EMC Atmos is a

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services platform developed by

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. Atmos can be deployed as either a hardware appliance or as software in a virtual environment. The Atmos technology uses an

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architecture designed to manage petabytes of information and billions of objects across multiple geographic locations as a single system.

History

Atmos was developed by EMC Corporation and made generally available in November 2008. The project used the internal code name "Maui". At least one of the researchers on a project called OceanStore at the

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had also worked on Atmos, using an architecture now known as

. A second major release in February 2010 added a "GeoProtect" distributed data protection feature, faster processors and denser hard drives. During EMC World in May 2011, EMC announced the 2.0 version of Atmos with better performance, more efficient "GeoParity" data protection and expanded access with Windows client software (Atmos GeoDrive) and an Atmos SDK with Centera/ XAM and Apple iOS compatibility.Mosher, Barb
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CMS Wire Atmos can be used as data storage for custom or packaged applications using either a

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data

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, or more traditional storage interfaces like

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(NFS) and

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(SMB). It presents a single unified namespace or object-space, stores information as objects (files and metadata), and manages information by user or administrator-defined policies.

References

External links

Official Atmos Product Page

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