At our last cloud meeting the EMC Atmos team came out to speak and provided some insight into their new category of storage called “Cloud Optimized Storage” or COS which EMC defines as:

• Massively Scalable - not just inside a datacenter but on a global scale.
• Global Distribution - policy driven so that you can automatically place data where it needs to be based on demand or a need for improved protection (aka disaster protection)
• Efficiency at Scale - to make information available when needed and where it is needed the platform has to be smart enough to copy data where it is demanded and reduce the copies when they are not in use.

I’ve attached the Atmos presentation they presented and the cloudcast from the meeting both of which you can find here:

Atmos Presentation

Atmos Cloudcast

March 11, 2009
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

 Welcome!

Once again we have a great lineup for the New England Cloud User Group meeting:

6th Silver-lining Meeting – The New England Cloud User Group

Date: March 11, 2009  (Note: Wednesday)
Time: Meet & Greet 6-7 pm
Meeting: 7-9 pm

NEW LOCATION!!!

Microsoft Northeast District: Waltham, MA

Address: 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA 02451 Phone: (781) 487-6400 Fax: (781) 487-6600

Directions:  Microsoft

 This next meeting (03/11/2009) brings two companies that provide Infrastructure related products to the cloud. Ed Beauvais, Sr. Product Manager from EMC Corporation will be talking about the new Atmos Cloud Optimized Storage. Nicos Vekiarides, CEO of Twinstrata will be talking about configuring infrastructure using private and public cloud technologies and how to avoid the risks in the design.

 

Ed Beauvais

Senior Product Manager

Cloud Infrastructure Group EMC Corporation

 

Ed Beauvais is Senior Product Manager in the Cloud Infrastructure Group at EMC Corporation and is responsible for EMC Atmos – the industry’s leading multi-petabyte information management solution for cloud storage environments.

 

Ed joined EMC’s Technology Ventures Group in April of 2007 with the objectives of creating innovative market solutions in emerging technology markets and creating business model innovation.  Prior to joining EMC, Ed was Director of Product Management for Fidelity Investments focusing on the development and improvement of a web based service platform for the Investment Advisor marketplace. 

 

Nicos Vekiarides

Chief Executive Officer

Twinstrata, Inc.

 

Nicos has spent 18 years in the data storage field, both as a business manager and as an entrepreneur and founder in startup companies. Most recently, Nicos served as Vice President of Product Strategy and Technology at Incipient, Inc., where he helped deliver the industry’s first storage virtualization solution embedded in a Cisco switch fabric.

 

Prior to Incipient, Nicos was General Manager of the storage virtualization business at Hewlett-Packard, where he managed a multi-site business, delivering several releases of network storage virtualization products and growing the business to include host-based products. Nicos came to HP with the acquisition of StorageApps where he was a co-founder and VP of Engineering. At StorageApps, he built a team that brought to market the industry’s first storage virtualization appliance. Nicos was instrumental in the sale of StorageApps to Hewlett-Packard for $350M in 2001. Prior to StorageApps, Nicos spent a number of years in the data storage industry working at Sun Microsystems and Encore Computer. At Encore, Nicos architected and delivered Encore Computer’s SP data replication products that were a key factor in the $185M sale of Encore’s storage division to Sun Microsystems.

 

Nicos holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT.