Nirvanix Brings Storage From the Moon to the Cloud With Successful Launch of Lunar...

Nirvanix Brings Storage From the Moon to the Cloud With Successful Launch of
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Comprehensive imagery data from onboard cameras providing deeper understanding
of the moon and its environment to be copied to CloudNAS-based solution

SAN DIEGO, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- An Atlas V 401 rocket carrying two lunar
satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:32
p.m. EDT on June 18th in what is being described as America's first step to
the lasting return to the moon. One of the satellites, the Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), will begin to provide high-definition imagery of
the moon once in orbit with a copy of all data stored on the Nirvanix Storage
Delivery Network(TM) via CloudNAS(R), a software based gateway to secure
enterprise cloud storage.

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After a four-day trip, the LRO will begin orbiting the moon, spending at least
a year in a low polar orbit collecting detailed information about the lunar
environment that will help in future robotic and human missions to the moon.
Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera will be transmitted from
the satellite to a project team at Arizona State University for systematic
processing, replicated to secondary high-performance storage in a separate
building at ASU and then replicated to the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network
(SDN(TM)). Nirvanix provides a method for storing a tertiary copy of the data
offsite by installing CloudNAS and writing a copy directly from the
data-receiving servers. ASU and NASA have already transferred multiple TBs of
original Apollo mission imagery to the Nirvanix CloudNAS-based solution.

"While this project may be one small step for NASA's program to extend human
presence in the solar system, it definitely represents a giant leap in cloud
storage's ability to provide a reliable, scalable and accessible alternative
to tape for long-term retention of enterprise-class data," said Jim Zierick,
President and CEO of Nirvanix. "The tertiary copy of images from the LRO
Camera stored on the Nirvanix CloudNAS is online and accessible within seconds
and the project managers at ASU do not need to worry about managing offsite
storage, allowing them to focus on the more important mission at hand. We are
pleased to be part of such a historic project and value our contribution to
finding a deeper understanding of the moon and its environment."

Nirvanix CloudNAS is a fast, secure and easy way to gain access to the
benefits of Cloud Storage. As the world's first software-only NAS solution
accessible via CIFS or NFS, CloudNAS offers enhanced secure data transfers to
any of Nirvanix's globally distributed storage nodes using integrated AES
256-bit encryption and SSL options. Through the Nirvanix CloudNAS,
organizations have access to unlimited storage via the Nirvanix Storage
Delivery Network with the ability to turn any server on their network into a
gateway to the cloud accessible by many existing applications and processes.

About Nirvanix
Nirvanix (www.nirvanix.com) is the market leader in enterprise cloud storage
and offers a fully managed cloud storage service designed from the ground up
for the enterprise. 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 include 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 and SDN 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