Nasuni

What do you like best?

Nasuni has allowed us to build a very disperse (> 160 sites) but yet collaborative and resilient environment. Setting up cross office or cross company collaborative shares is straight forward and quick. Also Nasuni allows us to create "partner" filers in our data center that serve as fail-over sites in case something happens to the remote office. Data is synced at a fairly quick pace (every 5 minutes or so) and so if a local filer goes offline, the employees can still access their data from the partner filer and have their most recent data available to them.

What do you dislike?

Nasuni is not a real-time replication technology. There is a bit of a delay for a new file saved in one location to show up in another. But that can be mitigated with employee education and setting realistic expectations.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Work with the implementation team at Nasuni, be sure to design your file shares to take advantage of global file locking where you need it and talk to others in the Nasuni community about tips and tricks you can leverage.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Nasuni made it possible to decommission our traditional file backup strategy and expense. We no longer need tapes or additional cloud storage capabilities to secure our unstructured data. It also enabled us to maximize our cross office and cross company collaboration efforts - letting us virtually share the same set of files in multiple locations. That way the employees in an office in Anaheim can share files with an office in Orlando, each working on them at local network speeds. And with Nasuni Global File Locking in place, it insures we don't have collisions when working on that same set of files.