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| FreeDrive Chooses the Nirvanix Storage Platform Nirvanix announces that FreeDrive has selected, implemented and now officially launched its service using Nirvanix's Storage Delivery Network, a global online storage platform optimized for media applications. FreeDrive is a personal online storage and file sharing application that works across social networks. With today's announcement, FreeDrive is now available first as a Facebook application enabling its registered users to host and share photos, videos, music and documents among their existing Facebook friends and groups. FreeDrive has exited its beta period with over 100,000 users and is expected to register another one million users conservatively over the next six months. FreeDrive offers customers 1 GB of free storage that serves as an Internet hard drive while providing online access to files that can then be linked and posted to Facebook. Prior to partnering with Nirvanix, FreeDrive hosted, stored and delivered these files in a Tier-1 co-location site on hardware they had to purchase, maintain and service. The costs associated with purchasing storage commensurate to their growth forecasts and managing the storage became prohibitive and stifled the company's aggressive expansion plans so FreeDrive looked into other options. Another factor that led FreeDrive to choose Nirvanix was its ability to allow a direct connection to user files from the application. Amazon S3 holds data but transfers that information to the company, which then has to serve it to the application, Witz said, amounting to being charged for bandwidth twice. Nirvanix provides a platform for developers and businesses to integrate secure web based storage and delivery into any application. The Nirvanix SDN addresses the challenges associated with the explosive growth of user-generated content and the corresponding demand for storage. The platform, powered by the patent-pending Internet Media File System (IMFS), empowers developers with a powerful, yet affordable solution for storing and distributing user-generated content and other digital media. It provides dynamic load balancing for peak performance; intelligent uploading/downloading to accelerate access; clustered architecture for enhanced data protection; and global namespace for unlimited scalability. The platform is fully redundant in every layer of its infrastructure, includes RAID-6 data protection, is supported by 24/7 operations, and comes with the industry's only guaranteed service level agreement. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Networking News :: home page |