Rumors about the cloud-computing company Nirvanix closing is finally confirmed on a letter posted in its website Saturday night. After seven years of serving customers, the same customers have only two weeks to find another provider.
It was previously reported by Information Age that Nirvanix will be going dark by Sept. 30 based on a letter sent to its customers. However, with such an early notice it realized that the customers need more time to switch thus extending the closure to mid-October.
Nirvanix officially closing is a blow for its customers as it is such a credible cloud storage provider and can compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS) although the latter is still a better option.
The San Diego-based company has received funding from various companies since 2007. It got $12 million from Valhalla Partners and Windward Ventures, $5 million from Intel Capital, $25 million from Khosla Ventures, and more from other sources. In total, it has generated about $70 million of funding. One of its partners, Aorta Cloud, is said to be planning a fundraising for Nirvanix to save it from closing, according to the VentureBeat. However, it is impossible to carry out in two weeks so it is not considered a valid option.
The letter posted by Nirvanix promised to help their customers in either returning their data or transferring it to another provider such as IBM SoftLayer, Amazon S3, Google Storage or Microsoft Azure. It has made an agreement with IBM to assist the customers moving forward and will be providing a faster Internet connection to complete all the data transfers in a small time.
The letter disclosed that the official closing date is Oct. 15.
The Wall Street Journal tried to reach out to Nirvanix chief executives hoping to find out the reason of them closing immediately but all declined to do so.
