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posted on 10 June 2008 13:14

Nirvanix, the supplier of cloud storage services, has announced an enterprise offering for businesses with more than 5TB of data. It offers cost-savings, high availability woth 100 percent Service Level Agreements (SLA) and several ingestion methods.

Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN) for Enterprises offers:-

- A 50 - 90 percent saving on OPEX and CAPEX expenditures for archive and backup.
- Security and reliability with SSL, strong password authentication and de-identified physical file information prevents access to data without a three-step key. A 256-bit AES encryption client is offered as an application for additional security.
- High availability with automated file replication to multiple locations around the world ensures data is not vulnerable to a single point of failure.
- An up to a 100 percent SLA is available depending on business needs; an industry first.
- Versatile ingestion tools featuring an FTP Proxy, virtual CIFS/NFS drive mounts, an open API for custom applications and the ability to accommodate local ingestion requests.
- Enterprise-class support with direct access to Nirvanix 24 x 7.
- A maximum file size of 256 GB as opposed to the 5 GB maximum imposed by other competing cloud storage suppliers
- Integrated media processing functionality for image resizing and rotating, and audio and video transcoding, scaling and frame extraction.

Patrick Harr, Nirvanix’s CEO, said: “The ability to safely and efficiently store and archive large data sets without the time, complexity and costs of managing server hardware is an ideal situation for companies of any and all sizes. But, until now, the ability to deliver that solution to the largest customers remained elusive as many attempts at providing cloud storage to enterprises lacked the necessary services required in this unique market. With the peace of mind enabled by Nirvanix’s security and guaranteed reliability/availability, along with the industry’s only 100% SLA, enterprises can now store their archival data in the cloud without worry of outages or downtime.”

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}