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Nirvanix Scrambles To Transfer Cloud Data Before Shutdown

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Nirvanix said it is providing "the resources we can" to assist its customers to return their data, or move their data to such services as IBM SoftLayer, Amazon S3, Google Storage or Microsoft Azure.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. Not IBM, HP, Accenture, Cisco, Salesforce.com or anybody else. They came from a different perspective. They have the mass retailer mentality of “stack ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap.&# Amazon changed our industry. Not Google.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. So we only had to raise $500,000 to get going and again hardware ate just over 10% of the round. Work it did.

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