DRFortress Selects Nirvanix

Nirvanix, Inc. announced that
DRFortress, Hawaii’s managed colocation
services provider, will deploy a Nirvanix Hybrid Cloud Storage solution and
offer consumption-based data backup and archival services across the Pacific Rim.

This pact expands Nirvanix’s addressable
market and positions DRFortress at the forefront of cloud storage service
delivery not only in Hawaii but also across the entire Pacific Rim region.
DRFortress represents the ninth datacenter now part of the global Nirvanix
Cloud Storage Network.

With a
Hybrid Cloud Storage node based in Honolulu, DRFortress can address the market demand from companies across the Pacific Rim to store
critical business data both locally in Hawaii and on the U.S. mainland, Asia
Pacific or Europe to facilitate enhanced business continuity and global data
collaboration strategies.

"As the first provider of enterprise-grade
object storage-based cloud services in Hawaii and the broader Pacific Rim
region, DRFortress has a significant competitive advantage as it enters this
market," said Scott Genereux, President and CEO of Nirvanix. "Nirvanix’s proven cloud storage and
DRFortress’ state-of-the-art datacenter and connectivity capabilities place
DRFortress in a highly strategic position to post material market share gains
in the coming year."

"While many vendors are talking about hybrid
clouds, Nirvanix is busy delivering them to customers," said Steve
Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "With recent customer wins at Cerner, USC and
IBM, this hybrid cloud deployment at DRFortress is another indicator that
Nirvanix continues to execute with its highly differentiated cloud storage
services."

With
Nirvanix’s battle-hardened, second generation technology, DRFortress will be
able to offer its clients enterprise cloud storage designed from the
ground up for five nines of data availability and capable of supporting
millions of users, billions of objects and exabytes of data. Nirvanix Hybrid
Cloud Storage is a private, local instantiation of a cloud storage node on
DRFortress’ carrier-class datacenter premises that also enables instantaneous
cloud bursting-the ability to access and replicate to the eight other nodes
that comprise the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network-for additional capacity,
bandwidth and enhanced availability. The Hybrid node will be managed as a
service by Nirvanix and clients of DRFortress will pay for storage that
they actually consume, in a pay-as-you-go usage model.

"We believe that there is a billion dollar
market opportunity for enterprise-grade cloud storage services in the Pacific
Rim region by 2015 as customers look to reduce capital expenditures and move
off of antiquated storage systems to modernize their backup and archival needs,"
said Fred Rodi, President of DRFortress. "With the new DRFortress Cloud Storage Services, powered by Nirvanix, we
are expanding our managed services portfolio with the recognized
industry-leading solution, as recently validated by the world’s largest IT
services company. We also look forward to collaborating with Nirvanix’s
partners such as CommVault and Symantec to provide our customers with ‘one
click to the cloud’ access to our managed services."

Using
DRFortress’ services, customers can maintain multiple live replicas of
their data in multiple locations of their choice to satisfy both in-country and
out-of-region data retention and compliance requirements. In addition,
Nirvanix’s secure, highly granular multi-tenancy software enables DRFortress
customers to create a sub-account for each branch office, equip each office with
its own user name and password, and provide direction on where in the cloud storage network the data is to reside.