Nirvanix and Twinstrata Associated in Cloud Storage Starter Kit

Nirvanix Inc. and TwinStrata Inc. announced a pre-tested, integrated cloud storage starter kit that combines 50TB of Nirvanix cloud storage with TwinStrata’s enterprise CloudArray to provide a solution for a single annual rate of $48K all-inclusive.

The cloud starter kit provides the infrastructure enterprise customers need for backup, archiving and collaboration in one solution, under one integrated set of SLAs and is available through Nirvanix channel partners and direct sales worldwide.

As more customers experience superior economics and improved business agility by including cloud storage in their IT strategy, a growing number of organizations are seeking to capitalize on those same benefits.

The introduction of a pre-packaged solution for the enterprise from Nirvanix and TwinStrata targets four key requirements identified by organizations:

• Affordability
  Customers are looking for cost savings from cloud storage; the Nirvanix – CloudArray provides customers cloud storage at an affordable annual rate with no additional fees.
• Simplicity
  IT departments are seeking to simplify and streamline their environments. It ensures that cloud storage is easier to implement than conventional storage systems by using familiar iSCSI protocols and integrating with the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network , Hybrid Cloud Storage and Private Cloud Storage services.
• Performance
  The complete solution comes with 12TB of high-performance and dynamic on-site cache to ensure response rates are equivalent to local performance for the frequently accessed data sets.
• Security
  Nirvanix already provides military-grade, multi-level security at the user, data storage and physical data center levels. The complete solution also includes TwinStrata’s at-rest and in-flight encryption, local key management and volume access control for greater assurance.

Enterprises benefit from a single vendor solution and not having to deal with the maintenance headaches and the technology refresh cycles and data migration that plagues all conventional storage systems reaching their end of life.

"Our customers have been asking for enterprise-grade cloud storage solutions that they can implement easily, affordably and quickly," said Nicos Vekiarides, CEO, TwinStrata. "Nirvanix has proven repeatedly that it easily supports the robust, multi-petabyte cloud storage environments that our enterprise customers demand. This Nirvanix-TwinStrata pre-packed solution gives those enterprises everything they need at a simple, flat annual rate, making cloud storage for businesses more convenient than ever."

"Companies across a multitude of industry verticals are looking to reap the benefits of cloud storage as quickly as possible," said Scott Genereux, president and CEO, Nirvanix. "Our experience with large-scale, global cloud storage deployments as well as our in-house tests confirm that TwinStrata CloudArray repeatedly shows itself to be a highly intuitive enterprise-class product. This bundled solution offers our joint customers an avenue to quickly, cost-effectively, and securely incorporate cloud storage into their global strategy."