The Walsh Group Enhances File Collaboration and Data Protection with Nasuni
About the Walsh Group
The Walsh Group is a fourth-generation family-owned business that provides design, build, finance, and operational services for large construction projects across the U.S., including the LaGuardia Airport redevelopment in New York. With over 4,000 employees working across 80 locations, the Walsh Group required a robust solution to manage its growing data needs.The challenge for the Walsh Group
The Walsh Group faced numerous challenges in managing its data infrastructure.
Traditional NAS systems proved inefficient for managing massive volumes of data across 80 locations. File collaboration was slow, file recovery was cumbersome, and backup processes were complex and inflexible. Ensuring secure access for remote workers and efficiently setting up temporary job sites was also challenging.The Walsh Group required a cloud-first, scalable solution to reduce file recovery times, simplify IT management, and improve collaboration across offices and job sites to meet growing demands.
How Nasuni helps the Walsh Group
Nasuni Enterprise Cloud Services empowers the Walsh Group to streamline file infrastructure management, ensuring fast file recovery, enhanced security, and improved collaboration.
Nasuni Provides Rapid File Recovery and Data Protection.
Nasuni’s built-in file backups allow IT teams to restore lost or corrupted files in minutes instead of days or weeks. The Walsh Group can now quickly identify the correct version of any file and restore it without reliance on traditional backup systems. Continuous File Versioning eliminates the need for complex backup infrastructure, making file recovery fast and efficient.Enable Seamless Collaboration Across Offices and Job Sites.
Nasuni’s ability to cache frequently accessed files locally while storing master copies in the cloud has improved collaboration across the Walsh Group’s dispersed teams. Engineers and project managers can now securely access and edit large files from multiple locations as if they were stored locally. This improved collaboration has eliminated travel costs and ensured employees can work efficiently from any site.With Nasuni, There’s A Fast and Simple Job Site Setup.
The Walsh Group’s IT team can now provision new job sites within 24 hours. Using Nasuni Edge Appliances, the firm can rapidly deploy virtual servers, connect them to Amazon S3 storage, and enable secure collaboration with minimal hardware investment.Improved Bidding and Project Efficiency.
The Walsh Group leverages Nasuni’s cloud-based file management to retrieve historical project data for improved bidding processes quickly. The firm can analyze specifications, costs, and challenges by accessing past project details to enhance future project planning and execution.Foster and Enable Remote Work.
Nasuni’s cloud-first approach ensured the Walsh Group’s seamless transition to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Employees accessed project files securely from any location without performance issues, ensuring business continuity.Looking Ahead
The Walsh Group is exploring Nasuni’s multi-cloud capabilities to expand its data management capabilities further and ensure flexibility in vendor selection for analytics, AI, and future data growth.The nice thing about Nasuni is that it’s a darned good product that just works.
The Nasuni difference
Nasuni has empowered Walsh Group to achieve faster recovery times, improved collaboration, and reduced IT complexity. By consolidating file storage and backup infrastructure into a single, unified platform, the Walsh Group has simplified IT management and increased productivity. Nasuni’s flexibility ensures the Walsh Group can expand data storage seamlessly without compromising security or performance.Industry: Architecture, engineering, and construction
Cloud file storage: Nasuni
Object storage: Amazon S3
Use cases: File storage consolidation; storage/backup/DR to the cloud; multi-site collaboration
Benefits: Enhanced productivity through fast file access and collaboration; reduced risk via fast, secure recoveries; seamless transition to work-from-anywhere during COVID-19