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Nirvanix Shuts Down, Gives Mere Two Weeks To Customers

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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.

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Report: Ring's Gave Unfettered Access To Cameras To Employees

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The Intercept reports that, among other things, Ring provided its employees with "virtually unfettered access" to a folder on Amazon's S3 cloud storage service that contained every video created by every Ring camera around the world, and that it allowed Ring executives and engineers to access unfiltered, round-the-clock access to customer cameras--regardless (..)

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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. Nirvanix did not detail the reasons for the rapid shutdown of the service, which was first announced to customers two weeks ago.

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DreamHost Debuts Public Cloud Storage Service Into GA

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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>>.

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IDrive: We're The Biggest Cloud Service In LA You've Never Heard Of

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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. READ MORE>>. softnet angeles hiring sync backup service cloud idrive'

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Nirvanix Powers Ooyala

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According to Nirvanix, Ooyala is using Nirvanix to help its customers store and manage HD-quality video. The firm charges by bandwidth and amount of storage, and competes against Amazon's S3 service. Financial impact of the partnership was not disclosed.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform. I would tend to agree.

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