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Consolidation of File Higher Performance File Storage for Multiple Regions Data and Profiles in at a Fraction of the Cost Cloud Storage with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is performance file access. A file services fast, regional VDI access experiencing rapid growth as enterprises platform operating in conjunction with using lightweight Edge Appliances. adopt work-from-anywhere models that AWS, Azure, Citrix, VMware and Workspot can sustain and optimize business opera- VDI clusters makes an ideal solution for Multi-Region VDI File tions through difficult periods. Cloud VDI in mitigating latency, while delivering afford- Sharing with high- particular has experienced rapid growth as able cloud infrastructure. speed, multi-site file syn- chronization and Global it is proving to be an easy, economical way File Lock®. to scale VDI across regions and support Nasuni Cloud File Services for large numbers of end-users working from Cloud VDI Object Storage Durability, home. However, a significant obstacle to Scalability, and Eco- As a modern file services platform built for ® nomics using Azure, Cloud VDI performance continues to be the cloud, Nasuni enables enterprises to AWS, and Google cloud access to file storage. Traditionally, this deploy virtual desktops from all leading storage. has been tied to on-premises file storage vendors with limitless file storage that can hardware. Traditional Network Attached Support for Leading VDI span any number of VDI regions. Com- Platforms from AWS, Storage (NAS) and file server infrastructures, bined with cloud object storage, Nasuni Azure, Citrix, VMware, however, only work well in one location provides VDI file storage that costs up to and Workspot on-prem- and are cumbersome solutions for the 50% less, and offers greater scalability, ises and in the cloud. cloud. If a company’s files remain anchored higher performance, and more flexibility Built-in Backup with to traditional storage infrastructure, the per- than hardware-centric file services built on Better RPO/RTO with formance of the VDI environment suffers. traditional NAS file server, backup, replica- ® Continuous File Versioning The solution is a multi-site file services platform tion, and disaster recovery technologies. to cloud storage. that is based in the cloud. The platform can On-Demand Provisioning be co-located with performance-enhancing so virtual desktops never VDI clusters to deliver economical and high run out of capacity for group shares or home directories. Solution Brief Cloud VDI
We use Nasuni to consolidate our file “services on a mixture of cloud storage platforms. We espe- cially like the fact that under this platform, Nasuni dramatically
reduces risk so that business continuity is maximized. Our engineers no longer suffer from failing hardware.