socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
San Diego-based cloud storage firm Nirvanix is shutting down, and has given its customers only two weeks to move their data elsewhere, in a stunning flameout for the venture backed startup. The company seemed to be on the upswing, with a long list of high profile customers; the company had even hired Zynga''s CIO earlier this year.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
San Diego-based cloud storage company Nirvanix has officially shut down its service, saying in a posting on its website that it is actively winding down its business, and is scrambling to transfer data on the cloud storage service to other providers.
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socalTECH
JANUARY 29, 2013
The company said it is offering up a 100GB and 100GB bandwidth, 30-day trial for the service, which is also compatible with Amazon S3's APIs. DreamObjects said it now has thousands of users using the service, which costs a low 7 cents per GB of storage, with 7 cents per GB of transfer-out bandwidth. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
MAY 6, 2013
IDrive--which is run by Pro Softnet--said that it has just passed 2 million, online user accounts, and has backed up around 400 million smartphone contact records for its customers. The company said it increased its staff by a third last year. READ MORE>>. softnet angeles hiring sync backup service cloud idrive'
SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Interestingly it was same developers in both companies.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 3, 2010
Current round: $3mm in Series B by betaworks (lead)(largest investor in company), Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, Howard Lindzon. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Company still in beta. Competes with Seesmic , HootSuite , Brizzly.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others.
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