Comments on: EMC's Crazy Plan to Create a Worldwide Data Cloud

By: Do Service Providers Forecast the Enterprise Storage Future?

Do Service Providers Forecast the Enterprise Storage Future? — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:02:01 +0000

[...] providers. In addition to Amazon S3, there are now compelling offerings from Microsoft, Rackspace, EMC, and soon, Google. Even though the public clouds have garnered more than their share of attention, [...]

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:22:53 +0000

In 2000 Mike Ruettgers then CEO said he envisions a future that entails universal data tone. This data tone will let users simply plug their computers into the network and enjoy automatic data management.

By: Online Storage Optimization » Blog Archive » Storage News and Views - March 17

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:35:42 +0000

[...] Stacey Higginbotham , GigaOM (yes, GigaOm! Welcome to sto-land, Stacey) - EMC’s Crazy Plan to Create a Worldwide Data Cloud [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:02:47 +0000

This doesn't seem like a new idea. Both CDN's and this EMC scheme are solving the same problem for different customers.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:44:55 +0000

It sure sounds crazy at this point in time. Maybe there is a better way than just moving huge amounts of data around and having so many copies as well.