Nasuni

What Nasuni Does

At its foundation, Nasuni transforms how enterprises handle file storage by moving the "gold copy" of an organization's file data into cloud object storage such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage. Rather than maintaining costly, siloed storage hardware and separate backup systems at each office location, organizations use Nasuni to create a single, globally accessible repository of file data that scales virtually without limit.

The platform combines the performance of local file access with the economics, durability, and reach of cloud storage. Files that users access frequently are cached locally through lightweight edge appliances, while the authoritative version of all data resides securely in the cloud. This architecture eliminates the need for traditional backup, disaster recovery, and file synchronization products, since these capabilities are built directly into the platform.

Core Technology: The UniFS File System

Central to Nasuni's offering is its proprietary UniFS technology, a cloud-native global file system. UniFS was engineered to store file data and metadata as objects in the cloud, allowing it to scale to billions of files and petabytes of data. Unlike conventional file systems that are bound by the limits of physical hardware, UniFS uses the underlying object store as its storage layer, enabling continuous versioning, immutability, and virtually unlimited capacity.

Every change to a file creates a new immutable version in the cloud, which provides built-in protection against data loss and ransomware, as previous versions can always be recovered.

Products and Services

Nasuni File Data Platform

The flagship offering is the Nasuni File Data Platform, a subscription-based service that unifies file storage, backup, disaster recovery, file synchronization, and multi-site collaboration into a single system. It enables organizations to manage all their file data from a central point while providing local access performance at every location.

Nasuni Edge Appliances

Nasuni Edge Appliances are lightweight virtual or physical caches deployed at office locations, data centers, or in the cloud. They store only the actively used portion of files locally, delivering fast, LAN-speed access to users while the full dataset remains in the cloud. These appliances can be spun up quickly and require far less local storage capacity than traditional file servers.

Nasuni Management Console

The Nasuni Management Console (NMC) provides centralized administration of the entire Nasuni environment. IT administrators can manage storage volumes, monitor edge appliances, configure policies, and oversee data across all locations from a single interface, regardless of how geographically distributed the organization is.

Nasuni Continuous File Versioning

This capability continuously captures changes to files and stores them as immutable snapshots in the cloud. It serves as a built-in backup and recovery mechanism, allowing rapid restoration of files or entire directories to any prior point in time, which is especially valuable for recovering from accidental deletions or cyberattacks.

Nasuni Ransomware Protection

Nasuni offers add-on services focused on ransomware detection and recovery. By leveraging continuous versioning and immutable cloud storage, the platform enables organizations to detect suspicious file activity and rapidly restore clean versions of affected data, minimizing downtime after an attack.

Nasuni Access Anywhere

Access Anywhere extends secure file access to remote and mobile workers, supporting productivity for distributed teams. It provides features such as web and mobile access, file sharing, and integration with collaboration tools, allowing users to reach their files from virtually anywhere.

Key Benefits and Use Cases

Nasuni is widely used across industries that generate large volumes of file data, including architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), media and entertainment, manufacturing, energy, financial services, and the public sector. Common use cases include:

• Consolidating file servers and NAS devices across multiple offices into a single cloud-based system.
• Eliminating traditional backup and disaster recovery infrastructure.
• Enabling global file sharing and collaboration among distributed teams.
• Protecting against ransomware and ensuring rapid recovery.
• Supporting large engineering and design datasets that require both scale and performance.

Organizations adopt Nasuni to reduce storage costs, simplify IT operations, improve data protection, and scale their file storage capacity without the recurring hardware refresh cycles associated with legacy systems.

Partnerships and Ecosystem

Nasuni works closely with the major public cloud providers, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud, allowing customers to choose the cloud that best fits their needs. The company also partners with technology vendors and channel partners to integrate its platform into broader enterprise IT environments and to expand its reach across global markets.

Company Position

Nasuni has established itself as a recognized leader in the cloud file storage and file data services market. The company has attracted significant venture capital and growth investment over the years, reflecting strong demand for cloud-based alternatives to traditional file storage. Its platform is positioned as a modern replacement for the patchwork of file servers, NAS appliances, backup software, and disaster recovery tools that many enterprises have historically relied upon.

By combining a cloud-native global file system with edge caching and comprehensive data protection, Nasuni offers enterprises a way to modernize their file infrastructure while gaining scalability, resilience, and operational simplicity.