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Nasuni
American hybrid cloud storage company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nasuni Corporation is a privately-held hybrid cloud storage company[4] with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.[5]
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Nasuni was founded in 2009, 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.[6]
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.[7]
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.[8]
In May 2022, Nasuni acquired the technology assets of DBM Cloud Systems in order to provide enhanced data migration and cloud portability features.[9]
In June of 2022, Nasuni acquired Storage Made Easy, a file data management company, for an undisclosed sum. [10]
In July 2024, Nasuni announced a strategic growth investment led by Vista Equity Partners, a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. Vista was joined by TCV and KKR in the new investment, which valued Nasuni at approximately $1.2 billion.[11]
In April 2025, Sam King became CEO. Former CEO Paul Flanagan continues as a member of the Board of Directors.
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The firm's storage software uses object storage,[12] file caching appliances, and the company's proprietary UniFS global file system[13] 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,[14] Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure,[15] and private cloud storage platforms such as IBM Cloud Object Storage and EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS).[16] Such storage platforms provide an object-based storage infrastructure, on top of which UniFS creates a complete versioned file system.[17] 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.[18]
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.[19]
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Features
Nasuni’s File Data Platform provides a variety of services, including the following:
- Multi-site collaboration that enables multiple users in multiple locations to work on the same files. [20]
- Global file lock to ensure that only one user is changing a file at a time. [21]
- Global file acceleration that optimizes the distribution of files to users. [22]
- Access Anywhere to enable users to access the files they need from any location. [23]
- Rapid recovery from ransomware attacks. [24]
- Professional services to assist with migrating data to cloud storage. [25]
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.[26]
- Versioned file system with pruning[27]
- Versioned file system with sharing.[28]
- Versioned file system with fast restore.[29]
- Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes.[30]
- Network accessible file server.[31]
- Versioned file system with global lock.[32]
- Systems and methods for restoring an interface to a global file system.[33]
- Versioned file system using structured data representations.[34]
- Cloud-native global file system with constant-time rekeying.[35]
- Cloud-native global file system with reshapable caching.[36]
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Awards
Nasuni has earned several awards for technology and customer service, including the following:
Origin of "Nasuni"
The company name "NASUNI" is shorthand for Andres Rodriguez's original idea for the company: "NAS UNIfied".[40]
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