Accelerated Returns: How Nasuni’s ROI Increases as Enterprises Scale

Here’s a familiar story: enterprises grow, their data sprawl accelerates, storage capacity expands, and costs spiral out of control. Traditional NAS and backup infrastructure demand upfront capital investment, ongoing operational expense, and hidden costs tied to inefficiency, lost productivity, and downtime. The result: scaling becomes more expensive, not more strategic.

Nasuni is rewriting that story. By replacing legacy file storage and protection with a single, cloud-native platform powered by UniFS®, enterprises eliminate capacity limitations, boost performance, and achieve meaningful cost reductions — while creating a scalable, resilient data foundation that drives agility and AI readiness. Nasuni is the leading next-gen NAS and unstructured data management (UDM) platform that delivers better ROI as your data and locations grow… and for good reason. We make scaling not just possible, but profitable.

Let’s break down the different ways our customers achieve these savings and more.

Lower Storage Costs Through Modernization

Legacy file infrastructure stacks up costs across production storage hardware, transfer infrastructure, and data center overhead. Nasuni’s hybrid cloud model changes that equation by storing a “gold” copy of all files in cost-efficient object storage, removing redundant versions, and caching active files locally for fast access. 

When Dow migrated from their legacy NAS environment to Nasuni, they unlocked significant cost savings and performance improvements. Files that once took 10 minutes to open now load in seconds. 

Tony Rubenacher, Dow’s IT Director, said, “We were able to install the Nasuni appliances globally and take advantage of blob storage in Azure, which has resulted in an optimized environment from a cost perspective, an efficiency, and a performance, and a security perspective.” 

Maximize ROI by Storing Data in Your Own Cloud

SaaS collaboration platforms like Microsoft SharePoint or Dropbox are flexible — but they can come with expensive overages and rigid subscriptions. With Nasuni, enterprises keep their data in their preferred cloud(s) and connect SaaS tools directly to it, eliminating silos and reducing total costs by up to 30%. This architecture delivers control, cost efficiency, and global access without vendor lock-in. 

Gain Visibility to Plan Smarter

Most forecasting tools err on the side of costly over-provisioning. Nasuni changes that with built-in analytics and intelligent dashboards that provide deep visibility into data health, usage patterns, and capacity needs. Features like chargeback reporting, capacity planning, and operational forensics allow IT leaders to make smarter, data-driven decisions — a critical capability as budgets tighten. 

GeoVerra used Nasuni to scale storage needs up or down dynamically, avoiding costly overprovisioning and gaining better insight into their unstructured data environment. 

Eliminate Backup Costs and Accelerate Recovery 

Backup and DR infrastructure is often one of the largest hidden costs in traditional file systems. Nasuni’s Continuous File Versioning® eliminates the need for separate backup or DR products. Immutable snapshots protect your data, enable instant recovery, and provide 15-minute disaster recovery objectives — drastically reducing both costs and downtime. 

LEO A DALY cut $700,000 in backup costs while improving recovery points and recovery times. It’s a resilience upgrade that pays for itself. 

ROI That Compounds as You Scale

Each cost-saving use case — infrastructure reduction, smarter capacity planning, backup elimination, and SaaS consolidation — delivers measurable ROI on its own. But the true power of Nasuni comes from compounding returns at scale: 

• Global architecture studio, Perkins & Will, has increased their cloud footprint by 10x and saved 60% compared with the costs of continuing with traditional infrastructure 

• Over five years, engineering consultancy firm The Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, (SMEC) has saved 67% relative to legacy solutions by moving its file data to object storage, eliminating file backup, and streamlining its file infrastructure 

• Nasuni reduced costs and resource usage by almost 50% for the McLaren Construction Group 

Accelerated ROI Today. Strategic Advantage Tomorrow.

Every example above points to the same outcome: when enterprises consolidate file storage, protection, and management with Nasuni, ROI grows stronger over time. What starts as immediate cost reduction — eliminating backup, cutting infrastructure spend, simplifying operations — becomes a foundation for long-term value. 

As your data footprint expands, Nasuni scales with it, unlocking greater efficiency instead of higher costs. And because that same architecture unifies and governs data globally, it positions organizations to move faster — whether enabling global collaboration or powering tomorrow’s AI initiatives. 

In short: the more you grow, the greater your return. 

Book a demo today and see how Nasuni can turn today’s cost pressures into tomorrow’s strategic advantage.