Right before the Fourth of July weekend EMC stuck a firecracker in the production arm of Atmos Online and blew it off.
It does not bode well for clouds anywhere.
Atmos Online was its 14-month-old, potentially Amazon-challenging, multi-tenant/multi-petabyte storage-as-a-cloud service that was supposed to let people build their own on-premise cloud service or, complements of federation, leverage a public cloud to deliver content and information services to reduce costs.
EMC says on its web site – without saying why though – that the widgetry, which eBay used for its storage, will only be available from here on out – and who knows how long that is – as a development environment “to foster adoption of Atmos technology and Atmos cloud services offered by our continuously expanding range of Service Provider partners who offer production services.”
Paid subscriptions and support are gone. Ditto any SLAs.
EMC is telling customers to “migrate any critical data or production workloads currently served via Atmos Online to one of our partners offering Atmos-based services” and naming three: AT&T’s on-demand Synaptic Storage as a Service, Hosted Solutions’ Stratus Cloud Storage and Peer 1 Hosting’s CloudOne Storage. No mention of any help migrating though it claims in an e-mail that “We have worked with customers to make transitions as seamless and secure as possible.”
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