So 'Zilla has done the great reveal at last! I've known what Maui is for sometime; it's an interesting product and pretty much in it's own niche at the moment. I suppose it is closer to something like Cleversafe but still it's different.
It's order of scale is huge and I know that EMC already have some very large household names sitting on Atmos; it's amazing that more details hadn't leaked out before. The biggest problem is that it is going to need ISV support for it to be a massive success. Although it does support SOAP/REST, CIFS and NFS; ISV certification etc is going to be key. For example, I need the leading Media Asset Management solutions certified so that it can be integrated as part of the digital workflow.
It's going to be interesting to seeing how the market reacts, what the whole spin is. The problem is with doing something new…no-one knows quite how to position and how quite to use it. But at least it revealed.
BTW, ATMOS is not a particularly well starred name in the UK IT industry, anyone remember the Oric Atmos? Probably not unless you are a real geek like me!! So, it could all go horribly wrong!
You’ve written about EMC’s atmost, find the product that really started it by looking at twistedstorage.sourceforge.net. Around 2005-2006 I made the rounds of the technical and venture community talking about storage and how to do it right!
In late 2005/early 2006 I created an open source version and put it on Sourceforge laying out the feature set I was developing. I sold the initial version to a private ISV in the Boston area, called Intellireach (later part of WiPro). In the intervening years it has been used at various places around the world and being trialed at two very large prestigous institutions in the eastern U.S!
Atmost is a toy! Check out the real start of it.
Chuck Wegrzyn
twistedstorage.sourceforge.net