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Summary of Nasuni Modern Cloud File Services Enables Remote Access to Critical Capabilities for Business File Assets and Remote Administration of File Infrastructure Continuity and Remote Work Anytime, Anywhere A key part of business continuity is main- Consolidation of Primary File Data in Remote File Access taining access to critical business con- Cloud Storage with Fast, Edge Access Anywhere, Anytime tent no matter what happens. Files are Highly resilient file storage is a funda- through standard drive the fastest-growing business content in mental building block for continuous file mappings or Web almost every industry. Providing remote file access. Nasuni stores the “gold copies” browser access, then, is a first step toward supporting of all file data in cloud such Object Storage Dura- a “Work From Anywhere” model that can as Azure Blob, , or bility, Scalability, and sustain business operations through one-off Cloud Storage instead of legacy block Economics using Azure, hardware failures, local outages, regional storage. This approach leverages the AWS, and Google cloud office disasters, or global pandemics. superior durability, scalability, and availability storage of object storage to provision limitless file A remotely accessible file infrastructure sharing capacity, at substantially lower cost. Built-in Backup with that enables remote work must also be Better RPO/RTO with remotely manageable. IT departments Nasuni Edge Appliances – lightweight continuous file versioning must be able to provision new file storage virtual machines that cache copies of just to cloud storage capacity, create file shares, map drives, the frequently accessed files from cloud Rapid, Low-Cost DR recover data, and more without needing storage – can be deployed for as many that restores file shares skilled administrators “on the ground” in a offices as needed to give workers access in <15 minutes without datacenter or back office. to files at local LAN speeds over standard needing stand-by DR sites SMB and NFS protocols, while marginalizing Multi-Region VDI File Nasuni for Business Continuity and cloud latency and data egress fees. Sharing that provides Remote Work Initiatives This unique “cache-from-cloud” approach, high-performance file As a modern file services platform built for the center of which is Nasuni’s cloud-na- access for all locations ® the cloud, Nasuni enables enterprises tive file system UniFS®, is the foundation Remote File Infrastructure to react to unforeseen events with more for the rest of Nasuni’s business continuity Management that speed, agility, and flexibility than hard- capabilities. eliminates need for IT ware-centric, on-premises file services staff to be present in built on traditional Network Attached Storage datacenters (NAS), file server, backup, replication, and disaster recovery technologies. Solution Brief Nasuni for Business Continuity

The ability to share Built-in File Backup with Industry-Leading The cost and complexity of dedicated DR sites, the same data to RPO/RTO co-location facilities, duplicate file infrastructure, “multiple sites makes Nasuni Continuous File Versioning® technol- network connectivity to replicate data, and collaboration and ogy captures file changes as they occur on intermittent failover tests can all be eliminated. disaster recovery Edge Appliances in all locations. By taking Remote File Access straightforward and continuous snapshots of the file system and Nasuni offers two built-in ways to support easy (especially for storing just the deltas as read-only versions in “Work From Home” and mobile workforce end users) object storage, Nasuni can restore individual initiatives, and ensure continuous access to files, whole shares, or entire volumes to virtually file shares if offices become unavailable. —IT Manager any point in time, in any location. First, employees can continue to connect to their local Edge Appliance through the drive mappings on their Windows PCs and Macs. The only additional requirement is a VPN connection to authenticate workers into the local network.

The ‘bread and butter Traditional backup software, media servers, of the Nasuni product tapes, and archival storage, along with their “works excellently, high costs, are no longer needed. Recovery we are able to sync points (RPO) are reduced to minutes, and unstructured data recovery times (RTO) are reduced to sec- across our global onds. IT leaders no longer have to worry if The other option is to use Nasuni Web Access, locations seamlessly’… backup media will still work, or if data can be a web browser application that looks and Our global offices have recovered. Nor will they need to worry about feels like a standard file explorer. Since every stated that Nasuni having personnel on-site to perform backup. Nasuni Edge Appliance includes a remote has made the largest Threats like ransomware can be quickly miti- web access server, remote workers can technological impact in gated by restoring the file system to the point connect to any Edge Appliance using Nasuni our business over the just before the attack. Web Access to create directories, download past 4 years. and upload files, share private and public Rapid, Low-Cost Disaster Recovery links to documents, and carry out most other Because Nasuni uses geo-redundant cloud —CIO daily file sharing tasks. storage as the repository for all files and metadata and because Nasuni Edge Appli- Multi-Region VDI File Sharing ances are merely stateless access points Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and to active data, restoring file access after a Digital Workspace solutions from AWS, Citrix, disaster is fast and cost-effective. , VMware, and Workspot are often deployed on-premises or in the cloud to give In the event of a site or regional disaster, new workers another way to remotely access Edge Appliance VMs can be provisioned in corporate desktops and applications and any safe location – or in the cloud itself – support business continuity plans. However, and rehydrated with file system metadata if file storage isn’t located “close to” each from cloud storage. In less than 15 minutes, pod, zone, or farm of virtual desktops, file workers from the affected site, will be able to sharing performance will suffer and remote view and traverse the file system, while the workers will be unproductive. files themselves are brought into cache in the background to restore file access.

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But here’s the real point: People now “work together in a single file space

across all branches and are in near time sync everywhere, protected with Nasuni’s global file locking service to prevent two people on different sites working on the same

file. By sharing links using the web-ui of Nasuni, we can invite Remote File Infrastructure Management About Nasuni customers and part- From IT’s perspective, the biggest advantage ® Nasuni is a file services platform built for the ners to collaborate Nasuni offers may be the ability to remotely cloud, powered by the world’s only global file with us seamlessly manage global file infrastructure. As a soft- system. Nasuni consolidates Network At- on files and folders. ware-defined solution that leverages existing tached Storage (NAS) and file server silos in virtual infrastructure and cloud resources, cloud storage, delivering infinite scale, built-in —Head of IT Nasuni eliminates the need to “rack and backup, multi-site file synchronization, and stack” hardware, build file servers, rotate local file server performance, all at half the media, and perform other tasks that may be cost of traditional file infrastructures. Enter- physically impossible in a disaster scenario. prises use the Nasuni software-as-a-service Whether the Nasuni platform is deployed fully platform for NAS consolidation; backup and on-premises, fully in the cloud, or in a hybrid recovery modernization; global file sharing; cloud configuration, the Nasuni Management and rapid, infrastructure-free disaster recov- Console enables administrators to remotely ery, and as a foundation for data analytics create cloud storage volumes; provision Edge and multi-cloud IT initiatives. Appliances; add users; expand capacity; set- up shares; configure snapshots; recover files, and monitor status, all through a web browser.

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