Fortify, Detect, Recover: Customers Disaster-Proofing their Data with Nasuni

Your data center floods. A power outage takes down your backup site. Cybercriminals are holding your critical systems hostage. These scenarios are the horrors of every IT leader’s nightmares. Traditional disaster recovery (DR) models are built on rigid storage platforms with limited agility in the face of the unexpected. And, without a modern security posture, your business is exposed both to the initial impact of the disaster and to the downtime that results from slow recovery.

Nasuni is the only unified file data platform that gives businesses the strength and flexibility to recover fast from cyberattacks, tech failures, natural disasters, and human error — dramatically reducing operational risk.

Here are all the ways that Nasuni fortifies business resilience, and the real-world results our customers are experiencing.

Proactive protection to neutralize attacks at the edge

Nasuni’s enterprise ransomware protection uses real-time file system analysis and up-to-date threat intelligence to detect known, unknown, and zero-day ransomware variants at the edge. It alerts IT teams of suspicious activity and automatically stops the attack by quarantining active threats before they spread.

Global investment bank, Greenhill, prioritized the safety of their financially sensitive data by adopting Nasuni’s ransomware protection service as soon as it was released. CIO John Shaffer describes the transformation: “Now we have ransomware protection, if we do see something alarming, we get alerts, and we have it set to shut down the offending IP address.”

Because Nasuni’s solution isolates threats early, fewer files need to be recovered. The surgical quality of recoveries relieves the burden on Shaffer’s department: “I’d rather recover 50 files than 500,000.”

Smarter security monitoring with SIEM and SOAR integration

Nasuni’s ransomware protection works like an early warning system, immediately reporting threats and incorporating the logs into broader enterprise SIEM and SOAR systems. This combination of integration and visibility lets SecOps teams in large organizations take immediate action before other applications or infrastructure are impacted. Our detailed audit logs and incident reports streamline investigation, compliance, and recovery, bolstering enterprise cybersecurity.

For AEC firm Highland Associates, strengthening their security position with Nasuni’s ransomware protection came with an additional benefit: they received cheaper quotes for more comprehensive cyber insurance — a key decision-making criteria for their customers. Their Senior IT Director Bruce Sobocinski explains, “We now have a more robust carrier and better coverage, so the investment we made [to protect against] ransomware protection paid for itself.”

Restore affected files in under 30 minutes

When data is corrupted or attacked, Nasuni’s built-in file backups enable rapid restores of individual files, whole shares, or entire volumes to virtually any point in time. Our Continuous File Versioning® technology captures file changes as they occur on edge appliances in all locations, taking continuous snapshots of the file system and storing just the deltas as read-only versions in object storage. Recovery points are reduced to minutes, and recovery times are reduced to seconds.

Leading oil and gas company, Ithaca Energy, came to Nasuni having recently acquired another business, leading to a 250% increase in file data. Ithaca’s reliance on nightly backups to disks and tapes was costly and unreliable. Nasuni provided a modern solution to protect their data and reduce their risk.

“The faster file recovery that Nasuni provides ensures that we can make data available to any of our locations within 30 minutes, which is critical in helping maintain business continuity,” said former IT Operations Manager Malcolm Brown, adding, “Nasuni is a multi-scenario solution. Not just local file storage, backups, or DR. It’s helping us look forward and future-proof.”

Cut Mean Time To Recovery by up to 90%

Nasuni provides “at the ready” cloud disaster recovery, with Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR) measured in minutes, not days. File paths can be failed over quickly to a DR site, then failed back just as easily when needed. The restoration of encrypted files is guided by identifying which data have been affected and to which point in time they should be restored. This eliminates the cost and complexity of dedicated DR sites, co-location facilities, duplicate file infrastructure, and intermittent failover tests.

Corporate sites in natural disaster-prone areas are automatically protected, which became highly relevant for automotive corporation BorgWarner when hurricanes destroyed their infrastructure, as Senior IT Manager, Justin Voytal explains: “You couldn’t get to the plant. All network connectivity, all WAN connectivity—it was gone. It also happened to be month end closing, so kind of a big deal! But with all of that data being in Nasuni, within 10 minutes everyone had access to their data so they never missed a beat.”

Sleep more soundly with Nasuni

Disasters happen. Only by facing them head on, can enterprises prepare for and guard against them to keep mission-critical data available, whatever happens. With Nasuni, you can avoid the avoidable and recover from the inevitable with speed, flexibility, and ease.

And those sleep deprived IT leaders? Well let’s just say there are other benefits of being protected from the nightmare scenarios, as Bruce Sobocinski shares, “honestly, my sleep has gotten a lot better since moving to Nasuni, now that I’m not worrying about failed backups or ransomware.”

Want to turn your worst IT nightmares into sweet hybrid cloud dreams too? Set up a demo with one of our team today.