Nirvanix Adds Chris Russell as Vice President of Engineering

Technology executive with two decades of IT experience in the media industry
to head development of the company's Storage Delivery Network

SAN DIEGO, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Nirvanix, the premier enterprise Cloud
Storage service provider, today announced that it has hired Chris Russell, a
longtime technology executive with extensive knowledge of IT in the motion
picture and television industries, as its Vice President of Engineering. He
reports directly to Nirvanix President and CEO Jim Zierick.

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Russell has over two decades of executive hands-on technology experience at
digital media and entertainment companies providing engineering and product
development leadership for a wide range of software and service offerings. In
his post of Vice President of Engineering at Nirvanix he will help continue
Nirvanix's success in providing a secure, scalable and efficient service for
enterprises looking to preserve valuable data offsite, optimize their storage
tiers, or enable collaboration within asset management or
software-as-a-service applications.

He comes to Nirvanix from NextEngine, where as Vice President of Technology,
he led all engineering and go-to-market activities for the company that
produces hardware and software for 3-D digital scanning. Prior to NextEngine,
he served as Chief Technology Officer and a General Manager of DivX Inc. where
he helped analyze and direct the company's technology, business and corporate
strategies. There he led the development of all the company's products,
including hardware and software for digital video encoding, playback, online
movie storefronts, media management, community websites and digital rights
management. He was also part of the senior management team responsible for
strategic planning, operations and corporate development.

Russell has also served as the Vice President of Internet Standards and
Technology for the Motion Picture Association of America, Vice President of
Technology at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Director of Software Engineering at
Sony Pictures Imageworks and Technical Director and Lead Software Engineer at
VIFX. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Cal Poly
Pomona and a Masters of Business Administration from Pepperdine University.

"We are extremely pleased to add someone with the talent and experience that
Chris possesses to our management team at Nirvanix," said Zierick. "His
extensive background and years of experience within the entertainment industry
will give us valuable insight into solving the business needs of one of our
fastest growing industry segments. We have been very fortunate as of late to
have had the opportunity to recruit an extremely knowledgeable and motivated
executive group and we anticipate further extending the reach of our Storage
Delivery Network to a variety of enterprises needing better flexibility and
optimization of their storage infrastructure."

About Nirvanix
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Nirvanix is privately held and has
raised more than $23 million in funding from world-class investors including
Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures, and the
European Founders Fund. Nirvanix has over 500 customers ranging from Internet
startups to Fortune 10 organizations and includes Arizona State University,
Nero and The Planet, among others.

For more information about the company and its services, visit
www.nirvanix.com.

Nirvanix, Storage Delivery Network, SDN and Experiencing Nirvanix are
trademarks of Nirvanix. All others are trademarks or trade names of their
respective owners.

Nirvanix Contact: Contact Agency:
Adrian J. Herrera Judy Smith
Senior Director, Marketing JPR Communications
619.764.5650 ext. 306 818.884.8282
adrian.herrera@nirvanix.com judys@jprcom.com

SOURCE Nirvanix

Adrian J. Herrera, Senior Director, Marketing of Nirvanix, +1-619-764-5650,
ext. 306, adrian.herrera@nirvanix.com; or Judy Smith of JPR Communications,
+1-818-884-8282, judys@jprcom.com, for Nirvanix