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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 object storage such Object Storage Dura- a “Work From Anywhere” model that can as Azure Blob, Amazon S3, or Google 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.