online to one of our partners offering Atmos based services.
Continue reading EMC reminds us not to rely too much on cloud services yet
If you happen to read the (interesting and entertaining) blog posts both NetApp and EMC produce, or follow @chuckhollis and @Vaughn_Stewart, you might already have noticed their discussion about data deduplication and the merits of each others storage arrays. If not, keep reading! Continue reading EMC vs NetApp
EMC and VMware have expanded their business and technology alliance; EMC is now a fully authorized reseller of VMware vCenter AppSpeed. AppSpeed will be offered as part of EMC’s Ionix portfolio, expanding the management capabilities for their customers physical and virtual infrastructures. [...]
One of EMC’s two founders, Richard Egan, died last night at the age of 73. In an e-mailed statement, his family said that Mr. Egan was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in May. Egan founded EMC thirty years ago this week, retiring as Chairman Emeritus in 2001.
Continue reading EMC cofounder Richard Egan dies at the age of 73
With VMworld starting next week, there’s lots of virtualization-related storage news. Here’s a quick summary of the main items for today: Continue reading Lots of virtualization-related news
During last week’s earnings call, EMC shared some more information about their FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) feature. This new feature was announced earlier this year, but this is the first time I’ve seen an actual timeframe being specified since their first press release about the new Symmetrix V-Max arrays. Continue reading EMC’s Fully Automated Storage Tiering coming soon
Just over a month after Apple officially announced the end of the PowerPC era, EMC has pushed out an updated version of its Retrospect backup software that adds PowerPC support. From the press release:
“Adding support for PowerPC Macs was a critical step towards providing small and mid-sized businesses the best backup and recovery product for their needs,” said Peter Wharton, vice president of marketing, EMC Consumer and Small Business Products Division. “Many existing Retrospect sites, as well as small businesses that have either outgrown Time Machine or that wish to centralize their backups, might only have a PowerPC-based Mac to utilize as a Retrospect backup server. EMC Retrospect 8.1 now seamlessly addresses that need.”
Continue reading EMC’s Retrospect gets PowerPC support
The Register had just published a nice article by Chris Mellor, in which he argues that lots of storage startups are aiming for a market that simply doesn’t exist or is a lot smaller than they might think: Continue reading Is there a niche for large-scale file storage products?
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