Nirvanix, Ocarina Join Forces to Bring the Industry's First Optimized Storage Offering to the Cloud
Nirvanix CloudNAS Earns 'Ocarina Optimized' Certification, Now Delivers Content-Aware Deduplication to Customers Seeking Lower Cost and Throughput Gains
San Diego, April 6, 2009 – Nirvanix, the premier enterprise Cloud Storage service provider, today announced that its CloudNAS™ enterprise-class storage software has been certified as "Ocarina Optimized." This designation indicates that Ocarina has conducted extensive testing and integration efforts to ensure its solution is optimized for the Nirvanix platform.
Ultimately, the certification means that Ocarina and Nirvanix can immediately offer capacity-optimized storage products that deliver additional cost savings and improved throughput to customers looking to leverage content-aware compression and object deduplication as part of an overall Cloud Storage solution.
CloudNAS is a software-only NAS solution offering enhanced secure data transfers to any of Nirvanix's globally distributed storage nodes via CIFS or NFS. The application enables organizations to integrate Cloud Storage into their existing storage processes offering globally accessible, scalable storage within minutes. By selecting Nirvanix "Ocarina Optimized" solutions, organizations can further reduce their costs while optimizing transfers of large data sets to the Cloud. Ocarina's patented three-step ECOsystem – Extract, Correlate and Optimize – is the world's first content-aware optimization technology to deliver up to a 10-to-1 reduction in the size of files, such as MS Office documents, PDFs, ZIPs, and rich media, that are driving the growth of online storage.
"Cloud vendors provide dramatic cost and management advantages over in-house infrastructure by deploying industry-leading technologies." said Dave Withers, VP Strategic Markets and Business Development of Ocarina Networks. "The addition of content aware optimization enables organizations to achieve up to a 10X cost advantages over the already breakthrough economics of cloud storage. With this certification, Nirvanix clearly takes the lead in offering cloud storage to the enterprise."
Cloud Storage already offers a compelling price/performance benefit over in-house storage options. With costs measured by the amount of data under storage and the bandwidth to upload and download that information, moving less data to the Cloud can result in significant additional savings. Because deduplication eliminates recurring files before being archived and compresses existing files to their smallest size before transport, users can realize even greater savings when using data reduction technologies in conjunction with CloudNAS.
"Our mission is to work collaboratively with customers to architect cloud storage solutions that meet their needs," said Peter Pistek, Nirvanix Director of Product Management. "Certification of CloudNAS by Ocarina strengthens our ability to achieve this by adding best-in-class deduplication and compression to our toolset. The combined offering results in a significant reduction in the storage asset footprint, further reducing storage costs."
About Ocarina
Ocarina is a leader in online storage optimization solutions. Organizations of all sizes use Ocarina's content-aware optimization technology to reduce their storage footprint and achieve a ten-fold capacity increase on their current storage systems. Based in San Jose, Calif., Ocarina is privately-held and financed by leading investors JAFCO Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners. For more information, visit www.ocarinanetworks.com.
About Nirvanix
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Nirvanix is privately held and has raised more than $18 million in funding from world-class investors including Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures, and the European Founders Fund. Nirvanix has over 500 customers ranging from Internet startups to Fortune 10 organizations and include Arizona State University, Nero, and The Planet, among others.
For more information about the company and its services, visit www.nirvanix.com.