I registered for the beta of EMC’s Atmos Cloud storage offering, Atmos onLine right after EMC World and this week I received confirmation that my registration had been accepted.
So tonight I’ve been looking through the documentation before I start putting together some code to test the service out.
Thin Provisioning (Dynamic Provisioning, Virtual Provisioning, or whatever you prefer to call it) is being heavily touted as a method of reducing storage costs. Whilst at the outset it seems to provide some significant storage savings, it isn’t the answer for all our storage ills.
