Nasuni solves all the challenges of file access, file storage, and data protection for the enterprise. The globalization of business is driving requirements for a new breed of enterprise storage that can securely deliver the same information in many locations, at the same time. Nasuni delivers shared access to all your files, in all your offices, all the time with no risk of data loss -- guaranteed.
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part 1 of this series I outlined the considerations and process required to perform nondisruptive upgrades and migration. In part 2 I describe our most challenging customer case study: direct cloud-to-cloud bulk migration of data between two providers and changes to the protection level of data within a provider. Both cases involved moving large volumes of data outside the customer’s infrastructure and without any disruption to the end-users.
Process in action Let’s take a look at the entire process for one of…
In this Nasuni Tech Talk, Rob Mason discusses how Nasuni can move multiple terabytes of customer data, out of band, with no disruption to users and why this type of nondisruptive migration is only possible with a storage services company.
What It is and What It Isn’t Yesterday Amazon introduced the
AWS Storage Gateway. This move further legitimizes the general approach to provide infrastructure as a service. Cloud storage is an essential component in providing storage services to business and we should expect that Amazon, being the 800 lbs. cloud, will try to make it as easy as possible to bring data into their cloud. In order to gauge the impact of this new offering to the emerging market of enterprise storage services, it is helpful to look at the…
Storage services have the potential to spare customers from the hassle and risks associated with bulk data migration. Enterprise customers demand nondisruptive upgrades to their infrastructure. Traditional storage puts the burden of migration on customers and their physical infrastructure. Storage services shift the stewardship of data to the service provider. This includes software upgrades or something as dramatic as a total replacement of the backend storage. In the first of this two-part series, I lay out…
For years, the traditional storage controller has been a game of RAM and disk. Put the cloud inside and what you have is a third component. In this clip from Tech Field Day 2011 Nasuni CEO, Andres Rodriguez, explains what the next generation of storage controllers looks like and how integrating the cloud changes everything.
At Nasuni we treat cloud storage as a
component for our enterprise storage solution rather than infrastructure. This begs the question of what makes something a component versus infrastructure. It helps to look back at infrastructure that has been around for so long, it has become almost invisible. Think of electricity. In Tom McNichol’s compelling
AC/DC The Savage Tail of the First Standards War he describes the showdown between Edison and Westinghouse over the standard for power in the US. A good…
File services seem to be one of the natural use cases for organizations that are looking for ways to leverage the cloud as part of their IT infrastructures. A popular suggestion has been to use cloud storage as a tier for their unstructured data needs. File services are, after all, one of the more problematic areas for an organization. Going to the cloud as a tier may seem like a good strategy, but it may be pushing cloud storage beyond the practical limits of available bandwidth - as well as beyond the reality of what…
File services seem to be one of the natural use cases for organizations that are looking for ways to leverage the cloud as part of their IT infrastructures. A popular suggestion has been to use cloud storage as a tier for their unstructured data needs. File services are, after all, one of the more problematic areas for an organization. Going to the cloud as a tier may seem like a good strategy, but it may be pushing cloud storage beyond the practical limits of available bandwidth - as well as beyond the reality of what users need.
Instead, what IT Managers may want to consider is on-premise storage that “embeds the cloud”, or the ability to leverage cloud storage as a back end but still enjoy on-premise performance. This would allow users to leverage what each technology can best deliver. In this model the file services offering evolves from a standard on-premise file server that uses a second file server for cloud storage, to a storage controller that has the cloud embedded into the core of the solution. In this model organizations would reap the benefits of protected storage, unlimited capacity and local performance using best of breed technologies that seamlessly work together.
