… Nirvanix Signs Big OEM Deal With Big Blue

IBM Corp. announced the integration of
cloud storage technology from Nirvanix, Inc.
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 millions of users, 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.

"Nirvanix’s cloud storage services
offer the advanced, production-grade cloud storage capabilities that are built
on experience with hundreds of enterprises," said Jan Jackman, Vice
President, Global Cloud Services, IBM. "The company’s presence and strong adoption in leading Fortune 500
corporations makes its cloud storage technology ideally suited to IBM’s global
customer base."

"We look forward to teaming with IBM
in the enterprise cloud storage space and cooperatively enhancing our leading
cloud storage service for the most demanding IBM global customers,"
said Scott Genereux, President and CEO of Nirvanix. "Today’s announcement marks an important step in accomplishing
Nirvanix’s strategic goals of capturing cloud storage market share and
accelerating revenue growth."

IBM’s new SmartCloud storage service is 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.

The IBM SmartCloud storage service is particularly suited for industry-specific
data, such as:

• Media and Entertainment: content that
  must be shared across data centers, cities, states or countries – for
  distributed content creation and production collaboration.
• Healthcare: data that must be retained
  for regulatory compliance and the protection and security of personally
  identifiable healthcare information (PIHI)
• Financial Services: infrequently
  accessed unstructured content, such as backup data, archival data, and any data
  that resides on tape