New EMC Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform Enhancements Simplify Delivery of Cloud Storage-as-a-Service - Fully Functional in Minutes
Cloud Storage-as-a-Service - Fully Functional in Minutes
Atmos GeoDrive Family Extended to Support Linux - Enables Instant
Access to Any Atmos Cloud and Eliminates Need to Write Code
News Highlights:
* Today EMC® announces enhancements to the EMC Atmos® Cloud Delivery
Platform, delivering newly expanded cloud metering services and enhanced
administrative reporting and controls for enterprises and service
providers.
* Now service providers can deliver and monetize self-branded
storage-as-a-service offerings even faster, while enterprises can more
easily transform IT into an internal service organization, enabling
agility and cost savings throughout the business.
* New Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform is packaged as a VMware® vApp and
enables customers to install a turnkey storage-as-a-service offering
with a few clicks of the mouse.
* Atmos GeoDrive now supports Linux, in addition to Windows operating
system, extending customers’ self-service infrastructure by providing
instant access to the cloud without having to write a single line of
code.
* EMC Atmos is designed to manage information for globally distributed
big data and cloud storage environments.
Full Story:
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today further simplified the way
enterprises and service providers implement and access public and
private cloud storage with new enhancements to the EMC Atmos Cloud
Delivery Platform. With a simplified installation process and improved
visibility and reporting tools, the enhanced Atmos Cloud Delivery
Platform delivers expanded cloud metering services and enhanced
administrative reporting and controls. Packaged as a VMware vApp, the
Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform enables service providers to deliver and
monetize self-branded storage-as-a-service offerings even faster, while
enterprises can more easily transform IT into an internal service
organization, enabling agility and cost savings throughout the business.
EMC also announced that EMC GeoDrive now supports both Linux and Windows
operating systems, enabling instant access to any Atmos cloud without
ever having to write a single line of code.
EMC Atmos is designed to manage information for globally distributed
big data and cloud storage environments. With EMC Atmos as its
foundation, the Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform provides a complete,
turnkey storage-as-a-service solution. The enhanced Atmos Cloud Delivery
Platform is packaged as a VMware vApp for a faster and more intuitive
installation process. It enables customers to have their service up and
running in a matter of minutes. By adding a new administrative portal,
the Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform now provides customers with lifecycle
management. For example, administrators can now monitor accounts and
instantly take action on capacity requests, service level changes and
account modifications. The existing end user portal makes it easier than
ever to request storage in three easy steps, without ever having to
contact IT. Once an account is established, this portal provides
self-service access, management and reporting capabilities on bandwidth
and capacity usage.
New GeoDrive support for Linux enables customers to further extend
their self-service infrastructure by providing instant access to the
cloud without having to write a single line of code. Now supporting
Windows and Linux environments, GeoDrive requires no API integration for
Atmos-based clouds and includes a set of rich features and security
capabilities including encryption, compression and throttling. With new
Linux integration, GeoDrive now supports RedHat and SLES platforms.
Customer Quote:
Curtis A. Carver Jr., Vice Chancellor and CIO, Board of Regents,
University System of Georgia
“The University System of Georgia is focused on collaborative
partnership, high performance and value-based relationships with
our
strategic partners. As we roll out new private cloud-based services to
our 36 educational institutions, we examined several viable offerings
before partnering with EMC to offer these innovative services. We are
excited at the potential of these new offerings to enhance campus
agility and innovation while realizing significant cost savings and
enterprise economies of scale through these offerings.”
EMC Executive:
Mike Feinberg, General Manager and Senior Vice President, EMC Cloud
Infrastructure Group
“We’ve seen tremendous traction and interest from both service
providers and enterprises looking to deploy public and private cloud
storage offerings, and both have benefited greatly from the new
advancements built into the Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform. Our customers
are finding the less time they spend on provisioning, managing and
billing, the more profitable their cost centres become. With our latest
Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform release and GeoDrive for Linux, we’ve
taken a significant step forward in terms of product, but more
importantly our customers can take a significant step forward in terms
of their business.”
Availability
Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform 1.1 and GeoDrive support for Linux are
available today.
Additional Resources
* Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform Data Sheet
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/data-sheet/h7472-atmos-cloud-delivery-platform-ds.pdf)
* GeoDrive Data Sheet
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/data-sheet/h8796-atmos-geodrive-ds.pdf)
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About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service
providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service.
Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through
innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze
their most valuable asset - information - in a more agile, trusted and
cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at
www.EMC.com.
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from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
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