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Faster Collaboration Accelerate Research Collaboration with the Power of the Cloud between global research Now more than ever, pharmaceutical Nasuni Cloud File Storage for and manufacturing companies need to collaborate efficiently Pharmaceuticals locations across research and development centers, Major pharmaceutical companies have manufacturing facilities, and regulatory Unlimited Cloud solved their unstructured data storage, management centers. Critical research Storage On-Demand sharing, security, and protection challeng- and manufacturing processes generate in Azure, AWS, es with Nasuni. terabytes of unstructured data that needs to IBM Cloud, be shared quickly — and protected securely. Immutable Storage in the Cloud Cloud or others elimi- Nasuni enables pharmaceutical com- nates on-premises NAS For IT, this requirement puts a tangible panies to consolidate all their file data in & file servers stress on traditionally siloed storage hard- cloud (e.g. 50% Cost Savings ware and network bandwidth resources. Blob Storage, , Google Cloud when compared to Supporting unstructured data sharing Storage) instead of trapping it in silos of traditional NAS & backup forces IT to add storage capacity at an traditional, on-premises file servers or Net- solutions unpredictable rate, then bolt on expensive work-Attached Storage (NAS). Free from networking capabilities. Yet failing to keep physical device constraints, the combina- End-to-End Encryption up can impact both business and re- tion of Nasuni and cloud object storage secures research and search progress. Long delays waiting for offers limitless, scalable capacity at lower manufacturing data research files and manufacturing data to costs than on-premises storage. 15-minute Disaster transfer over the WAN are not acceptable Capacity on Demand — Everywhere Recovery capabilities at in today’s competitive environment. Every office and research site can take all global locations File growth also strains existing backup advantage of limitless storage capacity while Transformative Data and disaster recovery (DR) plans. Large retrieving frequently accessed files at LAN Insights through a cloud data sets are difficult to back up within a speed. Lightweight Nasuni Edge Appliances, analytics connector reasonable window, yet it is vital to protect which cache active files on-premises, them. Full DR for research file infrastructure provide fast, local access. is expensive to set up and test, but the loss of research or manufacturing data due to an outage can cost millions of dollars. Solution Brief Pharmaceuticals

Nasuni eliminates the need for tradi- tional backup and the constraints of the backup window.

Automated snap- Backup Without Limits Effortless File Sharing shots taken in Nasuni eliminates the need for traditional Nasuni accelerates collaboration and research predetermined backup and the constraints of the backup projects, using the power of the cloud to intervals enable files window. Automated snapshots taken in pre- synchronize files across all sites, and by storing or volumes to be determined intervals enable files or volumes a single gold copy of every file version in the restored to virtually to be restored to virtually any point-in-time. cloud. Patented synchronization technology any point in time. Traditional backup software, media servers, can reduce transfer times for large files from tapes, and archival storage, along with their hours to minutes or seconds, and all sites high costs, are eliminated. Recovery points can access the latest copy of every file, (RPOs) are reduced to minutes, and recovery eliminating duplication and time loss. times (RTOs) are reduced to seconds, regardless of file size. Files are encrypted End-to-End Encryption locally and remain In addition to limitless backup, Nasuni encrypted in transit encrypts files from end-to-end, using mili- and while stored in tary-grade encryption. Files are encrypted

the cloud. locally and remain encrypted in transit and while stored in the cloud. Only the Nasuni client controls encryption keys, which is why Nasuni is used by many healthcare compa- nies in HIPAA compliant solutions. In addition, patented Nasuni Global File Nasuni accelerates Fast Disaster Recovery Lock® technology ensures that two people collaboration and A site outage, regional disaster or distributed (even in different countries) cannot edit a file research projects, disaster can cause costly project interruptions, at the same time, eliminating version conflict. using the power of but Nasuni provides every location with the cloud to 15-minute disaster recovery. Should one site synchronize files go down — or, in the case of a ransomware across all sites. attack, all your sites — a new instance of that site, complete with files that were being worked on, permissions and capacity, can be set up quickly and efficiently.

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Nasuni Capabilities for Pharmaceuticals Nasuni is designed for global organizations that operate in multiple locations and want to take advantage of next-generation file services. Unlimited File Storage Global File Synchronization — Local Network Speed — Capacity— End users Users can access the latest Users will continue to enjoy will never again complain versions of all files from any fast file access at local net- they are out of file server location. work speeds. space.

Global File Locking — Built-in Backup— File changes Disaster Recovery — Researchers and scientists are continually captured in all File access can be restored will be protected from locations for fast, any point-in- in as little as 15 minutes after simultaneously editing the time recovery. a site outage. same file, overwriting each other’s changes, and creating version conflict.

Data Insights About Nasuni The Nasuni platform turns file data into insight Nasuni® is a file services platform built for by tapping into leading-edge analytics, search, the cloud, powered by the world’s only global and AI services being created by cloud providers file system. Nasuni consolidates Network like Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure. These Attached Storage (NAS) and file server silos services open a host of insights and powerful in cloud storage, delivering infinite scale, built- analytics to be able do things like pattern recog- in backup, multi-site file synchronization, and nition, genomic sequencing, and advanced local file server performance, all at half the classification of research. cost of traditional file infrastructures. Enter- prises use the Nasuni software-as-a-service platform for NAS consolidation; backup and recovery modernization; global file sharing; and rapid, infrastructure-free disaster recovery, and as a foundation for data analytics.

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