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Nasuni Corporation
Company typePrivate
IndustryHybrid cloud storage
Founded2009; 15 years ago (2009)
FoundersAndres Rodriguez
Rob Mason
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Area served
Americas, EMEA, Asia-Pacific
Key people
Number of employees
452 (2022)[3]
Websitenasuni.com

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

History

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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. [10]

In July 2024, Nasuni announced a strategic growth investment led by Vista Equity Partners, a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. Vista was joined by TCV and KKR in the new investment, which valued Nasuni at approximately $1.2 billion.[11]

Technology

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The firm's storage software uses object storage,[12] file caching appliances, and the company's proprietary UniFS global file system[13] 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,[14] Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure,[15] and private cloud storage platforms such as IBM Cloud Object Storage and EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS).[16] Such storage platforms provide an object-based storage infrastructure, on top of which UniFS creates a complete versioned file system.[17] 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.[18]

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.[19]

Features

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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. [20]
  • Global file lock to ensure that only one user is changing a file at a time. [21]
  • Global file acceleration that optimizes the distribution of files to users. [22]
  • Access Anywhere to enable users to access the files they need from any location. [23]
  • Rapid recovery from ransomware attacks. [24]
  • Professional services to assist with migrating data to cloud storage. [25]

Patents

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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.[26]
  • Versioned file system with pruning[27]
  • Versioned file system with sharing.[28]
  • Versioned file system with fast restore.[29]
  • Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes.[30]
  • Network accessible file server.[31]
  • Versioned file system with global lock.[32]
  • Systems and methods for restoring an interface to a global file system.[33]
  • Versioned file system using structured data representations.[34]
  • Cloud-native global file system with constant-time rekeying.[35]
  • Cloud-native global file system with reshapable caching.[36]

Awards

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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.[37]
  • Silver Product of the Year Award for Cloud Storage, by Storage magazine and SearchStorage.[38]
  • SIIA Software CODiE Award for Best Cloud Infrastructure, by SIIA Software .[39]

Origin of "Nasuni"

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The company name "NASUNI" is shorthand for Andres Rodriguez's original idea for the company: "NAS UNIfied".[40]

References

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  1. ^ O'Brien, Kelly J. - "With new HQ and new hires, Nasuni builds foundation for the future" - Boston Business Journal - 18 Apr 2017
  2. ^ "David Grant President, Nasuni" - StorageNewsletter - 17 Jun 2022
  3. ^ "Nasuni Company profile". Craft. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  4. ^ Bruce Rogers (February 11, 2014). "Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?". Forbes.
  5. ^ Heather Clancy (February 9, 2015). "To rethink data management, it takes a digital content strategist". Fortune Magazine.
  6. ^ Joseph F. Kovar (14 Jul 2020). "Nasuni Raises New $25 Million Funding Round". CRN.
  7. ^ Kidd, Mark (2015-07-24). "Company Profile: Nasuni". StorageReview.com. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  8. ^ "Nasuni raises $40M and upgrades its cloud file storage platform". siliconANGLE. 14 July 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  9. ^ "PE-Backed Nasuni Acquires Multi-Cloud Data Services Company DBM Cloud Systems". ChannelE2E. 3 May 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  10. ^ infotech; infotech (2022-06-29). "Nasuni buys Storage Made Easy". InfotechLead. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  11. ^ Simon Rowley (2024-07-10). "Nasuni announces strategic growth investment". Data Centre & Network News. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
  12. ^ Bradbury, Danny - "Death of a middleman: Cloud storage gateways – and their evolution" - The Register - 25 May 2015
  13. ^ Linden, Josh - "Company Profile: Nasuni " - StorageReview.com - 24 July 2015
  14. ^ Yu, Johnny - "Cloud file storage still nascent, but growing quickly" - SearchStorage - 22 Feb 2021
  15. ^ Dolan, Kerry - "Lab Validation Report - Nasuni: Cloud NAS for the Distributed Enterprise" - Enterprise Strategy Group - March 2015
  16. ^ Sliwa, Carol - "Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding" - TechTarget SearchStorage - September 2017
  17. ^ Rogers, Bruce - "Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?" - Forbes - 11 Feb 2014
  18. ^ Mellor, Chris - "Cloud storage bods Nasuni ram BILLION-object volume into filer" - The Register - 24 Sept 2014
  19. ^ Kranz, Garry - "Nasuni cloud storage moves all-flash, disk appliances to Dell" - SearchStorage - 9 Sept 2016
  20. ^ Carol Sliwa - "Nasuni storage adds lower-cost cloud archive service option" - SearchStorage - 26 Sep 2018
  21. ^ Tom Smith - "Enterprise File Storage Simplified in the Cloud" - Insights From Analytics – 8 Feb 2022
  22. ^ Tim McCarthy - "Nasuni expands caching speed, availability for premium users" - SearchStorage – 14 Sep 2021
  23. ^ E-Channelnews - " Nasuni Makes your Files Accessible from Anywhere" - eChannelNews – 12 Sep 2022
  24. ^ Chris Mellor - " Nasuni file sync accelerates ransomware recovery" - Blocks and Files – 14 Sep 2021
  25. ^ Carol Sliwa - " Nasuni file sync accelerates ransomware recovery" - SearchStorage – 12 Nov 2019
  26. ^ "Method and system for interfacing to cloud storage" - Justia Patents - 3 Nov 2014
  27. ^ "Versioned file system with pruning" - Justia Patents - 10 Jun 2015
  28. ^ "Versioned file system with sharing" - Justia Patents - 12 Oct 2011
  29. ^ "Versioned file system with fast restore" - Justia Patents - 1 Mar 2016
  30. ^ "Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes" - Justia Patents - 24 July 2018
  31. ^ "Network accessible file server" - Justia Patents - 11 February 2020
  32. ^ "Versioned file system with global lock" - Justia Patents - 23 February 2021
  33. ^ "Systems and methods for restoring an interface to a global file system" - Justia Patents - 23 February 2021
  34. ^ "Versioned file system using structured data representations" - Justia Patents - 13 October 2021
  35. ^ "Cloud-native global file system with constant-time rekeying" - Justia Patents - 13 October 2021
  36. ^ "Cloud-native global file system with reshapable caching" - Justia Patents - 13 October 2021
  37. ^ "CRMI Honors 35 Service Organizations for Delivering ‘World-Class’ Customer Service" - Customer Relationship Management Institute - 01 April 2021
  38. ^ "Judges in this year's Products of the Year competition tap the best cloud storage products for enterprises" - SearchStorage - 14 Feb 2022
  39. ^ "Nasuni Wins SIIA Software CODiE Award for Best Cloud Infrastructure" - Nasuni - 19 May 2015
  40. ^ "Origin" - About Nasuni - 25 September 2020
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