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posted on 01 July 2008 13:18

Combine Nirvanix' storage-in-the-cloud offering with an Atempo archiving front-end and you have a virtually infinite archive in the sky. That's what Atempo and Nirvanix have accomplished.

Karim Toubba, marketing and product management VP at Atempo, said: “Atempo Digital Archive’s integration with the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network ... marks a significant step for the industry overall."

Atempo and Nirvanix have announced the full integration of Atempo Digital Archive (ADA) with the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN). This is the world’s first file archiving software to seamlessly identify, link and move archive files from the enterprise out into cloud storage. Mid-size and large organizations that select ADA’s cloud storage option retain the software’s features, while benefiting from the security, flexibility and economic advantages offered by Nirvanix’s SDN.

They will have at their disposal a virtual and infinite “archival disk drive in the clouds” that is fully integrated with the software and is as interoperable as any Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device.

Conicidentally - not! - Nirvanix has just added a NAS interface to its SDN cloud service.

ADA provides file de-duplication, full content indexing and search, and a utility that identifies inactive content ready for archive.

Edgard Capdevielle, VP for business development at Nirvanix, said: “Atempo customers who select this cloud storage option ... can save between 50-90 percent of their current data center infrastructure costs by relying on our secure SDN rather than operating and maintaining their own storage media. Also, instead of having a flat service fee, Atempo customers will only pay for the amount of cloud storage space used on a monthly basis.”

The two companies claim that the flexibility of Nirvanix’s SDN ensures that ADA end-users have fast file transfer rates and constant access to valuable archived data – access that is especially critical for eDiscovery and compliance purposes.

With globally distributed storage nodes that provide worldwide coverage, the SDN delivers a consistent user experience anywhere in the world. ADA customers who have disaster avoidance policies can have up to three live, geographically disparate copies of their data available.

Nirvanix is rapidly building out its cloud storage service. Can we look forward to a cloud-based virtual tape library?

^{[Chris Mellor.]}