Nirvanix claims to have signed 300 customers for its Storage Delivery Network (SDN) in six months -- all to the battle cry of "The Box Is Dead!" Included are a series of companies that use Nirvanix storage as a backend to their own online storage services.
Like its archrival Amazon S3, Nirvanix charges a monthly fee for the amount of data stored on its hardware, which is accessed via the Web. Unlike Amazon S3, Nirvanix offers SLAs, which accounts for its slightly higher pricing of 18 cents per Gbyte per month for stored data, compared with Amazon's 15 cents per Gbyte. The SDN itself is a 2-Pbyte storage cluster spread across four "nodes" in U.S. collocation facilities.
Nirvanix has said it will add an additional eight clusters or more over the next 12 months, in an effort to bring its total network to as many as 15 nodes.
Can Nirvanix achieve its goals, even as Amazon S3 is joined by other storage-as-a-service providers, including Symantec and potentially EMC?
There are a couple of hopeful signs. Nirvanix is scrappy. Its Web site features a point-by-point matrix comparing its service to S3's. And Nirvanix PR responded gleefully to last week's S3 outage, claiming it could never have happened to Nirvanix.
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