Nasuni

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Type| Private
Industry| Hybrid cloud storage
Founded| 2009; 17 years ago (2009)
Founders| Andres Rodriguez
Rob Mason
Headquarters|

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Area served

| Americas, EMEA, Asia-Pacific

Key people

* Sam King (CEO)[1]
* David Grant (President)[2]
* Andres Rodriguez (CTO)
* Raymond Hale (CFO)

Number of employees

| 452 (2022)[3]
Website| nasuni.com

Nasuni Corporation is a privately held hybrid cloud storage company[4] with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.[5]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Technology
* 3 Features
* 4 Patents
* 5 Awards
* 6 Origin of "Nasuni"
* 7 References
* 8 External links

## History

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.

## Technology

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]

## 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]

## Awards

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

* Storage Magazine's Storage Awards 2024: Cloud Enabler of the Year.[37]
* Silver Product of the Year Award for Cloud Storage, by Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.[38]
* NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for Customer Service, by the Customer Relationship Management Institute LLC.[39]

## Origin of "Nasuni"

The company name "NASUNI" is shorthand for Andres Rodriguez's original idea for the company: "NAS UNIfied".[40]

## References

1. ↑ Chavez, Eli - "Former Veracode CEO Sam King takes helm at Nasuni" \- Boston Business Journal - 01 Apr 2025
2. ↑ "David Grant President, Nasuni" \- StorageNewsletter - 17 Jun 2022
3. ↑ "Nasuni Company profile". Craft. https://craft.co/nasuni.
4. ↑ Bruce Rogers (February 11, 2014). "Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2014/02/11/will-andres-rodriguez-nasuni-be-the-next-big-cloud-storage-company-ipo/#18d5f3a53bc6.
5. ↑ Heather Clancy (February 9, 2015). "To rethink data management, it takes a digital content strategist". Fortune Magazine. http://fortune.com/2015/02/09/nasuni-qa-andres-rodriguez/.
6. ↑ Joseph F. Kovar (14 Jul 2020). "Nasuni Raises New $25 Million Funding Round". CRN. https://www.crn.com/news/storage/nasuni-raises-new-25-million-funding-round.
7. ↑ Kidd, Mark (2015-07-24). "Company Profile: Nasuni" (in en-US). https://www.storagereview.com/news/company-profile-nasuni.
8. ↑ "Nasuni raises $40M and upgrades its cloud file storage platform". 14 July 2020. https://siliconangle.com/2020/07/14/nasuni-raises-40m-upgrades-cloud-file-storage-platform/.
9. ↑ "PE-Backed Nasuni Acquires Multi-Cloud Data Services Company DBM Cloud Systems". 3 May 2022. https://www.channele2e.com/investors/mergers-acquisitions/nasuni-acquires-dbm-cloud/.
10. ↑ infotech; infotech (2022-06-29). "Nasuni buys Storage Made Easy" (in en-US). https://infotechlead.com/networking/nasuni-buys-storage-made-easy-73230.
11. ↑ Simon Rowley (2024-07-10). "Nasuni announces strategic growth investment" (in en-US). Data Centre & Network News. https://dcnnmagazine.com/news/nasuni-announces-strategic-growth-investment.
12. ↑ Bradbury, Danny (25 May 2015). "Death of a middleman: Cloud storage gateways – and their evolution". https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/25/cloud_storage_gateways/.
13. ↑ Linden, Josh - "Company Profile: Nasuni " \- StorageReview.com \- 24 July 2015
14. ↑ Yu, Johnny - "Cloud file storage still nascent, but growing quickly" \- SearchStorage \- 22 Feb 2021
15. ↑ Dolan, Kerry - "Lab Validation Report - Nasuni: Cloud NAS for the Distributed Enterprise" \- Enterprise Strategy Group - March 2015
16. ↑ Sliwa, Carol - "Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding" \- TechTarget SearchStorage - September 2017
17. ↑ Rogers, Bruce - "Will Andres Rodriguez' Nasuni Be The Next Big Cloud Storage Company IPO?" \- Forbes \- 11 Feb 2014
18. ↑ Mellor, Chris - "Cloud storage bods Nasuni ram BILLION-object volume into filer" \- The Register \- 24 Sept 2014
19. ↑ Kranz, Garry - "Nasuni cloud storage moves all-flash, disk appliances to Dell" \- SearchStorage \- 9 Sept 2016
20. ↑ Carol Sliwa - "Nasuni storage adds lower-cost cloud archive service option" \- SearchStorage \- 26 Sep 2018
21. ↑ Tom Smith - "Enterprise File Storage Simplified in the Cloud" \- Insights From Analytics – 8 Feb 2022
22. ↑ Tim McCarthy - "Nasuni expands caching speed, availability for premium users" \- SearchStorage – 14 Sep 2021
23. ↑ E-Channelnews - " Nasuni Makes your Files Accessible from Anywhere" \- eChannelNews – 12 Sep 2022
24. ↑ Chris Mellor - " Nasuni file sync accelerates ransomware recovery" \- Blocks and Files – 14 Sep 2021
25. ↑ Carol Sliwa - " Nasuni file sync accelerates ransomware recovery" \- SearchStorage – 12 Nov 2019
26. ↑ "Method and system for interfacing to cloud storage" \- Justia Patents \- 3 Nov 2014
27. ↑ "Versioned file system with pruning" \- Justia Patents \- 10 Jun 2015
28. ↑ "Versioned file system with sharing" \- Justia Patents \- 12 Oct 2011
29. ↑ "Versioned file system with fast restore" \- Justia Patents \- 1 Mar 2016
30. ↑ "Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes" \- Justia Patents \- 24 July 2018
31. ↑ "Network accessible file server" \- Justia Patents \- 11 February 2020
32. ↑ "Versioned file system with global lock" \- Justia Patents \- 23 February 2021
33. ↑ "Systems and methods for restoring an interface to a global file system" \- Justia Patents \- 23 February 2021
34. ↑ "Versioned file system using structured data representations" \- Justia Patents \- 13 October 2021
35. ↑ "Cloud-native global file system with constant-time rekeying" \- Justia Patents \- 13 October 2021
36. ↑ "Cloud-native global file system with reshapable caching" \- Justia Patents \- 13 October 2021
37. ↑ "Cloud Enabler of the Year" \- Storage Magazine \- 06 June 2024
38. ↑ "Judges in this year's Products of the Year competition tap the best cloud storage products for enterprises" \- SearchStorage \- 14 Feb 2022
39. ↑ "CRMI Honors 35 Service Organizations for Delivering ‘World-Class’ Customer Service" \- Customer Relationship Management Institute \- 01 April 2021
40. ↑ "Origin" \- About Nasuni \- 25 September 2020

## External links

* Nasuni Official Website

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