Nirvanix is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California and has built a global cluster of storage nodes, collectively referred to as the storage delivery network, to store multiple file copies in multiple geographic nodes and to deliver and process storage requests in the best network locations.

3Tera will be integrating the Nirvanix SDN as a backup target option within the AppLogic grid operating system backup dynamic appliance. Besides providing developers with what 3Tera calls one of the highest performance storage options on the market, AppLogic customers will also be able to send backup copies to multiple global locations simultaneously for best practices in disaster recovery.

According to the press release, the new integrated solution was demonstrated live today during the Under the Radar (undertheradar.com) Conference in Mountain View, California - an event that focuses on early-stage innovation and showcasing emerging startups - and displayed a real application grid backing up multiple images and gigabytes of data to the SDN in a matter of seconds.

"This solution blends together the best of both worlds, utility computing and cloud storage," says Jonathan Buckley, chief marketing officer for Nirvanix. "The two companies are coming together to address a very real problem for their customer: how to complement the simplicity and automation of a robust utility computing platform, with a cost-disruptive, yet most-reliable layer of data protection based on cloud storage."

Earlier this week, 3Tera's increasingly popular AppLogic utility computing platform was used to develop yet another company's offering when DedicatedNOW launched Virtual Cluster, a product created to enable small businesses to scale their services easily, where they would be unable to build fully managed clusters themselves.