Nasuni is a privately-held

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company with headquarters in

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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

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, Telstra Ventures, and Northbridge Venture Partners. 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. 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. In May 2022, Nasuni acquired the technology assets of DBM Cloud Systems in order to provide enhanced

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and cloud portability features. In June of 2022, Nasuni acquired Storage Made Easy, a file data management company, for an undisclosed sum.

Technology

The firm's storage software uses

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, file caching appliances, and the company's proprietary UniFS

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to offer a cloud solution that replaces traditional

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s and

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(

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). Nasuni integrates with public

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platforms, such as

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, and

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, and private cloud storage platforms such as

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and EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS). Such storage platforms provide an

object-based storage Object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a computer data storage that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy, and block storage which manages data as ...

infrastructure, on top of which UniFS creates a complete versioned file system. The Nasuni platform stores customer data as a sequence of

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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. Nasuni Edge Appliances run in the

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or on-premises to provide shared access to cached copies of active files. These Appliances are typically deployed as

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, running on existing infrastructure, including

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, and Microsoft Hyper-V. The Edge Appliances can also run in the cloud on

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, or

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. Hardware appliance choices offered by Nasuni include systems with

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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. * Versioned file system with pruning * Versioned file system with sharing. * Versioned file system with fast restore. * Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes. * Network accessible file server. * Versioned file system with global lock. * Systems and methods for restoring an interface to a global file system. * Versioned file system using structured data representations. * Cloud-native global file system with constant-time rekeying. * Cloud-native global file system with reshapable caching.

Awards

Nasuni has earned several awards for technology and customer service, including the following: * NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for Customer Service, by the Customer Relationship Management Institute LLC. * Silver Product of the Year Award for Cloud Storage, by Storage magazine and SearchStorage. * SIIA Software CODiE Award for Best Cloud Infrastructure, by SIIA Software .

Origin of "Nasuni"

The company name "NASUNI" is shorthand for Andres Rodriguez's original idea for the company: "

UNIfied"."Origin"
- ''About Nasuni'' - 25 September 2020

References

External links

Nasuni Official Website
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