[March 15, 2012] National Geographic Moves to Nirvanix Cloud for Digital Archival Tweet Mar 15, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Nirvanix announced that the National Geographic Society has moved its backup and archival of unstructured multi-media files to the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network to gain the economic and on-demand agility benefits that the cloud brings. "Given the growth of our unstructured content files, we had to find an alternative to the traditional approach of continually buying physical storage capacity for our archival needs," said Dan Backer, Director of Infrastructure Systems, National Geographic Society, in a release. "The Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network gives us the on-demand scalability and bandwidth we need to back up and archive our massive digital content with a true pay-by-the-drink model. Most importantly, we can be sure that our data is continuously accessible by keeping multiple live replicas in the cloud in multiple geo-diverse locations." Using the Nirvanix CloudNAS Gateway, National Geographic is able to encrypt data both in flight and at rest and securely transfer data to any of Nirvanix's eight globally distributed cloud storage data centers. "National Geographic continues to be a visionary and a thought leader in its use of the latest business-enabling information technology," said Scott Genereux, President and CEO of Nirvanix. "Cloud storage services truly empower IT organizations to think and work differently to achieve strategic business goals. If you don't have to be in the continual churn of buying, installing and refreshing technology and migrating at hardware end-of-life, you can certainly be more strategic and more effective in supporting the overall organization." TheNational Geographic Societyis a nonprofit scientific and educational organization. Nirvanix is a provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]