Topic: Data Protection

Solution Brief: Eliminate Backup Challenges with SIaaS

Backup solutions play a critical role in data storage – providing the ability to recover data from an earlier time or after an unexpected data loss. In order for IT to effectively backup, protect and restore data, multiple components are required, including some combination of backup applications, disks and tapes. In the end, today’s best backup solutions still leave IT facing real challenges. Read this solution brief to discover how SIaaS solves the backup dilemma and enables IT to focus on more important tasks.

Nasuni offers unified cloud storage

Nasauni has been promoting cloud storage as a service for a number of years and has been offering a storage appliance allowing customers to safely and securely use this type of service. While powerful, these appliances didn't have the capability to address a number of storage needs. Nasuni unified cloud storage addresses those shortcomings.

Customer Testimonial: Cooley Group

Deploying Nasuni has increased productivity across the Cooley Group by dramatically improving file access and replication across offices, while simplifying the IT infrastructure and delivering better business continuity.

World Backup Day

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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…

Customer Interview: Solving Multi-Site Enterprise Storage Management Challenges

In the following on-site customer webcast, Connor Fee of Nasuni sits down with Mike Driscoll, Senior Information Architect at Walsh Construction to discuss a number of potential solutions to providing storage that is accessible from multiple locations within the enterprise. Mike has seen the company grow from only a handful of offices to almost twenty, and he has personally deployed and managed a number of storage solutions across the organization.

Archive vs. “Archive-ish” Data

Ask anyone in IT to define “archive data” and chances are it would go something like this: “Data that is no longer active, but still needs to be kept around for future reference or regulatory compliance.” You may also get an expletive or two thrown in for good measure. In many organizations, archive data is just that, inactive data – though archive data could include recently active data and data that is 5 years old. When it comes of age, this data is generally moved off to tape or to a slower, out of the network storage…

Health care moving toward cloud storage services cautiously

Hospitals, faced with growing amounts of electronic records and digital images, would seem a good fit for cloud storage services -- but security and other concerns compel health care providers to proceed with caution. One reason for reticence: the government's pursuit of monetary penalties for health care data breaches.

What Have We Learned About Data Storage?

Ten years ago, when the 9/11 terrorist attacks hit the eastern United States, storage and security concerns about business data weren't that different from what we have today. Large enterprises housed their data in mainframes and array clusters, and they had archive tapes carted away to mysterious locations.

Nasuni's Introduces Its Data Protection Service to the IT Channel

Cloud-based storage services solutions provider Nasuni unveiled this week Data Protection, a service aimed at SMBs in need of regular data access, data loss risk mitigation, and data recovery.