[4] Streamload, founded in 1998 in San Diego, California by Steve Iverson, a student at Pomona College, was one of the first Internet storage services, receiving various accolades for products between 2002 and 2006.

[5][6][7] The company attracted angel investor and computer software entrepreneur Charlie Jackson and $1.2 million in investment by August 2004.

Nirvanix incorporated both the lessons-learned operating a large-scale online storage service under Streamload as well as techniques in clustering, virtualization, database-driven file system architectures and distributed networking.

[31][32] On December 4, 2013, Oracle issued an announcement that they had acquired select intellectual property of Nirvanix, as well as key engineering resources.

[33] The company has pivoted[clarification needed] and offers solutions[buzzword] in the space of business phone systems helping small and medium size entreprises.

Nirvanix is currently focusing on innovation around VoIP Phone Systems, hosted PBX, cloud storage and other similar functions.