Cloud Storage: Take A Vacation from "Some Assembly Required"

  

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Regardless of what holiday you observe this time of year, I’m sure there’s some form of gift giving involved.

Whether you’re a parent of small children or, like me, find yourself providing the “mission critical” IT services to your parents like programming whatever new gadgets they get, these 3 little words “Some Assembly Required” strike fear into the heart of anyone responsible for providing the gift or service.

Do you really want to stay up all night assembling a bike? or a doll house? or pinning the desktop resolution to 800x600 for your folks? Probably not.

Life is short. Holiday time is precious. God Particle or not,  some laws of Physics still apply and we can't bend the time / space continuum.  

Liberation from tedious assembly has value.

Your time is probably better spent with family, friends, or significant others. If you’re passionate about your work, maybe you’d rather spend your time building a new app.

Having things thoughtfully pre-assembled for you can eliminate the effort of assembly and can give you the time to add a creative personal touch on a gift, have a 2nd cup of coffee or adult beverage with a friend, or just get more sleep and be less stressed out.

We feel the same way about storage. 

When we came to market a decade ago with EMC Centera we quickly started seeing it solve difficult problems of storing unstructured content. “Assembling” your own capabilities like compliance, content authenticity and low-touch operation at cloud scale, across multiple sites, on a file system,  took a lot of effort and a lot of money.

In the elapsed time, we've continued to innovate and bake-in the components you'll need for storage as a service.

So just in time for the final holiday rush, here's your check-list of capabilities we've built in that you’d otherwise have to assemble yourself:

With Atmos you can:

• Quickly deploy it as all software in a virtual environment
• Run it on your new file or block based VNX
• Fire up nodes in all sorts combinations in an appliance
• Drop in a client in about a minute to hit the cloud from anywhere
• Push out a pre-packaged vApp in minutes that has all the goodies you need to stand up storage as a service
• Eliminate hundreds of lines of code and complexity and write 6 lines of code instead
• Vaporize 6-digits of cost from your IT budget in the first year like VistaPrint did
• Eliminate complexity and meet meaningful use requirements for your major Hospital

Or better yet?

• (Since it’s the season of on-line shopping) whip out the credit card and order storage online ?
• Try the newest, coolest better-than-a-drop-box app for free?

So,

• If you’re trying to manage mobile apps, get control over an explosion of unstructured content, or
• Quickly stand up all the software needed for delivering software into a Service , or build the next killer app yourself and skip the tedious steps and click Watch Video here
• See how easy it is to build the next cool cloud app (that I may one day have to then configure for my folks) take a workshop
• See for yourself how easily storage as a service can be for your customers, developers or end-users

Freedom from tedious assembly has value. Since the first Centera, we’ve exhaustively worked to drive the complexity and tedium out of storing, managing and protecting content - regardless of where it comes from, where it needs to be stored, and whatever its business or clinical value.

In return, you can free yourself from the ‘some assembly required’ complexity at work. 

Now, with the time you've saved, and tedium you’ve avoided, please invest that time by spending it with those you care about.

Happy Holidays