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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 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 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.

Use Case #1: Global NAS & File Server Improved, Automatic Data Protection Consolidation In either use case, Nasuni frees IT to focus on Nasuni consolidates all file data in scalable, higher-value work through automated, built-in secure object storage, such as Azure Blob ‘snapshots’ taken at predetermined intervals. Storage, Amazon Simple Storage Service This Continuous File Versioning model of (S3), or . In each data protection enables files to be restored to cloud VDI region, small-footprint virtual ma- virtually any point in time. Traditional backup chines — Nasuni Edge Appliances — cache software, media servers, tapes, and archival files as needed to ensure that data is quickly storage, along with their high costs, are a accessible to the virtual desktops. Since the thing of the past. Recovery Point Objectives VDI instances are close to the files, end-us- (RPO)s are reduced to minutes, and Recovery ers enjoy LAN-speed performance. Time Objectives (RTO)s are reduced to seconds. Use Case #2: Global File Sharing & Powerful Business Continuity Tools Collaboration The virtualization of the entire platform in Once file data is consolidated in the cloud, the cloud, from desktop compute through Nasuni Global File Manager ensures orga- file storage and data protection, streamlines nizations can share the same files across business continuity and supports work-from- multiple VDI regions by keeping everything anywhere models. The cloud VDI environ- synchronized. This allows for true distributed ment is no longer vulnerable to losing a single team collaboration and boosts the productiv- file server in a specific region. Nor does IT ity of workers, as end-users in different loca- need to replicate file systems across regions tions are no longer saddled with long delays and to ensure redundancy. frustrating file transfers. In addition, patented Turning on a new office region is greatly sim- Nasuni Global File Lock technology ensures plified, allowing enterprises to offer continued that two people (even in different countries) global file access to all end-users in any type of cannot edit a file at the same time, eliminating business threat, from a local weather disruption version conflicts. to multi-location work-from-home mandate.

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Nasuni Supports Reduce Total Cost of Ownership of VDI File Storage VDI Platform Cloud The cost-saving benefits of using Nasuni for VDI storage are just as important as the technical advantages: • Leverage Cloud: With Nasuni, file data scales in limitless, low-cost cloud object storage, not in expensive, hardware-con- strained block storage. • Shrink Infrastructure: Full-sized NAS, file servers, or VM disk storage at each site are unnecessary. File storage footprint in each VDI region can be reduced by 85-95%. • Eliminate Backup: Nasuni Continuous File

Windows Virtual Desktop Versioning eliminates the need for expensive third-party backup software, media servers, and backup storage. • Simplify IT: The Nasuni Management Con- sole™ greatly reduces IT operational costs, as shares, volumes, and more can be cen- trally created, monitored, and managed. • Minimize Downtime: Nasuni slashes RTOs from days to minutes and mitigates the im- pact of everything from ransomware attacks to accidentally deleted files.

Summary About Nasuni When deploying modern, multi-region cloud Nasuni® is a file services platform built for the VDI, it is essential to have modern file storage cloud, powered by the world’s only global file that can span locations. Nasuni consolidates system. Nasuni consolidates Network Attached NAS and file server silos into the cloud while Storage (NAS) and file server silos in cloud keeping VDI profiles and file shares local, no storage, delivering infinite scale, built-in backup, matter how many VDI zones, pods, or sites multi-site file synchronization, and local file are needed. Nasuni’s multi-site file synchro- server performance, all at half the cost of nization also enables the same files to be traditional file infrastructures. Enterprises use shared across all VDI sites, to boost distribut- the Nasuni software-as-a-service platform ed team collaboration and workforce pro- for NAS consolidation; backup and recovery ductivity even during global disruptions. And modernization; global file sharing; and rapid, Nasuni — with Azure, AWS, or Google object infrastructure-free disaster recovery, and as a storage — will deliver a lower Total Cost of foundation for data analytics and multi-cloud Ownership than any other alternative. IT initiatives.

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