Nasuni Explained

Nasuni Corporation
Type:Private
Founders:Andres Rodriguez
Rob Mason
Area Served:Americas, EMEA, Asia-Pacific
Industry:Hybrid cloud storage
Num Employees:452 (2022)[1]
Location City:Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Nasuni Corporation is a privately-held hybrid cloud storage company[2] with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5]

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.[6]

In May 2022, Nasuni acquired the technology assets of DBM Cloud Systems in order to provide enhanced data migration and cloud portability features.[7]

In June of 2022, Nasuni acquired Storage Made Easy, a file data management company, for an undisclosed sum. [8]

Technology

The firm's storage software uses object storage,[9] file caching appliances, and the company's proprietary UniFS global file system[10] 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,[11] Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure,[12] and private cloud storage platforms such as IBM Cloud Object Storage and EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS).[13] Such storage platforms provide an object-based storage infrastructure, on top of which UniFS creates a complete versioned file system.[14] 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.[15]

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.[16]

Features

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

Patents

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

Awards

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

Origin of "Nasuni"

The company name "NASUNI" is shorthand for Andres Rodriguez's original idea for the company: "NAS UNIfied".[37]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nasuni Company profile . Craft. 14 September 2022.
  2. Web site: Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?. February 11, 2014. Forbes. Bruce Rogers.
  3. Web site: To rethink data management, it takes a digital content strategist. Fortune Magazine. February 9, 2015. Heather Clancy.
  4. Web site: Joseph F. Kovar. 14 Jul 2020. Nasuni Raises New $25 Million Funding Round. CRN.
  5. Web site: Kidd. Mark. 2015-07-24. Company Profile: Nasuni. 2021-07-21. StorageReview.com. en-US.
  6. Web site: 14 July 2020. Nasuni raises $40M and upgrades its cloud file storage platform. 14 October 2020. siliconANGLE.
  7. Web site: 3 May 2022. PE-Backed Nasuni Acquires Multi-Cloud Data Services Company DBM Cloud Systems. 8 June 2022. ChannelE2E.
  8. Web site: infotech . infotech . 2022-06-29 . Nasuni buys Storage Made Easy . 2022-07-05 . InfotechLead . en-US.
  9. Bradbury, Danny - "Death of a middleman: Cloud storage gateways – and their evolution" - The Register - 25 May 2015
  10. Linden, Josh - "Company Profile: Nasuni " - StorageReview.com - 24 July 2015
  11. Yu, Johnny - "Cloud file storage still nascent, but growing quickly" - SearchStorage - 22 Feb 2021
  12. Dolan, Kerry - "Lab Validation Report - Nasuni: Cloud NAS for the Distributed Enterprise" - Enterprise Strategy Group - March 2015
  13. Sliwa, Carol - "Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding" - TechTarget SearchStorage - September 2017
  14. Rogers, Bruce - "Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?" - Forbes - 11 Feb 2014
  15. Mellor, Chris - "Cloud storage bods Nasuni ram BILLION-object volume into filer" - The Register - 24 Sept 2014
  16. Kranz, Garry - "Nasuni cloud storage moves all-flash, disk appliances to Dell" - SearchStorage - 9 Sept 2016
  17. Carol Sliwa - "Nasuni storage adds lower-cost cloud archive service option" - SearchStorage - 26 Sep 2018
  18. Tom Smith - "Enterprise File Storage Simplified in the Cloud" - Insights From Analytics – 8 Feb 2022
  19. Tim McCarthy - "Nasuni expands caching speed, availability for premium users" - SearchStorage – 14 Sep 2021
  20. E-Channelnews - " Nasuni Makes your Files Accessible from Anywhere" - eChannelNews – 12 Sep 2022
  21. Chris Mellor - " Nasuni file sync accelerates ransomware recovery" - Blocks and Files – 14 Sep 2021
  22. Carol Sliwa - " Nasuni file sync accelerates ransomware recovery" - SearchStorage – 12 Nov 2019
  23. http://patents.justia.com/patent/9575841 "Method and system for interfacing to cloud storage"
  24. https://patents.justia.com/patent/20120030261 "Versioned file system with pruning"
  25. https://patents.justia.com/patent/8661063 "Versioned file system with sharing"
  26. https://patents.justia.com/patent/9274896 "Versioned file system with fast restore"
  27. https://patents.justia.com/patent/10423573 "Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes"
  28. https://patents.justia.com/patent/10558622 "Network accessible file server"
  29. https://patents.justia.com/patent/10311153 "Versioned file system with global lock"
  30. https://patents.justia.com/patent/10893102 "Systems and methods for restoring an interface to a global file system"
  31. https://patents.justia.com/patent/10891194 "Versioned file system using structured data representations"
  32. https://patents.justia.com/patent/11025422 "Cloud-native global file system with constant-time rekeying"
  33. https://patents.justia.com/patent/11023384 "Cloud-native global file system with reshapable caching"
  34. https://www.crmirewards.com/article/crmi-honors-34-service-organizations-for-delivering-world-class-customer-service-6-cited-for-certification-in-customer-experience-management-professional-cempro-6-nominated-for-cer "CRMI Honors 35 Service Organizations for Delivering ‘World-Class’ Customer Service"
  35. https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/feature/The-best-enterprise-cloud-storage-of-2021 "Judges in this year's Products of the Year competition tap the best cloud storage products for enterprises"
  36. https://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-wins-siia-software-codie-award-for-best-cloud-infrastructure/ "Nasuni Wins SIIA Software CODiE Award for Best Cloud Infrastructure"
  37. https://www.nasuni.com/company "Origin"

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