Nasuni
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Cloud Storage |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founders | Andres Rodriguez Rob Mason |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | Americas, EMEA, Asia-Pacific |
Key people | Paul Flanagan (President, CEO)[1] Andres Rodriguez (CTO) Scott Dussault (COO, CFO) |
Number of employees | 287 (2020)[2] |
| Website | www.nasuni.com |
Nasuni is a privately held cloud storage company[3] with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts[4]. It was founded in 2008, and has raised approximately $120M, with the last funding a $38M investment by Goldman Sachs.[5]
The firm's storage software uses object storage,[6] local file caching appliances, and the company's proprietary UniFS global file system[7] 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,[8] and private cloud storage platforms such as IBM Cloud Object Storage and EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)[9]. Such storage platforms provide an object-based storage infrastructure, on top of which UniFS creates a complete versioned file system.[10] 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.[11]
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.[12]
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 [13].
- A cloud service that coordinates management of file locks across multiple locations to enable collaboration without file conflict[14].
- A cloud service that coordinates the creation of versions of a shared volume across multiple locations [15].
- A versioned file system with fast restore [16].
- Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes [17].
- Network accessible file server [18].
References
- ^ O'Brien, Kelly J. - "With new HQ and new hires, Nasuni builds foundation for the future" - Boston Business Journal - 18 Apr 2017
- ^ "Nasuni Company profile". Craft. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Chris Mellor (12 Sep 2017). "Goldman Sachs tips $38m into Nasuni's hat". The Register.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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 - FEB 11, 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
- ^ "Method and system for interfacing to cloud storage" - Justia Patents - 3 Nov 2014
- ^ "Versioned file system with Global Lock" - Justia Patents - 10 Jun 2015
- ^ "Versioned file system with sharing" - Justia Patents - 12 Oct 2011
- ^ "Versioned file system with fast restore" - Justia Patents - 1 Mar 2016
- ^ "Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes" - Justia Patents - 24 July 2018
- ^ "Network accessible file server" - Justia Patents - 11 February 2020
