Brocade Builds Nirvanix Backbone

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- To support rapid growth and extremely high data ingestion rates, Nirvanix, the industry leader in multi-petabyte cloud storage deployments, has selected Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) Ethernet and Fibre Channel fabric-based networking solutions as its core infrastructure across multiple globally dispersed data centers. With the Brocade® data networking backbone supporting large-scale public, hybrid and private cloud storage deployments, Nirvanix customers will benefit from faster performance when they are moving and accessing data anywhere in the cloud.

Nirvanix is the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services designed specifically for customers that demand extreme security, reliability and redundancy. Under its CloudComplete™ portfolio, the company offers variable cloud storage deployment options, including fully managed public, hybrid and private cloud storage services with usage-based pricing to meet the unique business needs of each customer. The company's patented Nirvanix Cloud File System™ is specifically architected for business-critical, enterprise data and is in use by leading corporations such as Fox Networks, National Geographic, Cerner Corp., Relativity Media and the USC Digital Repository, among other Fortune Global 500 companies.

The Nirvanix Cloud File System enables all files to be presented as one large global namespace, accessible from any location with immediate data consistency and replication based on policy. The system is designed for millions of users and billions of files -- more than enough to store 200 million images and scanned records from a single healthcare provider, for example. Nirvanix cloud storage services are architected from the ground up for massive unstructured content files -- terabyte-plus file sizes -- that are prevalent in the healthcare, media and entertainment, finance, biotech and IT industries, among other verticals.

Nirvanix Inc.