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Nirvanix, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryInformation Management/Data Storage/Cloud Storage Services
Founded2007
HeadquartersSan Diego, CA, USA
Key people
Scott Genereux, President and CEO
Websitenirvanix.com

Nirvanix is a provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services with headquarters in San Diego, California, United States[1]. The company offers public, hybrid and private cloud storage services--all with usage-based pricing and accessible via HTTP, using the Nirvanix Web Services API based on Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) protocols or the Nirvanix CloudNAS gateway software[2]. The company’s second generation technology is utilized by leading IT OEMs and is integrated with third-party backup and archiving software products and appliances. Nirvanix has over 1,200 global customers from SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.

History

Streamload, founded in 1998 in San Diego, California by Steve Iverson (an Ernst & Young's entrepreneur-of-the-year award finalist), was one of the first Internet storage services, receiving various accolades for innovative products between 2002 and 2006[3][4][5]. The company attracted angel investor and computer software entrepreneur Charlie Jackson and $1.2m in investment by August 2004[6].

Nirvanix and MediaMax (subsequently The Linkup) were spun off from Streamload on 1 July 2007 [7][8]. Nirvanix Inc. was conceived by founders Patrick Harr and Geoff Tudor to pursue the storage-as-a-service market for the enterprise. A new Nirvanix system, called the Storage Delivery Network, was built from the ground up with completely new software and hardware systems. Nirvanix incorporated both the lessons-learned of operating a large-scale online storage service under Streamload as well as the latest techniques in clustering, virtualization, database-driven file system architectures and distributed networking. Nirvanix filed nine patents on this new platform in August 2007 and launched its award-winning, Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network, now referred to as Cloud Storage Network, in October 2007.

The company has raised $40M in capital funding from Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures, and European Founders Fund (investors in FaceBook, LinkedIn and others) to further technology advancements and to accelerate its global build-out of storage nodes to meet swelling worldwide demand for cloud storage service.[9].

Corporate Affairs

Scott Genereux was appointed President and CEO of Nirvanix in November 2010[10]. Since then the company has overhauled its management team[11] and signed a number of partners, including a 5-year OEM agreement with IBM[12]. Nirvanix has also deployed petabyte-scale clouds [13]at Cerner[14], USC[15], and others.

Products

Nirvanix provides a choice of public, hybrid, and private cloud storage service options. The underlying technology includes:

  • Cloud File System, a virtual file system specifically designed to handle millions of users and billions of files in a single global namespace with data consistency.
  • Cloud Storage Network which consists of nine globally dispersed carrier-class data centers. Customers can locate data close to users and to choose redundancy levels by replicating data to two, three, or more data centers.
  • Cloud NAS Gateway software which installs on Windows or Linux servers and provides access to the Nirvanix cloud storage services.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nirvanix Takes Another Step Toward Becoming the De Facto Standard in Enterprise Cloud Storage". DCIG. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Nirvanix Takes Another Step Toward Becoming the De Facto Standard in Enterprise Cloud Storage". DCIG. Retrieved 202-02-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. ^ And the Award for Online Video Sharing Goes to... Streamload MediaMax
  4. ^ PC Magazine Best of Show
  5. ^ HostReview Online Storage Services Awards
  6. ^ Streamload/MediaMax/TheLinkup death spiral dogs Nirvanix
  7. ^ MediaMax/TheLinkup Closes Its Doors
  8. ^ MediaMax/TheLinkup death spiral dogs Nirvanix
  9. ^ Intel Takes Stake In Amazon S3 Competitor Nirvanix
  10. ^ "Goodbye QLogic, hello Nirvanix". Network World. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  11. ^ "Reflections on 2011: Nirvanix's Management Moves Pay Off". ESG. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  12. ^ "IBM Global Services Picks Nirvanix for Cloud Storage". TechTarget. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  13. ^ "Nirvanix: An Appetite for Petabyte-scale Clouds". Taneja Group. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  14. ^ "Nirvanix + IBM + Cerner = Enterprise Cloud Storage Validated". INI Group. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  15. ^ "The Gmail of Archives: How USC is Turning IT Costs into Online Profits". Wikibon. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  16. ^ Nirvanix Claims 200 Percent Faster Downloads than Amazon S3

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