Global Law Firm Enhances File Accessibility and Collaboration with Nasuni

About Foran Glennon

Foran Glennon is a globally recognized law firm specializing in insurance law, commercial litigation, and real estate law. With offices across the U.S. and internationally, the firm’s attorneys rely on fast, secure, and highly available file access to deliver exceptional client service.

The challenge for Foran Glennon

Foran Glennon needed a modern, resilient file infrastructure to improve recovery speed, enhance security, and reduce costs.

Attorneys required immediate access to files with minimal downtime, but traditional NAS and file storage solutions required complex hardware provisioning, leading to unacceptable delays. File recovery times needed to be significantly reduced, ensuring that lost or deleted files could be restored in under 30 minutes rather than hours or days. The firm also required robust ransomware protection as emerging threats increasingly targeted legal organizations.

Additionally, cross-office collaboration suffered due to slow file transfers between international locations, creating inefficiencies that hindered attorneys’ productivity. Legacy systems created redundant copies of files, increasing storage costs and complicating compliance management. Disaster recovery was another critical challenge, as maintaining separate DR sites across multiple locations was costly and difficult to manage effectively.

To support its growing business, Foran Glennon needed a scalable and cost-effective solution that would provide rapid recovery, reduce redundancies, streamline infrastructure, and enhance security against cyber threats.

How Nasuni helps Foran Glennon

Nasuni Enterprise Cloud Services enables Foran Glennon to accelerate recovery, enhance security, and decrease storage costs while simplifying IT operations.

Nasuni enables immediate file recovery and ransomware protection.

Nasuni’s built-in file backups allow attorneys and IT teams to rapidly restore lost or corrupted files in under 30 minutes, reducing file recovery time by up to 96%. Advanced ransomware detection automatically identifies suspicious file activities, blocking unauthorized access and preventing damage. If an attack occurs, Nasuni enables guided restoration by pinpointing affected files and restoring them to the correct version within minutes.

Seamless disaster recovery with minimal downtime.

Nasuni’s disaster recovery capabilities ensure that if an office experiences an outage, IT can immediately fail over file access to a secondary location, eliminating costly downtime. All files remain available in Microsoft Azure’s geo-replicated storage, allowing attorneys to continue working with no disruptions. Nasuni’s failover mechanism reduces the time spent restoring file access by up to 99% and eliminates the need for dedicated disaster recovery sites.

Nasuni enables an efficient and cost-effective cloud storage solution.

Foran Glennon has reduced redundant file copies and overall storage costs by leveraging cloud object storage. Nasuni’s caching technology ensures that only active files are stored on-premises, while archived files remain securely stored in Azure’s cost-effective cloud infrastructure. The firm now provisions storage on demand, reducing the time required to scale infrastructure.

Fast and secure collaboration across offices.

Nasuni accelerates file synchronization across global offices, enabling real-time collaboration. Attorneys working in multiple locations can now access and edit the latest case files instantly, reducing delays and inefficiencies. With Global File Locking, attorneys avoid version conflicts, prevent accidental overwrites, and ensure seamless teamwork across teams. Large file sharing has also improved by 30%, making document-intensive workflows significantly faster.

Comprehensive security and compliance maintenance.

Nasuni integrates seamlessly with SIEM/SOAR systems, allowing Foran Glennon to monitor all real-time file transactions and security events. Built-in anomaly detection alerts IT teams to unusual file activity, helping to prevent unauthorized data access. The firm has attorneys who also benefit from deployment in a customer-controlled tenant, maintaining exclusive access to encryption keys and preventing unauthorized access

With Nasuni, we’re able to scale capacity instantly, react to unpredictable caseloads, and provide primary and archive file storage, DR, backup, and collaboration—all in one solution. That inspires confidence in the IT department and makes our lives easier every day.

Donna Halac, Manager, Information Technology, Foran Glennon

The Nasuni difference

Nasuni has revolutionized Foran Glennon’s file infrastructure by enabling instant scalability, faster file recovery, and enhanced security. By reducing the mean time to recover from cyber incidents by up to 90%, attorneys and IT teams can now restore files instantly, ensuring business continuity. The integration with Azure cloud storage has drastically lowered storage costs while eliminating file redundancies and optimizing infrastructure usage. Foran Glennon’s IT team now spends significantly less time managing storage, focusing instead on proactive security and innovation. Seamless collaboration between offices has transformed workflows, with attorneys gaining fast, reliable access to files across locations.

Looking Ahead

Foran Glennon continues to explore additional cloud solutions that enhance client service and reduce internal costs. With Nasuni, the firm is well-positioned to expand seamlessly while maintaining the highest security, efficiency, and productivity levels.

Industry: Professional services

Global file system: Nasuni

Object storage: Microsoft Azure

Sites: 8

Use cases: File Server Consolidation; Global File Collaboration; Cost Effective Archiving

Benefits: Unlimited Capacity On-Demand; 5- Minute RPO and RTO; Fast File Synchronization; 15- Minute Disaster Recovery, 50% Cost Reduction