Today, the Nasuni Filer officially moves out of its beta period. A free trial of version 1.0 is now available to everyone for download. Trial users can transition into customers and unlock the full power of the Filer, creating multiple cloud volumes and reorganizing their storage with the resources of the cloud behind them.
This is storage 2.0: unlimited, on demand, and a fraction of the cost of traditional storage. We often hear that storage is cheap. “You can buy a terabyte disk for $200” is a common refrain. And, yes, raw disk is cheap. But fast, highly reliable storage is far from it. A terabyte of disk in a SAN costs upwards of thirty times $200.
When Amazon introduced S3, the first public object-store, cost was the driving force that led so many innovative web companies to begin using S3 rather than expanding their own expensive storage facilities. It was easy for these companies to use cloud storage, because the web model of fetching data via HTTP is the same as the cloud’s. Non-web-based businesses have, until now, remained grounded in traditional SAN storage, incapable of reaping the benefits of this revolution in storage.
SAN is not going away. Storage 2.0 is not about eliminating the SAN but about reclaiming it and repurposing it as a local infrastructure that supports the cloud. Unstructured data, the files clogging 70% of a typical SAN, do not belong there. Nasuni puts an end to file sprawl and gets SAN storage back under control.
The Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS that can use your existing SAN as a local storage cache to maximize user access speeds to cloud data, while keeping all unstructured data in the cloud, freeing up the rest of your SAN for transactional storage. With a strategy like this, combining SAN caching with cloud storage, businesses can expect the same level of performance and protection they get from SAN storage, delivered at a fraction of the cost.
Welcome to storage 2.0.