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hopefully jim zierick plans on firing all the crooks that were there!!!

if you were a friend of patricks you were paid way too much and put in a position three grades higher than you previously ever had. now of course youre being laid off but with 3 months severance. if you were a highly paid engineer you got 1 months severance. or if you made less than 75k per year and the money really matters you got 2 weeks severance. thanks. what a bunch of assholes. stay classy nirvanix.

harr consistently lied to us, the board, customers and on sales calls but still couldnt make any sales – probably one of many reasons they finally decided to fire him. revenue is still virtually non existant.

the company has about 6 months left before they are out of money. but i think the vcs just may be stupid enough to put more money into this sinking ship.

and yes nirvanix recently discovered that as many as 8000 customer files are corrupt. this is the THIRD major data loss at nirvanix. we had not met our own sla a single week i worked there.

What is clear at this moment? The problems at mediamax are still not solved. See also mediamaxusers.blogspot for this. I don’t see a reason why they cannot come out with their story. Nirvanix is live so why the incomplete information?

Nirvanix has opened its doors today – it’s basically the same thing Amazon S3’s does, similiar pricing, but way more importantly – they have a SLA, which Amazon hasn’t delivered so far.
It also features a SOAP & REST-based API, …

Streamload is MediaMax. Steve was president, then they brought in Harr. During this time, they were working behind the scenes to create Nirvanix. Steve during this time was MediaMax’s CTO.

When Nirvanix finally got funding, Harr stepped down to take over the “new” company and Steve became president again.

Sources report that Harr is not the only staff to go from MediaMax to Nirvanix, but I cannot get either side to confirm this. If I were Nirvanix, I wouldn’t want to be associated with MediaMax, either.

As for you saying that the issues with MediaMax are separate, on the official MediaMax blog post HERE, “Team MediaMax” says that:

In regards to MediaMax’s problems mentioned in the TechCrunch article, this was only partially related to the spin-out process.

This is their admission that, yes, our “spin out” of Nirvanix was “partially” to blame for all the hell they’ve put their users through over the past year. They admit this, and they’ve admitted the shared staff, etc.

Again, these statements aren’t in debate – they come directly from official MediaMax and Nirvanix press releases, blogs, and interviews.

I encourage anyone who doesn’t believe me – do a little surfing, read the words directly from their mouths. They certainly refuse to come right out and say what the “affiliation” is between the 2 companies, but their combined statements tell the story. And they DO confess they are “affiliated” – just not saying in what way.

For crying out loud – their offices are less than a block away from each other (600 B St vs 525 B St, San Diego.) Check the facts, people. Do your own research – you’ll find the truth.

It has the same president. It has, by some accounts, 50% of the same staff. It was STARTED by MediaMax, for crying out loud.

Steve Iverson even ADMITS these facts. They aren’t in dispute.

Do some research, investigate the HELL MediaMax has put it’s users through for the past year, and then decide if you want to truth them with your data.

One feature people have been asking for since S3’s inception: moving/renaming/copying files in S3 without having to download and re-upload.

I work for Nirvanix and we don’t charge for PUTS/GETS or other requests. Our pricing is $0.18 per GB/month (based on daily average) and $0.18 per GB bandwidth (up/down). Some of our advantages over S3 are:

- Media clustered file system available for file system calls – move, copy, rename, delete, etc
- Advanced media services – large file support up to 256GB, transcoding, image manipulation, etc
- Parent/child account mgmt

You can sign up for a trial account (no cc required) at: http://www.nirv...ingStarted.aspx.

Aj

One thing I don’t see is the cost for GET requests.

Amazon charges 0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests and it’s not insignificant if you are using them as for distribution (like me).

chances are amazon has higher actual uptimes and response times. only an idiot would take the nirvanix SLA to have any meaning.

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I know of one: http://www.coutorture.com

They use it to deal with high volume periods (fashion week and the like.)

s3 and nirvanix look good for several apps we have underway now.

are there case studies – informal or otherwise – even user anecdotes re the hows and wheres people are putting this to use beyond ’simple’ backup and storage? anyone using these for production web apps on any scale?

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Jungle disk is basically a file transfer application similar to that of an http://FTP., it’s currently limited to Amazon’s S3 service.

ElasticDrive enables actual formating of multiple geographically disperse storage resources to act like a local hard drive. ElasticDrive supports most modern filesystems including EXT3, XFS, JFS, ZFS etc as well as the ability to provide blocklevel snapshots for infinite rollback/versioning. This is handy in a lot of enterprise contexts where a native file system is easier to use then trying to re-architect your app to fit the confines of a web service call.

Also, files can be written to several remote locations simultaneously (S3, Nirvanix and your own storage).

The cool thing about nirvanix, we can target specific geographical regions, so lets say an office in London may have access to the local data center, where an office in China get the Asian data center.

See http://www.Elasticdrive.com

The Nirvanix service looks great! The integrated video transcoding and thumbnail generation is pretty cool too.”

I can only speak from my experiences. AT&T put on a dog and pony show one time for us trying to get business and they bragged about SLA’s. “We will pay YOU if you ever have downtime!”

Sounds great. However, when we asked “How much will you pay us? Your hourly rate our ours?”

They got quiet.

See, it’s easy to say you have an SLA. But if your business averages $5000 per hour in sales and Nirvanix is down for 5 hours, how much would they pay you??? Or, would they just give you a few gigs for free?

So any of you honestly going to jump over because of three little letters? SLA

SLA? blah…worthless.
cbmeeks