Cloud providers pounce on crippled Nirvanix customers

Grazed from FierceEnterpriseCommunications.  Author: David Weldon.

The Google search results say it all:

… Nirvanix is Closing–Call the Pros at Savvis Today

… Nirvanix Out of Business? Try Egnyte Enterprise Cloud Storage

… CloudBerry Explorer Allows Moving Data Off of Nirvanix

… Nirvanix cloud collapse seen as a canary in the coal mine for IaaS

… After Nirvanix: How to assess the right cloud provider for you

Clearly, the smell of blood is in the water. With the sudden word that Nirvanix is closing up shop, a host of other cloud service providers are hoping to cash in and grab Nirvanix’s retreating customers.   Last week, San Jose, Calif.-based Nirvanix caught the industry by surprise when it announced it was shutting down its cloud services. It told customers to immediately seek a new cloud service provider to host their data and to put no more data on its servers in the meantime…


Nirvanix has been tight-lipped since, but according to the company website, it was started in 2007 and has received $70 million in investments since then. Hard times have apparently befallen the company for some time, however, as a series of top executive departures have been reported.  "Nirvanix has told customers they must stop replicating data to its cloud service and download any data they wish to save by Oct. 15, although it still hasn’t made a public statement or changed any of the marketing or other information on its website," Charles Babcock noted in Information Week…

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