Nasuni

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Nasuni
TypePrivate
IndustryCloud Storage
Founded2008
FoundersAndres Rodriguez
Rob Mason
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Area served
Americas, EMEA, Asia-Pacific
Key people
Number of employees
342 (2021)[2]
Websitewww.nasuni.com

Nasuni is a privately-held cloud storage company[3] with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.[4]

History[]

Nasuni was founded in 2008, 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.[5]

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.[6]

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.[7]

Technology[]

The firm's storage software uses object storage,[8] file caching appliances, and the company's proprietary UniFS global file system[9] 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,[10] Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure,[11] and private cloud storage platforms such as IBM Cloud Object Storage and EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS).[12] Such storage platforms provide an object-based storage infrastructure, on top of which UniFS creates a complete versioned file system.[13] 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.[14]

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.[15]

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.[16]
  • Versioned file system with pruning[17]
  • Versioned file system with sharing.[18]
  • Versioned file system with fast restore.[19]
  • Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes.[20]
  • Network accessible file server.[21]
  • Versioned file system with global lock.[22]
  • Systems and methods for restoring an interface to a global file system.[23]
  • Versioned file system using structured data representations.[24]
  • Cloud-native global file system with constant-time rekeying.[25]
  • Cloud-native global file system with reshapable caching.[26]

Origin of "Nasuni"[]

The company name "NASUNI" is shorthand for Andres Rodriguez's original idea for the company: "NAS UNIfied".[27]

References[]

  1. ^ O'Brien, Kelly J. - "With new HQ and new hires, Nasuni builds foundation for the future" - Boston Business Journal - 18 Apr 2017
  2. ^ "Nasuni Company profile". Craft. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  3. ^ Bruce Rogers (February 11, 2014). "Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?". Forbes.
  4. ^ Heather Clancy (February 9, 2015). "To rethink data management, it takes a digital content strategist". Fortune Magazine.
  5. ^ Joseph F. Kovar (14 Jul 2020). "Nasuni Raises New $25 Million Funding Round". CRN.
  6. ^ Kidd, Mark (2015-07-24). "Company Profile: Nasuni". StorageReview.com. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  7. ^ "Nasuni raises $40M and upgrades its cloud file storage platform". siliconANGLE. 14 July 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Bradbury, Danny - "Death of a middleman: Cloud storage gateways – and their evolution" - The Register - 25 May 2015
  9. ^ Linden, Josh - "Company Profile: Nasuni " - StorageReview.com - 24 July 2015
  10. ^ Yu, Johnny - "Cloud file storage still nascent, but growing quickly" - SearchStorage - 22 Feb 2021
  11. ^ Dolan, Kerry - "Lab Validation Report - Nasuni: Cloud NAS for the Distributed Enterprise" - Enterprise Strategy Group - March 2015
  12. ^ Sliwa, Carol - "Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding" - TechTarget SearchStorage - September 2017
  13. ^ Rogers, Bruce - "Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?" - Forbes - FEB 11, 2014
  14. ^ Mellor, Chris - "Cloud storage bods Nasuni ram BILLION-object volume into filer" - The Register - 24 Sept 2014
  15. ^ Kranz, Garry - "Nasuni cloud storage moves all-flash, disk appliances to Dell" - SearchStorage - 9 Sept 2016
  16. ^ "Method and system for interfacing to cloud storage" - Justia Patents - 3 Nov 2014
  17. ^ "Versioned file system with pruning" - Justia Patents - 10 Jun 2015
  18. ^ "Versioned file system with sharing" - Justia Patents - 12 Oct 2011
  19. ^ "Versioned file system with fast restore" - Justia Patents - 1 Mar 2016
  20. ^ "Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes" - Justia Patents - 24 July 2018
  21. ^ "Network accessible file server" - Justia Patents - 11 February 2020
  22. ^ "Versioned file system with global lock" - Justia Patents - 23 February 2021
  23. ^ "Systems and methods for restoring an interface to a global file system" - Justia Patents - 23 February 2021
  24. ^ "Versioned file system using structured data representations" - Justia Patents - 13 October 2021
  25. ^ "Cloud-native global file system with constant-time rekeying" - Justia Patents - 13 October 2021
  26. ^ "Cloud-native global file system with reshapable caching" - Justia Patents - 13 October 2021
  27. ^ "Origin" - About Nasuni - 25 September 2020

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