IBM and Nirvanix Form Strategic Relationship for Enterprise Cloud Storage

IBM and Nirvanix recently announced the integration of cloud storage technology from Nirvanix as part of an expanded IBM SmartCloud Enterprise storage services portfolio available to customers worldwide.

With the integration of Nirvanix cloud storage technology, IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise storage services will provide customers with a solution designed to support billions of objects and exabytes of data to complement IBM's existing security-rich, virtual server environments in the cloud.

Under the terms of the OEM agreement between IBM and Nirvanix, IBM will include cloud storage technology from Nirvanix designed to enable customers to upload a file of any size from anywhere in the world and access it anywhere – as opposed to forcing customers to upload the same file multiple times in multiple geographic regions and imposing strict file size limitations. This is designed to provide customers with continuous access to data at multiple, redundant locations for optimal performance and business continuity.

IBM's new SmartCloud storage service is ideally suited for unstructured data such as documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, health records, images, audio and video files, and e-mail and text messages, as well as for storing objects in which data, metadata and index are all encapsulated as one blob. To help ensure prompt access to unstructured data and objects, each node within the IBM SmartCloud storage service knows what is stored in its neighboring nodes, essentially performing as a massive, cross-connected grid.

For a limited time, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise customers can participate in a pilot to experience the Nirvanix object storage capability at no charge. The pilot runs from October 12, 2011 to January 20, 2012. The last day to register is December 16, 2011.

To get started, please fill out the short informational survey. You must enter your SmartCloud Enterprise customer number.

Space is limited so sign up early!

More information is available by contacting scepilot@ibm.com