According to previous details, Maui is to be a clustered file system software that will compete with Isilon's OneFS or NetApp's OnTap GX.
In November 2007, EMC CEO Joe Tucci said this: "Maui is well beyond a clustered file system, but will incorporate some of the things a clustered file system does," somewhat vaguely, during a keynote at an EMC Innovation Day event.
According to my source the final features for Atmos will include the following:
Massively scalable infrastructure
- Petabyte scale
- Global footprint
All-in-one data services
- Replication, Versioning
- Compression, Spin-down,
- De-duplication
- Advanced metadata support, Indexing
- Powerful access mechanisms
Intelligent data management
- Personalized by metadata and policy
- Auto-configuring when capacity is added
- Auto-healing when failures occur
- Auto-managing content placement
Cost effective hardware
- Industry standard building blocks
- Modular packaging
- User-serviceable components
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Reduces complexity of global content distribution
- Policy based intelligence for objects and tenants
Single tier easy to manage
- Auto-configuring, auto-healing, browser-based interface
Infinitely scalable
- Multi-petabytes, multi-site, multi-tenant
Easily to integrate and extend
- REST and SOAP API’s, NFS, CIFS, IFS
Easy to configure and expand
- Single-entity, global namespace, No RAID, No LUNs
Cost compelling content store, dispersion and archive
- Standard hardware, economy of scale
According to my source, EMC also has a few more products for the cloud but the source couldn't say anymore about it.
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