EMC Atmos Virtualizes Non-EMC Storage

EMC says it can virtualize its competitors' arrays with its own Atmos cloud storage array. Atmos is designed to combine nodes in massively scalable storage pools and present data locally. As reported on The Register, 3PAR, HDS, HP, IBM, NetApp and other suppliers' arrays could be virtualized and brought into the Atmos fold, with VMware providing the linkage.

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"At EMC World in May the company announced Atmos Virtual Edition (AVE). This is the Atmos software running as a virtual machine under VMware's ESX hypervisor.

"EMC said this extends Atmos' ability to deliver web-accessible, elastic cloud storage qualities to customers using EMC Symmetrix enterprise storage and EMC Celerra unified storage platforms."

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