Chris Evans of Architecting IT Blog comments:

One of the more interesting announcements from EMC World 2014 last week was a new platform from EMC called Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS).  ECS is the “productisation” of the previously announced Project Nile, which  I discussed  last year.  At the time, the indications were that Nile was some kind of packaged VNX solution sold in a cloud/scale-out model.  We now know that’s not the case and in fact ECS takes some of EMC’s recent storage acquisitions and put them together into a totally new product.

Project Nile comes to fruition as an elastic cloud service from EMC. It will be interesting to see where this goes…

Read more at: EMC takes on Google and Amazon with Elastic Cloud Storage