Nirvanix raises $12,000,000

Nirvanix, Inc, provider of the first storage delivery service optimized for media applications, has closed a $12 million equity financing round  Nirvanix was founded by a team of storage and content delivery veterans from EMC, Brocade, McDATA, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, and Yahoo who recognized the need for a scalable storage service that would power the backbone of web applications and services. The Nirvanix service has been built from the ground up to support Internet-scale media storage requirements and to remove the barriers of managing and storing billions of files for millions of users.  “Nirvanix has a tremendous clustered file system architecture that delivers breakthrough performance and global scalability for media-focused business and their millions of users,” said Charles Curran, General Partner of Valhalla Partners.