Nirvanix SaaS Storage goes beta

By Vivek | October 12th, 2007 at 09:09 pm ET         

Competing with Amazon, the next generation storage and content delivery platform Nirvanix is looking to play the buzz game right. Just last month the startup had announced it’s coming out of stealth mode and today Nirvanix announced beta availability of its integrated media transcoding, image manipulation, and file search services.

For brief overview of the core features available at the storage platform - Webservices enabled Internet Media File System backed by dynamic load balancing for peak performance; intelligent uploading/downloading to accelerate access; clustered architecture for enhanced data protection; global namespace for unlimited scalability; Media Transcoding and Image Manipulation capabilities.

Nirvanix has also added couple of interesting new features it’s core set, which include - File Search and Sideloading. Using the File Search API, developers can enable their users to search for files based on file system, metadata, or tag information. Since Nirvanix is geared more towards media files including photos and videos, this type of file search might not work out pretty well for developers looking to enable full text search on office documents or even text files.

Another smart feature that we have not written about before is Sideloading. Imagine viewing a Youtube video that you want to download and store it to your online storage system. Right now you first need to get the file to your local machine and then send up to the online storage space. Not a convenient process, to say the least, that also uses bandwidth twice. With Nirvanix’s Sideloading feature, developers can enable file uploads to Nirvanix system directly from a hosted URL.

With this beta launch, Nirvanix is also claiming to have successfully tested at more than 80 beta customer sites. Let’s see which startup becomes biggest in town backed by Nirvanix’s SaaS storage.