Snapshots – Topics

Nasuni’s Disaster Recovery to the Rescue (Again)

We’re never happy when one of our customers goes through a disaster or work disruption of any kind. Several months ago we heard of another event where our Filer’s built-in backup and disaster recovery saved one of our customer’s data. A storage administrator at one of our enterprise accounts was working on one of their VMware ESX virtualization platforms and made a potentially catastrophic mistake. One of the great advantages of virtualization is the ability to create new machines on demand. IT often does…

Nasuni Tech Field Day Presentation: The Cloud Inside the Data Center

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.

Disaster Recovery

Get back up and running quickly. Do you have a recovery plan that allows you to recover in minutes and reduces the pain and cost of bringing critical data back online?

Backup-less File Servers

In the 90s the single biggest backup challenge was the protection and restoration of databases. At the time, these were the heart of an organization. Fast forward to the present, and find that while databases are just as important, file data has become equally important. The amount of data that users create and update on a daily basis is staggering. Backing up and protecting file based data has become a nightmare for backup administrators and backup application developers alike. Solutions from companies…

Restoring Files and Folders with Nasuni Filer

Nasuni gives you the ability to travel back in time to instantly recover a file, folder, or directory. In the following video, we'll show you how to restore a file using this feature.

How to Setup and Configure Snapshot Retention

How to Setup and Configure Snapshot Retention Snapshot Retention gives you the ability to keep all snapshots or delete snapshots based on time or quantity. This is especially useful if your organization has formal data retention policies or compliance rules. In the following guide, we'll walk through the process of setting a retention schedule by date as well as number of snapshots. Step 1: Navigate to the "volumes" tab, then click "Volume Properties." Step 2: The "Volumes Properties" page displays various…

Nasuni's Snapshot File Protection

Nasuni protects your data using snapshots. In the following video we'll show you how Nasuni's snapshot file protection gives you granular control over how often snapshots are taken, and how easy it is to recover data using snapshots.

Why the Best Backup is No Backup

Backup as we know it is dead! Really? Well, at the very least it is evolving with the emergence of technologies with the cloud built-in. So while backup is not yet dead, technologies leveraging the cloud can and will make back up obsolete. Provocative…yes. Impossible…. Not if you’re Curtis Preston author of a courageous piece on using snapshots and replication as an alternative to backup or Andres Rodriguez author of an intriguing blog post on this topic.

Listen to cutting edge cloud storage thought leader and storage veteran Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni.com as he delves into the destruction of backup as we know it.

Learn how to use cloud storage to:

Alleviate resource constrained IT teams
Transform backup from cumbersome to simplistic
Revolutionize data protection and disaster recovery processes
Create a backup system based solely on snapshots and replications
Adhere to industry regulations regarding data retention, privacy, and security

In short, turn the impossible into possible.

The Deletion Dilemma

How should your organization deal with the issue of data deletion?

Suppose you are the IT manager of an organization and you have set up shares on network attached storage for your users. Now suppose your users delete their files as needed. Should the files be permanently deleted from your storage and backup medium?

The answer to this question is not a simple yes or no.

Nasuni Announces Snapshot Retention Functionality for Filer Platform

Cloud gateway provider Nasuni announced the latest addition of the Filer platform, which allows IT administratorssto set and automatically enforce policies governing how long data stored in the cloud can be recovered after it is deleted. The snapshot retention feature allows organizations to employ the benefits of a cloud-backed file server – including automated data protection, full redundancy and infinite scalability – while also gaining control over the permanent deletion of data to help mitigate compliance, legal and security risk.

Topic: Snapshots