EMC policy to shut down its Atmos Online cloud storage service instantly as per to a posting on its website EMC said its hosted storage service will be phased out instantly, and it is presenting no guarantee that any existing users storing data on it will be able to recover it in the future.

"Consequently, we strongly encourage that you travel any dangerous data or production workloads at present served by Atmos Online to one of our partners presenting Atmos based services," EMC instructed users on its site.

EMC started Atmos Online a bit lot than a year ago, but the service not at all took off, as per the industry analysts. An EMC presenter said as number of service supplier adopting EMC Atmos technology continues to grow, the corporation decided not to proclaim the general accessibility of the Atmos Online storage service for production use.

"The power of the Atmos ecology is mostly based on the service providers who deliver Atmos-based services and on Internet service providers who incorporate by the technology," he said. "EMC will focus on developing this ecosystem and permit Atmos Online to take a supporting role."

EMC said Atmos Online will stay accessible strictly as a development environment to promote adoption of Atmos technology and Atmos cloud services "accessible by our incessantly increasing variety of Service Provider partners who present production services."