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Nasuni and AWS Provide the Best collaborating on large ‘unstructured’ game NASUNI AT A GLANCE Cloud File Solution for the Booming concept files, designs, and protypes Unlimited file storage Gaming Industry requires cumbersome synching tools, backed by The global gaming market is expected to which can slow down the initial ideation grow to $257B by 2025 from $151B in process. Optimized for large 2020 pushing game studios to continually game build files Nasuni + AWS Cloud File Storage strive to enhance gamer’s experience Nasuni backed by Amazon S3 replaces on-site Near-zero cloud latency more rapidly than their competitors by file servers that need continual maintenances, for end users launching new games and extending backup, and synchronizing to remote existing franchises. Complicating their locations. Nasuni provides cloud file storage Global file synchroni- mission is needing to support multiple, specifically optimized for large, packaged zation and file lock diverse consoles and platforms, such as files such as ISO images, compressed Sony PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Built-in backup with archives, and other development distribu- Switch, and Windows PC, along with unlimited snapshots tions along with other unstructured files mobile devices. required to bring a new game to market. Extensive file protocol While well-known code management By moving files out of legacy file servers support tools exist for developers to check-in and and into a cloud solution, game studios check-out code segments, challenges will have infinitely scalable, dynamic cloud Disaster recovery exist for distributing large ISO game builds file storage to meet the demands of the in minutes or compressed build artifacts quickly and largest gaming builds and production efficiently to remote locations for testing, pipelines, accelerating development and slowing down the entire development shortening QA cycles. Nasuni’s built-in process. These challenges impact distrib- backup, archive, and disaster recovery uted teams, including contracted teams, capabilities protect the intellectual property that may be located a half a globe away of game studios. trying to adapt to follow-the-sun software development methodologies. Additionally, Solution Brief Nasuni and AWS for Gaming Studios

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Game Studio Contractors Remote Team Nasuni backed by Amazon S3 replaces on-site file servers that need continual maintenances, backup, and synchronizing to remote locations specifically optimized for large packaged files.

Nasuni provides a Game Design Collaboration and protected in Nasuni. single, consolidated Storing unstructured files and ISO game builds Easily Integrate Full-Time and Contracted global file system that on local file servers is inefficient for working Teams Anywhere in the World creates a seamless with distributed teams, creating silos of files Due to the booming gaming market, game project handoff that are difficult to share and synchronize. studios are rushing to bring new games to across development With Nasuni and the global coverage of AWS, market, requiring them to bring in developers teams located game-build pipeline files efficiently propagate from around the world, partnering with other anywhere in the to Amazon S3 storage to become a ‘gold copy’ game studios, and hiring short-term contrac- globe, enabling game and available everywhere teams are located. tors. But getting these teams ‘plugged-in’ and studios with a follow- Nasuni provides a single, consolidated global given access to the files they need can take the-sun software days, even weeks to connect all the technical development pieces. With Nasuni, onboarding additional methodology to stay studio resources is as simple as providing competitive. access to the ever-present global file system giving access to only the files they need in a fraction of the time.

With Nasuni and the global coverage of AWS, game-build file system that creates a seamless project handoff across development teams located pipeline files efficiently prop- anywhere in the globe, enabling game studios agate to Amazon S3 storage with a follow-the-sun software development to become a ‘gold copy’ and methodology to stay competitive. In addition to ISO game builds, all types of files, including be available everywhere large ‘unstructured’ game concept files, teams are located. designs, and protypes can be stored, shared,

2 Solution Brief Nasuni and AWS for Gaming Studios Unique Features & Architecture Infinite Backup Nasuni is backed Unlimited File Storage Nasuni Continuous File Versioning® makes by the scalability of Nasuni is backed by the scalability of Amazon S3 file backup more frequent and automatic. Amazon S3 cloud cloud to provide unlimited ‘Snapshots’ of artist’s files are taken every object storage to capacity to an unlimited number of sites 15 minutes, so nothing is ever lost, and a provide unlimited and users. It eliminates the need to ‘second file can be restored to any point-in-time with capacity to an guess” capacity requirements for any one the click of a mouse. You can take and store unlimited number of location or application and adapt seamlessly a nearly infinite number of snapshots, and sites and users. and quickly to changes on-demand for file when needed, dial back to a particular RPO. storage, by simply increasing AWS cloud This makes Nasuni an ideal component to a storage and Nasuni subscription. ransomware mitigation strategy. Near-Zero Cloud Latency for End Users 15-Minute Disaster Recovery Nasuni’s extremely efficient virtual edge ap- It’s easy to restore file access for one or more pliances provide up to a 98% cache hit rate, sites following a disaster thanks to Nasuni’s giving users and applications LAN-speed built-in disaster recovery capability. Nasuni not access to files. Because edge appliances can only stores “gold copies” of files in the cloud run on existing hyperconverged and virtual in immutable read-only format, it also stores infrastructure backed by existing SSD storage, configuration and user data for each site there many customers see an improvement in file too. Simply set up a new edge appliance in any access speed over legacy file servers. Even safe site or the cloud, and within 15 minutes better, Nasuni Edge Appliances reduce the users can begin accessing their files. Meanwhile, footprint for file storage up to 90%, lowering Nasuni’s cloud architecture ensures the rest of costs and eliminating time spent managing your organization operates normally with local file servers. no loss of access to any files. Optimized for Large Game-Build Files Extensive Protocol Support Nasuni Edge Nasuni Edge Appliances are optimized for Nasuni supports access to files through stan- Appliances are transferring very large ISO distributions and dard SMB (CIFS), NFS, FTP/SFTP, HTTPS file optimized for other game development files, from fast sharing protocols. Mixed client environments transferring very cache to the cloud. Data is encrypted, com- with MacOS, Linux, and Windows machines large ISO distributions pressed, and uniquely deduplicated before are supported. Nasuni’s advanced support for and other game moving to the cloud in multi-threaded, parallel extended MacOS file attributes and metadata development files, transfers. Data movement and collaboration allows for easy file sharing across environments. from fast cache to the are greatly accelerated, and cloud storage cloud. costs are kept to a minimum while files re- About Nasuni main protected in immutable cloud storage. Nasuni® is a file storage platform built for This means end users always experience the cloud, powered by the world’s only global Visit Nasuni in fast, local, and secure access to gaming files file system. Nasuni consolidates Network AWS Marketplace from wherever and whenever they need it. Attached Storage (NAS) and file server silos in cloud storage, delivering infinite scale, built- Global File Synchronization and File Lock in backup, multi-site file synchronization, and File synchronization and global file locking for local file server performance, all at half the unstructured team sharing are provided by cost of traditional file infrastructures. Enter- an automated, no-maintenance Nasuni cloud prises use the Nasuni software-as-a-service orchestration center that can synchronize platform for NAS consolidation; backup and millions of file changes per hour and prevent recovery modernization; global file sharing; file conflict across thousands of users. The and rapid, infrastructure-free disaster recovery, result is the ability to share files with team- and as a foundation for data analytics. mates wherever in the world they work while One Marina Park Drive still retaining “ownership” control of the file. Boston, Massachusetts 02210 United States NASUNI, the NASUNI logo, and UNIFS are registered trademarks of Nasuni Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. www.nasuni.com Copyright © 2021 Nasuni Corporation. All Rights reserved. SAL-0183 03/31/01 3