Nasuni

Nasuni
Private
Industry Cloud Storage
Founded 2008
Founders Andres Rodriguez
Rob Mason
Headquarters Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Area served
 Americas, EMEA, Asia-Pacific
Key people
 Andres Rodriguez, CEO
Number of employees
 186
Website www.nasuni.com

Nasuni is a privately held cloud storage company[1] with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts[2]. It was founded in 2008, and has raised approximately $120M, with the last funding a $38M investment by Goldman Sachs.[3]

The firm's storage software uses object storage,[4] local file caching appliances, and the company's proprietary UniFS global file system[5] to offer a hybrid cloud solution for Network Attached Storage. Nasuni integrates with public cloud storage platforms, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure,[6] and private cloud storage platforms such as IBM Cloud Object Storage and EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)[7]. Such storage platforms provide an object-based storage infrastructure, on top of which UniFS creates a complete versioned file system.[8] 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.[9]

Nasuni Edge Appliances run on-premises to provide shared access to active files. These Appliances can be virtual, running on existing infrastructure (including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V), or physical, running on hardware offered by Nasuni. The appliances can also run in the cloud as a Microsoft Azure or Amazon EC2 virtual appliance. Hardware appliance choices include systems with solid-state drives.[10]

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

  • A cached file system that stores data and metadata in a cloud object store [11].
  • A cloud service that coordinates management of file locks across multiple locations to enable collaboration without file conflict[12].
  • A cloud service that coordinates the creation of versions of a shared volume across multiple locations [13].


References

  1. ↑ Bruce Rogers (February 11, 2014). "Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?". Forbes.
  2. ↑ Heather Clancy (February 9, 2015). "To rethink data management, it takes a digital content strategist". Fortune Magazine.
  3. ↑ Chris Mellor (12 Sep 2017). "Goldman Sachs tips $38m into Nasuni's hat". The Register.
  4. ↑ Bradbury, Danny - "Death of a middleman: Cloud storage gateways – and their evolution" - The Register - 25 May 2015
  5. ↑ Linden, Josh - "Company Profile: Nasuni " - StorageReview.com - 24 July 2015
  6. ↑ Dolan, Kerry - "Lab Validation Report - Nasuni: Cloud NAS for the Distributed Enterprise" - Enterprise Strategy Group - March 2015
  7. ↑ Sliwa, Carol - "Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding" - TechTarget SearchStorage - September 2017
  8. ↑ Rogers, Bruce - "Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?" - Forbes - FEB 11, 2014
  9. ↑ Mellor, Chris - "Cloud storage bods Nasuni ram BILLION-object volume into filer" - The Register - 24 Sept 2014
  10. ↑ Kranz, Garry - "Nasuni cloud storage moves all-flash, disk appliances to Dell" - SearchStorage - 9 Sept 2016
  11. ↑ "Method and system for interfacing to cloud storage" - Justia Patents - 3 Nov 2014
  12. ↑ "Versioned file system with Global Lock" - Justia Patents - 10 Jun 2015
  13. ↑ "Versioned file system with sharing" - Justia Patents - 12 Oct 2011
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