Nasuni

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]

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
287 (2020)[2]
Websitewww.nasuni.com

Technology

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 (NAS). 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]

On 14 July 2020, Nasuni Corp. has collected $25 million funds and an extra $15 million and upgraded its cloud file storage.[13]

Patents

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.[14]
  • A cloud service that coordinates management of file locks across multiple locations to enable collaboration without file conflict.[15]
  • A cloud service that coordinates the creation of versions of a shared volume across multiple locations.[16]
  • A versioned file system with fast restore.[17]
  • Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes.[18]
  • Network accessible file server.[19]

Origin of "Nasuni"

The company name "NASUNI" is shorthand for Andres Rodriguez's original idea for the company: "NAS UNIfied".[20]

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. Chris Mellor (12 Sep 2017). "Goldman Sachs tips $38m into Nasuni's hat". The Register.
  6. Bradbury, Danny - "Death of a middleman: Cloud storage gateways – and their evolution" - The Register - 25 May 2015
  7. Linden, Josh - "Company Profile: Nasuni " - StorageReview.com - 24 July 2015
  8. Dolan, Kerry - "Lab Validation Report - Nasuni: Cloud NAS for the Distributed Enterprise" - Enterprise Strategy Group - March 2015
  9. Sliwa, Carol - "Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding" - TechTarget SearchStorage - September 2017
  10. Rogers, Bruce - "Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?" - Forbes - FEB 11, 2014
  11. Mellor, Chris - "Cloud storage bods Nasuni ram BILLION-object volume into filer" - The Register - 24 Sept 2014
  12. Kranz, Garry - "Nasuni cloud storage moves all-flash, disk appliances to Dell" - SearchStorage - 9 Sept 2016
  13. "Nasuni raises $40M and upgrades its cloud file storage platform". siliconANGLE. 14 July 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  14. "Method and system for interfacing to cloud storage" - Justia Patents - 3 Nov 2014
  15. "Versioned file system with Global Lock" - Justia Patents - 10 Jun 2015
  16. "Versioned file system with sharing" - Justia Patents - 12 Oct 2011
  17. "Versioned file system with fast restore" - Justia Patents - 1 Mar 2016
  18. "Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes" - Justia Patents - 24 July 2018
  19. "Network accessible file server" - Justia Patents - 11 February 2020
  20. "Origin" - About Nasuni - 25 September 2020
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