American hybrid cloud storage company
Nasuni is a privately-held
hybrid cloud storage company
[4] with headquarters in
Boston ,
Massachusetts .
[5]
History
Nasuni was founded in 2009, 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.
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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 .
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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.
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Global file lock to ensure that only one user is changing a file at a time.
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Global file acceleration that optimizes the distribution of files to users.
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Access Anywhere to enable users to access the files they need from any location.
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Rapid recovery from ransomware attacks.
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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.
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Network accessible file server.
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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.
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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
^ O'Brien, Kelly J. -
"With new HQ and new hires, Nasuni builds foundation for the future" -
Boston Business Journal - 18 Apr 2017
^
"David Grant President, Nasuni" -
StorageNewsletter - 17 Jun 2022
^
"Nasuni Company profile" . Craft. Retrieved 14 September 2022 .
^ Bruce Rogers (February 11, 2014).
"Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?" .
Forbes .
^ Heather Clancy (February 9, 2015).
"To rethink data management, it takes a digital content strategist" .
Fortune Magazine .
^ Joseph F. Kovar (14 Jul 2020).
"Nasuni Raises New $25 Million Funding Round" .
CRN .
^ Kidd, Mark (2015-07-24).
"Company Profile: Nasuni" . StorageReview.com . Retrieved 2021-07-21 .
^
"Nasuni raises $40M and upgrades its cloud file storage platform" . siliconANGLE . 14 July 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020 .
^
"PE-Backed Nasuni Acquires Multi-Cloud Data Services Company DBM Cloud Systems" . ChannelE2E . 3 May 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022 .
^ infotech; infotech (2022-06-29).
"Nasuni buys Storage Made Easy" . InfotechLead . Retrieved 2022-07-05 .
^ Bradbury, Danny -
"Death of a middleman: Cloud storage gateways – and their evolution" -
The Register - 25 May 2015
^ Linden, Josh -
"Company Profile: Nasuni " - StorageReview.com - 24 July 2015
^ Yu, Johnny -
"Cloud file storage still nascent, but growing quickly" -
SearchStorage - 22 Feb 2021
^ Dolan, Kerry -
"Lab Validation Report - Nasuni: Cloud NAS for the Distributed Enterprise" - Enterprise Strategy Group - March 2015
^ Sliwa, Carol -
"Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding" - TechTarget SearchStorage - September 2017
^ Rogers, Bruce -
"Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?" -
Forbes - 11 Feb 2014
^ Mellor, Chris -
"Cloud storage bods Nasuni ram BILLION-object volume into filer" -
The Register - 24 Sept 2014
^ Kranz, Garry -
"Nasuni cloud storage moves all-flash, disk appliances to Dell" -
SearchStorage - 9 Sept 2016
^ Carol Sliwa -
"Nasuni storage adds lower-cost cloud archive service option" -
SearchStorage - 26 Sep 2018
^ Tom Smith -
"Enterprise File Storage Simplified in the Cloud" -
Insights From Analytics – 8 Feb 2022
^ Tim McCarthy -
"Nasuni expands caching speed, availability for premium users" -
SearchStorage – 14 Sep 2021
^ E-Channelnews -
" Nasuni Makes your Files Accessible from Anywhere" -
eChannelNews – 12 Sep 2022
^ Chris Mellor -
" Nasuni file sync accelerates ransomware recovery" -
Blocks and Files – 14 Sep 2021
^ Carol Sliwa -
" Nasuni file sync accelerates ransomware recovery" -
SearchStorage – 12 Nov 2019
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"Method and system for interfacing to cloud storage" - Justia Patents - 3 Nov 2014
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"Versioned file system with pruning" - Justia Patents - 10 Jun 2015
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"Versioned file system with sharing" - Justia Patents - 12 Oct 2011
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"Versioned file system with fast restore" - Justia Patents - 1 Mar 2016
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"Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes" - Justia Patents - 24 July 2018
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"Network accessible file server" - Justia Patents - 11 February 2020
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"Versioned file system with global lock" - Justia Patents - 23 February 2021
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"Systems and methods for restoring an interface to a global file system" - Justia Patents - 23 February 2021
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"Versioned file system using structured data representations" - Justia Patents - 13 October 2021
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"Cloud-native global file system with constant-time rekeying" - Justia Patents - 13 October 2021
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"Cloud-native global file system with reshapable caching" - Justia Patents - 13 October 2021
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"CRMI Honors 35 Service Organizations for Delivering ‘World-Class’ Customer Service" - Customer Relationship Management Institute - 01 April 2021
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"Judges in this year's Products of the Year competition tap the best cloud storage products for enterprises" - SearchStorage - 14 Feb 2022
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"Nasuni Wins SIIA Software CODiE Award for Best Cloud Infrastructure" - Nasuni - 19 May 2015
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"Origin" - About Nasuni - 25 September 2020
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