Last week the Nirvanix team headed out to Palm Desert
to attended DEMO 08, a conference that focuses on emerging technologies and new
products. DEMO hand-selected the 77
companies that spoke at this year’s conference, and among those speakers was
our CEO, Patrick Harr. DEMO organizer Chris Shipley invited Patrick
to speak because she believed Nirvanix had a ground-breaking announcement, worthy of being heard by the sold-out DEMO audience.
If you haven’t already heard, Nirvanix’s DEMO announcement
included the recent expansion our Storage Delivery Network to include European
and Asian storage nodes, which enables the intelligent storage and movement of
files and guarantees the best end user experience on a global scale. Also
introduced were our new Media Services including transcoding, video frame
extraction, and image manipulation.
With these launches, Nirvanix continues to raise the bar for
premium storage services, especially in the user-generated content sector.
This latest launch once again proves our dedication to making integration and
management of scalable storage for user-generated
content driven applications headache-free.
In that vain, we announced audio and video transcoding, photo/video
thumbnail extraction, photo resizing, and the ever-so-handy integration of tag
and meta data search. Not only do these
new facets of the Nirvanix SDN allow for simple control, but most importantly, they
will help developers and business owners save valuable time and money. Just plug into the SDN and go!
Nirvanix is leading the pack in the outsource storage
movement, and eliminating the need for complicated software and cumbersome
storage devices, otherwise known as “boxes”.
The exp
ression 'The box is dead'
will be the moniker of 2008, as more services move to the cloud. So, not only did we announce network
additions and new functionality at DEMO, but we also announced the death of the
box. We thought there would be no better
person to help us kill the box than one of our valued and, apparently, most
aggressive customers: Michael Witz of FreeDrive. So we
armed Michael with a sledgehammer and he destroyed a server on stage at DEMO. The
Nirvanix team also created a video clip of Michael pummeling another box, which Byte and Switch called
“reminiscent of 1960s pop-art campus flicks”.
Check it out:
6-minute presentation by Patrick and Michael at DEMO 08—click
here.
6-minute interview with Patrick
Harr: The SDN explained— click here.
1- minute video of Michael smashing the a server. The Box is Dead--- click here.
To see all future events that Nirvanix will be attending,
and register to attend, please visit our News & Events page.
*Rachel Brown*
Nirvanix Marketing Associate