Nasuni

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]

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]

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]

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

• NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for Customer Service, by the Customer Relationship Management Institute LLC.[27]
• Silver Product of the Year Award for Cloud Storage, by Storage magazine and SearchStorage.[28]
• SIIA Software CODiE Award for Best Cloud Infrastructure, by SIIA Software .[29]

The company name "NASUNI" is shorthand for Andres Rodriguez's original idea for the company: "NAS UNIfied".[30]

• Nasuni Official Website