socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2009

San Diego-based Nirvanix has hired on a storage veteran as VP of Sales, saying today that Joseph Lyons has joined the firm. Lyon joins the company from Brocade Communications, where he was Director of Services Sales for the Americas. The venture-backed firm competes against Amazon's S3 storage services. READ MORE>>.

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Sales S3 San Diego Networking 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Genereux was most recently at Nirvanix, where he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. Prior to QLogic, Genereux was at DataDirect Networks (DDN), also serving as VP Sales, Marketing, and Support, and has previously served at Hitachi Data Systems. READ MORE>>.

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Windward S3 Mission Ventures San Diego 153

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. First company built on top of EMC, Unix servers, field sales to large clients. 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.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343