Comments on: Head in the Clouds http://permabit.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/head-in-the-clouds/ Information and Opinions from the Permabit Team Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:08:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Storagezilla http://permabit.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/head-in-the-clouds/#comment-64 Storagezilla Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:07:13 +0000 http://permabit.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-64 We'll gloss over the usual Centera evil empire parts as every competitor has an opinion (But very little market presence) on that. "Last week I did say that now is the time to consider investing in new, cheaper, more effective storage architectures so that you can save money in tough times. I definitely stand by that, but I’m not saying you should change your whole application chain to fit into totally new interfaces at the same time…." Who's changing what applications? I understand you're looking at this through the archiving app but look at Amazon S3, no XAM there just SOAP/REST. I wouldn't count out XAM support but EMC already has a solution for that and it's called Centera. There's an entire developer community from large to small building cloud services on SOAP/REST and not only aren't they aware of XAM, they don't care about XAM. You don't have to like it, it's where the target market for Atmos has settled on we want they're money so we're using their interfaces of choice. We’ll gloss over the usual Centera evil empire parts as every competitor has an opinion (But very little market presence) on that.

“Last week I did say that now is the time to consider investing in new, cheaper, more effective storage architectures so that you can save money in tough times. I definitely stand by that, but I’m not saying you should change your whole application chain to fit into totally new interfaces at the same time….”

Who’s changing what applications? I understand you’re looking at this through the archiving app but look at Amazon S3, no XAM there just SOAP/REST.

I wouldn’t count out XAM support but EMC already has a solution for that and it’s called Centera. There’s an entire developer community from large to small building cloud services on SOAP/REST and not only aren’t they aware of XAM, they don’t care about XAM.

You don’t have to like it, it’s where the target market for Atmos has settled on we want they’re money so we’re using their interfaces of choice.

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