
Enhanced productivity for AEC firms with Nasuni
About McKim & Creed
McKim & Creed is a surveying and engineering company with offices throughout the southeastern United States. The company has approximately 850 employees across 26 offices in eight states. Their operations require managing over 100 terabytes of data.The challenge
McKim & Creed needed to overcome data management and collaboration roadblocks.
Before adopting Nasuni, McKim & Creed faced several significant challenges with their data management and collaboration processes. With 26 offices spread across eight states, each office maintained its own file server, leading to inefficiencies and a lack of centralized control. The IT team was to monitor disk space and run backups on 27 separate servers daily, which was highly time-consuming and prone to error. Also, restoring systems was limited to just a few daily options, often making it difficult to recover data quickly and efficiently.McKim & Creed also struggled with collaboration. Project files would often be copied and synched between offices. Still, there was no way to ensure everyone was working on the correct file version, leading to confusion and decreased productivity. McKim & Creed needed a solution allowing users to access files from anywhere, anytime, without the high bandwidth and appliance costs associated with many other solutions. McKim & Creed also needed a way to protect its data from the growing ransomware threat and ensure business continuity in the face of potential threats.
How Nasuni helped McKim & Creed
Nasuni enabled a streamlined migration.
McKim & Creed successfully migrated individual file servers to the Nasuni cloud in a phased process, shutting down old servers after syncing data.Nasuni allowed McKim & Creed to improve its data management drastically.
Nasuni eliminated the need for daily disk space monitoring and server backups by providing a unified cloud backup system.Seamless file sharing enhanced collaboration.
With global file locking and acceleration, teams could seamlessly share and access project files, ensuring a single source of truth. IT Director Charles Douglass said, “Our end users right now are getting increased productivity gains because if a file gets corrupted, they can restore to one that was 15 or 20 minutes ago, and we can do it very, very quickly.”Restoring corrupt files leads to increased productivity:
Nasuni’s quick restoration of corrupted files (within minutes) reduced downtime and enhanced user efficiency.Implementing Nasuni allowed for scalability and consolidation.
Nasuni centralized storage for large file types, such as LIDAR and image processing, and removed the need to expand disk capacity in individual offices.Ransomware recovery provides peace of mind.
Nasuni’s backup snapshots and ransomware recovery capabilities were key to McKim & Creed’s business continuity strategy.The ability that Nasuni has to do the backup snapshots and its ability to do that kind of ransomware recovery, makes me as the IT director very comfortable in the evenings.
Charles Douglass, Director of IT
The Nasuni difference
Nasuni is the ideal partner for organizations looking to streamline data management and enhance collaboration. Our scalable cloud platform consolidates data from multiple locations, ensuring teams can access the most up-to-date files. With global file locking and acceleration, Nasuni eliminates version control challenges and boosts office collaboration. Our solution integrates seamlessly into existing IT systems, offering a cost-effective alternative to expensive applications.Douglass notes, “Nasuni fit into that sweet spot of giving us an advanced technological solution at a price that we could afford that would fit our implementation and fit our overall architecture.”
Nasuni is more than just a storage solution—we are a reliable partner that supports long-term growth and business continuity.
Industry: Architecture, engineering, and construction
Cloud file storage: Nasuni