San Diego-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix has given its customers two weeks' notice to get anything they want to keep out of the company's cloud. According to a report by Information Age, Nirvanex executives told employees of the enterprise cloud storage company yesterday to warn customers that the service will be unplugged on September 30. Meanwhile, the company's UK-based partner, Aorta Cloud, is trying to rescue the service—or at least pick up some of its customers' data as Nirvanix vaporizes.
Nirvanix had previously raised $70 million in funding from investors, but the company's executives have reportedly told employees that Nirvanix has "gone to the wall" with that money. Steve Ampleford, the CEO of Aorta Cloud, told Information Age's Pete Swabey that he is seeking a new round of funding for Nirvanix. The company holds a number of patents around managing storage in the petabyte range, and Ampleford said he is trying to get customers interested in continuing their Nirvanix service to contact Aorta.
This wouldn't be the first time Nirvanix left users' data in the lurch. The company took over hosting the cloud storage service, The Linkup, in 2008. When MediaMax, the company behind The Linkup, went under in the midst of the migration, the company told users to download their data or it would be deleted; some of the migration was completed, but many users lost access to their data.