Nasuni

Type	Private
Industry	Hybrid cloud storage
Founded	2008
Founders	Andres Rodriguez Rob Mason
Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Area served	Americas, EMEA, Asia-Pacific
Key people	Paul Flanagan (CEO)[1] David Grant (President)[2] Andres Rodriguez (CTO) Raymond Hale (CFO)
Number of employees	452 (2022)[3]
Website	www.nasuni.com

Nasuni is a privately-held hybrid cloud storage company^[4] with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.^[5]

History

Nasuni was founded in 2008, and has raised approximately $169M, with the last funding a $25M investment in which all previous investors participated, including Goldman Sachs, Telstra Ventures, and Northbridge Venture Partners.^[6]

In the time since Nasuni requested a patent on UniFS in November 2013, the company has expanded its access to cloud storage infrastructure, as well as its on-premises edge appliance offerings, which provide local access to content stored in Nasuni-managed cloud storage.^[7]

On 14 July 2020, Nasuni Corp. collected $25 million in a new round of funding, plus an additional $15 million debt facility, and upgraded its cloud file storage platform to support remote workers.^[8]

In May 2022, Nasuni acquired the technology assets of DBM Cloud Systems in order to provide enhanced data migration and cloud portability features.^[9]

In June of 2022, Nasuni acquired Storage Made Easy, a file data management company, for an undisclosed sum. ^[10]

Technology

The firm's storage software uses object storage,^[11] file caching appliances, and the company's proprietary UniFS global file system^[12] to offer a cloud solution that replaces traditional file servers and Network Attached Storage (NAS). Nasuni integrates with public cloud storage platforms, such as Google Cloud Storage,^[13] Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure,^[14] and private cloud storage platforms such as IBM Cloud Object Storage and EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS).^[15] Such storage platforms provide an object-based storage infrastructure, on top of which UniFS creates a complete versioned file system.^[16] The Nasuni platform stores customer data as a sequence of snapshots that include every version of every file. The firm has demonstrated the ability to store more than one billion objects in a single storage volume.^[17]

Nasuni Edge Appliances run in the public cloud or on-premises to provide shared access to cached copies of active files. These Appliances are typically deployed as virtual machines, running on existing infrastructure, including VMware, Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure, and Microsoft Hyper-V. The Edge Appliances can also run in the cloud on Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, or Google Cloud Platform. Hardware appliance choices offered by Nasuni include systems with solid-state drives.^[18]

Features

Nasuni’s File Data Platform provides a variety of services, including the following:

• Multi-site collaboration that enables multiple users in multiple locations to work on the same files. ^[19]
• Global file lock to ensure that only one user is changing a file at a time. ^[20]
• Global file acceleration that optimizes the distribution of files to users. ^[21]
• Access Anywhere to enable users to access the files they need from any location. ^[22]
• Rapid recovery from ransomware attacks. ^[23]
• Professional services to assist with migrating data to cloud storage. ^[24]

Patents

Nasuni holds a number of patents for technologies that support the Nasuni enterprise file services platform, including:

• Method and system for interfacing to cloud storage.^[25]
• Versioned file system with pruning^[26]
• Versioned file system with sharing.^[27]
• Versioned file system with fast restore.^[28]
• Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes.^[29]
• Network accessible file server.^[30]
• Versioned file system with global lock.^[31]
• Systems and methods for restoring an interface to a global file system.^[32]
• Versioned file system using structured data representations.^[33]
• Cloud-native global file system with constant-time rekeying.^[34]
• Cloud-native global file system with reshapable caching.^[35]

Awards

Nasuni has earned several awards for technology and customer service, including the following:

• NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for Customer Service, by the Customer Relationship Management Institute LLC.^[36]
• Silver Product of the Year Award for Cloud Storage, by Storage magazine and SearchStorage.^[37]
• SIIA Software CODiE Award for Best Cloud Infrastructure, by SIIA Software .^[38]

Origin of "Nasuni"

The company name "NASUNI" is shorthand for Andres Rodriguez's original idea for the company: "NAS UNIfied".^[39]

References

External links

• Nasuni Official Website