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Reply to Jonathon Buckley of Nirvanix

Autor tombassett

This is in response to comments by Jonathon Buckley of Nirvanix, which can be found on TechCrunch on this post.

1. The StreamLoad/MediaMax/theLinkUp corporate entity, ownership, management…everything are completely separate from the entity known as Nirvanix.

Patrick Harr is CEO of Nirvanix. He was formerly CEO of MediaMax.

Greg Bohdan is the CFO of Nirvanix. He was formerly CFO of MediaMax. He was also formerly CFO and is currently on the Board of Directors of the “San Diego Venture Group”, which FUNDED MediaMax.

Geoff Tudor was Senior Vice President of Products and Engineering at Streamload. He is now COO & VP of Engineering at Nirvanix.

Adrian Herrera was the Director of Business Development at Streamload. He is now the Director of Business Development at Nirvanix.

Steve Iverson is the current president of MediaMax, founder, and former CTO. He has admitted that Nirvanix is a spin-off company from MediaMax, and that the behind the scenes creation of Nirvanix BY MediaMax is part of the reason for the massive failures experienced by them.

* Nirvanix is located at 525 B St, San Diego, CA.
* MediaMax is located at 600 B St, San Diego, CA.

According to Google Maps, those locations are only 203 feet away from each other. However, if you search California corporate records, they’re both listed as 525 B St.

He (HARR) was CEO of Streamload for but two months before splitting off and founding Nirvanix.

Which again, IS a spin-off, uses SAME computers and personnel, etc. He was so successful in presiding over the failure that is Streamload/Mediamax/The Linkup, that he was rewarded a new job - president of sham spin-off?

The truth is - you wanted a fresh start, but the Mediamax/Streamload name was tainted. So you made a new company with a new name, but the same people, same servers, etc - that is INEXORABLY intertwined with the old one.

We’re not stupid. We know what you’re trying to pull.

3. Neither Streamload nor Nirvanix have any ownership in each other. They are different businesses in every way shape and form.

Except for ADMITTEDLY using the same servers, one being a so-called “client” of another, sharing personnel, and according to corporate records, even sharing the same address (525 B St., San Diego, CA 92101).

Nirvanix has raised $18M in venture capital from top firms including Intel Capital. The due diligence involved in this process alone is daunting. We can ensure you that we could not have made it through this process if even 5% of the terrible things that have been inferred about a “Nirvanix conspiracy” were correct.

Even the most horrible companies have raised venture capital - I offer as proof that Mediamax was able to do so, and look at the crapfest THEY turned out to be. Maybe Greg Bohdan, a guy who was on the BoD of the San Diego Venture group which funded Mediamax and who now works for Nirvanix, helped out?

There are now nearly 400 businesses built or in the process of launching with Nirvanix as their storage cloud supporting it, including Streamload.

I’m hoping those unsuspecting businesses will read this and abandon this sinking ship before it is too late. History repeats itself, everyone - and Nirvanix is doomed to repeat the mistakes of it’s previous incarnations - Streamload, Mediamax, et al.

For those on this thread that lost irreplaceable data, this is the worst-case scenario for you or anybody and certainly for a storage provider - free or not. Best practices would have you place multiple copies in multiple locations, even with a paid service advertising backup etc. This goes for the folks that are using a backup drive locally. Make sure you get a copy offsite.

So, basically - sorry we lost your data, but it is your own damn fault. You should back up your data offsite! Nevermind that many users were using Mediamax/Nirvanix/Streamload/The Linkup AS their offsite backup! Hey, wait - there is no “Sorry” in there at all, huh.

We lost your data, we’re not sorry about it, and it’s your own damn fault for trusting us - Jonathon Buckley