Uses: Storage Intensive Web 2.0 Applications

In the highly competitive start-up industry, time to market and user experience is crucial for business looking to gain traction. Success is based on the ability to provide social applications that can handle the load associated with viral distribution in a cost effective way. Investing in storage infrastructure is simply not possible due to cash and resource constraints. Companies often use insufficient web hosting packages that provide storage and either over pay in the hopes that their application will do well or don’t subscribe to a sufficient storage package and are charged extremely high overage fees or worse yet denied service.

Web 2.0 applications are also gaining traction within Enterprises where innovative companies are applying social applications and streamlining the exchange of information and work flow processes. In this environment the ability to test, develop and deploy solutions with very little upfront investment is important. Once an application is deployed global reach, data availability and security become the gating issues.

Companies and developers can use existing “simple” online storage solutions such as Amazon S3, however these solutions lack true file system functionality and global load balancing. More importantly these services don’t offer data replication policies that allow for up to 3 geographically dispersed copies offering Enterprises an unparalleled level of security and data availability.

Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN) vs. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

The Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network now makes enterprise-grade, global storage of file sizes up to 256 gigabytes within reach of every cash-strapped start-up to resource constrained department. The Nirvanix Web Services API also enables access via any Internet connected application or device offering integrated file system functionality and child account management that make developing truly “simple” (well at least more simple).

Features & Benefits

• Unlimited storage on demand worldwide
• Largest file size accommodation in the market; up to 256 gigabytes
• A Internet based file system that with directories/sub-directories, & move/copy/delete calls
• Integrated complete media transcoding services available through the API
• Intelligent and global load balanced across North America, Europe, Asia
• Standards based API (SOAP/REST) over HTTP or HTTPS
• Global load balanced network auto detects optimal local for uploads and downloads for best application and user experience