About Nasuni
Bringing fluidity to legacy data infrastructure
The traditional data center is no longer the center of data. Data is growing, teams are more distributed, and threats are proliferating. The result? Rigid infrastructures can’t keep up, and the resulting friction has become an accepted cost of doing business.
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We’re out to change that. We built Nasuni to remove the friction that keeps your data from fully serving you. That means helping your teams seamlessly collaborate from anywhere — and are able to ready your data for the monumental shift to AI.
Our mission
Before the cloud was even called the cloud — and people thought the only benefit was lowering storage costs — Nasuni Founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez recognized massive potential to bring new solutions to old problems.
Andres was excited by the idea of object storage in the cloud — it was infinitely scalable and much cheaper than legacy storage infrastructure.
The cloud can help users scale and use data — but high costs, interoperability issues, and hardware-bound NAS management has prevented companies from achieving those benefits.
The missing link was a global file system that worked much differently than traditional NAS. The previous obstacle to using object storage for files in use was it was slow to update. That’s where the big breakthrough came: instead of updating core files, Nasuni built a system where infinite snapshots of those files were created, instead of changing the core files themselves.
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What we believe
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It shouldn’t be exponentially harder to scale — especially as you accumulate mountains of unstructured data. Object storage uses metadata instead of file structure for retrieval, removing the constraints of file hierarchies for effortless scaling.
Object storage costs pennies on the dollar, but traditionally wasn’t used for file management because it could be slower to update and less immediately consistent. We figured out a way to change that using a system that takes a ‘snapshot’ of every change, resulting in a quicker, more cost effective file management system.
The world isn’t moving in the direction of ‘everyone sits in the same office.’ Global opportunities, remote work, and other trends mean that teams are more distributed than ever before.
Managing hardware in multiple locations, manually backing up files, and protecting files from breaches and disasters — these all require significant IT support. The Nasuni File Data Platform automatically backs up files, disaster recovery happens in seconds to minutes, and ransomware is quickly contained and neutralized at the edge.
An incremental approach is better than one that never happens. We’ve made it easy to move file management to Nasuni — as much or little as you want to start, and without disrupting end user access. Our award-winning support and high NPS scores attest to the quality of our support and migration services.
Founding principles
Since the company was founded in 2009, Nasuni has evolved and advanced. We’ve been called a gateway, a cloud NAS solution, a cloud file services platform. But that fundamental cloud-native innovation has not changed, and we’ve remained true to our founding beliefs that Nasuni should:
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Scale to fit all files and locations globally
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Drastically reduce storage costs
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Eliminate separate backup and DR
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Offer access from any location
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Support any level of performance
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Accelerate global file collaboration
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Allow customers to use any cloud they want
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Provide powerful centralized management
The result? Our little storage startup that began with a breakthrough idea is now servicing 10,000+ locations with 27 billion files under management. And we’re just getting started.
Nasuni currently supports more than 800 enterprise customers, including numerous Fortune 500 companies, in over 70 countries.
Nasuni leadership
Our leadership team brings deep expertise and passion for technology and significant experience growing technology companies from early stage to billion-dollar-plus valuations.
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Paul Flanagan
CEO
Read bioPaul Flanagan is responsible for all aspects of Nasuni’s global operations. He has built a world-class team of innovators who have built a software-defined platform which allows mid-to-large enterprise companies to bring structure and control to the chaos of unstructured data.
Nasuni is the third company which Paul has helped lead from very early stage to well over $100M in revenue, with the other two enjoying successful public offerings and achieving valuations in excess of $1B. He has served as CEO at Rave Mobile Safety (now part of Motorola Solutions) and StorageNetworks (IPO: Nasdaq), CFO at VistaPrint (IPO: Nasdaq), and VP of Finance at Lasertron (Acquired: Corning) and Vitol Gas and Electric (Acquired: Coral Energy). Paul has raised well over $1B in equity and debt financing to help build these companies.
Paul has also spent 13 years as co-founder and managing director at Sigma Prime Ventures and 18 years as a managing director at Sigma Partners, where he led investments in Wordstream (acquired: Gannett), Bionx (acquired: Ottoboch), ReThink Robotics, High Street Partners (acquired: HG Capital/Nair), Contently, NS1(acquired: IBM) and Ceros (acquired: Sumeru). Paul is also a founding investor and board member for Nasuni.
Paul is also a recovering CPA, having started his career at Ernst & Young and spending almost 10 years in the Entrepreneurial Services Group. He graduated with a degree in accounting from Bentley University.
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David Grant
President
Read bioDavid Grant is responsible for all field operations, which include sales, marketing, alliances, professional services, customer success and experience.
Dave is a veteran marketer with 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles at software companies – from startups to multibillion-dollar operations. He joined Nasuni from Veeam Software, where he was the senior vice president of global marketing. Prior to Veeam, he served as the vice president, marketing at VMware. Dave also served as the CMO at two startups. Desktone, acquired by VMware, and Watchfire, acquired by IBM.
Dave has a master’s in finance from Dalhousie University and a bachelor’s in marketing from Saint Mary’s University.
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Andres Rodriguez
Founder & CTO
Read bioNasuni Founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez brings passion and energy to his role refining and communicating Nasuni’s technology strategy.
Andres was previously Founder and CEO at Archivas, creator of the first enterprise-class cloud storage system. Acquired by Hitachi Data Systems, Archivas is now the basis for the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP). After supporting the worldwide rollout of HCP as Hitachi’s CTO of File Services and seeing the Archivas team and technology successfully integrated, Andres turned his attention to his next venture, Nasuni (NAS Unified). Delivering value-added enterprise file services on top of cloud object storage was the natural progression of Andres’ cloud storage vision.
Before founding Archivas, Andres was CTO at the New York Times, where his ideas for digital content storage, protection, and access were formed. He joined The Times through its acquisition of Abuzz, the pioneering social networking company Andres co-founded.
Andres has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a Master of Physics degree from Boston University. He holds numerous patents and is an avid swimmer.
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Pete Agresta
Chief Revenue Officer
Read bioPete is responsible for growing and scaling the revenue-generating organization for Nasuni including worldwide Sales and Solution Engineering, and Channel Sales.
Pete has a wealth of experience building and leading high-performing teams for organizations at all stages and sizes. Most recently, he was the Vice President of Enterprise Sales for Pure Storage, where he led a team that more than doubled the business to over $1B during his 4-year tenure. Prior, he was Chief Revenue Officer for LookingGlass Cyber, where he helped recapitalize the company, acquired and commercialized a threat intel platform, and grew the business over 50%. Earlier in his career, Pete spent a decade at Cisco Systems, leading the Global Financial sales teams in various sales and sales leadership roles and 7 years on Wall Street at AllianceBernstein, a leading global investment firm, as Managing Director for Middle Market Sales.
Pete lives just outside of NYC, is married and raising 4 kids. He holds a BA from Siena College and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.
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Dean Breda
Vice President & General Counsel
Read bioDean oversees Nasuni’s legal function, bringing over 25 years of general counsel experience in fast growing technology companies to the role. Prior to Nasuni, he most recently served as general counsel for HackerOne, a hacker-powered security platform.
Dean was also general counsel of both Veracode, until its sale to CA Technologies, and Zipcar, assisting in both the company’s IPO and its sale to Avis Budget Group. He has also served as general counsel for several other leading technology firms, including Demandware, VistaPrint and StorageNetworks.
Dean has a B.A in Management from University of Massachusetts-Amherst and J.D. from the University of Connecticut.
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Nick Burling
Sr. Vice President, Product
Read bioNick Burling is the Senior Vice President of Product at Nasuni where he is responsible for defining and executing on the roadmap for Nasuni’s portfolio of innovative hybrid cloud storage offerings, and for developing an ecosystem around those offerings to maximize Nasuni’s value for our customers.
Nick is an accomplished entrepreneur and IT product executive with experience in managing all phases of the product lifecycle. He has a proven track record in identifying new market opportunities, defining strategic vision, and executing on that vision to capture market share. Nick’s background includes broad experience building and leading winning product teams with Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft and IBM, and in leading startups from launch to successful exit.
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Raymond Hale
Chief Financial Officer
Read bioRay has more than 20 years of financial and operational leadership experience across multiple industries, with an emphasis on scaling emerging technology companies. Prior to rejoining Nasuni, Ray held the position of Chief Financial Officer at Clinc, Inc., a conversational artificial intelligence platform which enables enterprises to utilize natural language processing to power exceptional customer experiences. Prior to Clinc, Ray was Vice President of Finance at Nasuni for nearly five years.
Prior to Nasuni, Ray led the global finance team at Demandware, Inc., (IPO: NYSE) the category-defining leader of enterprise cloud commerce solutions, where he saw the number of employees grow from 150 to 800 and annual recurring revenue increase from $20 million to $230 million, whilst completing three successful acquisitions. Ray supported the initial public offering and follow-on offering, which raised approximately $300 million and resulted in a market capitalization of over $3 billion.
Ray holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Seton Hall University and a Master of Business Administration from Providence College.
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Barrie Kuza
Vice President, Customer Experience
Read bioBarrie Kuza leads Nasuni’s Customer Experience team whose goal is to be the voice of the customer within Nasuni. We work cross functionally to make sure that every customer interaction with the product and people of Nasuni is great.
Barrie has been a tireless advocate for Nasuni customers since joining the company in 2011 as a Senior Technical Support Engineer. Her role has grown steadily, mirroring Nasuni’s growth, and she has taken on a variety of customer-facing positions including Manager, Technical Support; Senior Director, Technical Operations; Vice President, Customer Success; Vice President, Product Management; and Vice President, Customer Experience.
Barrie is known as a technically skilled, customer-focused executive with a track record of building support and technical relationship management teams that enhance customer success. Before Nasuni, she built and launched the technical support programs at Idiom Technologies and several other early-stage companies. Barrie began her career as a software developer before realizing she loved working with and supporting customers more.
An avid hiker and traveler, Barrie is also a mother of four. She holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Brandeis University.
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Matt McDonald
Sr. Vice President, Engineering
Read bioMatt McDonald is responsible for product development, quality assurance, and release engineering at Nasuni.
Matt is a data storage expert and owns a number of patents related to distributed object storage. Upon joining Nasuni in 2010 as part of the architecture team, he designed and developed the backbone of the Nasuni UniFS global file system. Before Nasuni, he was a Lead Architect and Development Group Manager at Archivas through its acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems. Archivas is now the basis for the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP).
Matt began his career in Data General’s CLARiiON group, which was acquired by EMC. From the EMC CLARiiON group, he moved to the EMC Centera group, where he helped build one of the first large-scale distributed object storage systems, tackling various technical challenges related to storing large numbers of objects.
Matt has a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an MBA degree from Babson College.
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Kathleen Parrish
Chief People Officer
Read bioKathleen Parrish leads all strategic HR functions in support of Nasuni’s aggressive growth and revenue goals.
Kathleen has 20 years of HR leadership experience in a diverse mix of industries and companies, from globally recognized brands such as Royal Caribbean to growth-driven technology startups. She has overseen employee relations, managed and supported large, complex organizations with employees distributed around the world, and guided companies through tremendous growth periods. Most recently at Demandware, Kathleen grew the company from 200 to more than 1,000 employees through its initial public offering, while also building a culture of engagement, agility, and innovation.
Kathleen is now building that same culture at Nasuni. Working as a strategic partner to all key business functions, she assists with the planning and forecasting of the company’s needs, acquires and retains talent across all departments, and provides management training, leadership development and other key functions for our fast-growing company.
A dog-lover and avid traveler who has visited more than 50 countries, Kathleen has a BS degree in Business from Northeastern University.
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Asim Zaheer
Chief Marketing Officer
Read bioAsim Zaheer is responsible for scaling Nasuni’s global go-to-market strategy. In particular, Zaheer will be focused on Nasuni marketing functions including demand generation, awareness marketing, product marketing, EMEA marketing and customer marketing. Zaheer brings over 25 years of technology marketing experience from companies of all sizes. Prior to Nasuni, he served as CMO of Glassbox and spent more than 10 years as CMO of Hitachi Vantara, helping launch the company and drive its multi-billion-dollar IT business.
Asim holds a BS from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the University of Hartford.
Our partners
Use any cloud you want
We work with the leading public and private cloud providers, technology partners, and resellers.
Scale file data and enhance enterprise-level incident management, reporting, and response with Nasuni + Microsoft
Consolidate NAS and file server silos in Amazon S3 for half the cost of traditional infrastructures
Save 70% over the cost of traditional file infrastructure when you use Nasuni to consolidate, manage, and protect files in Google Cloud
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Careers
Join a company that’s big on growth
We’re determined to change the way enterprises store, share, and protect files, and our business is growing faster than ever. Add in our culture of engagement, agility, innovation, and support, and you’ll work, play, and grow with a diverse global collaborative team.
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Partners
Grab a massive opportunity with channel-only sales
Looking for a straightforward sell? Unstructured file data is exploding and traditional hardware-bound NAS solutions can’t keep up. Nasuni is the only solution that helps companies scale file management effortlessly while optimizing costs. We’re growing quickly and our customers love us.
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News | September 06, 2024
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News | September 05, 2024
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Nasuni’s Russ Kennedy is featured in this Expert Panel prompt on managing high turnover among tech teams.
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News | August 27, 2024
Storage News Ticker — Nasuni Media & Advertising Momentum
Chris Mellor discusses Nasuni’s latest news and growth in the Media & Advertising sector.
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News | August 26, 2024
Tech Leaders Eye Bigger IT Budgets in 2025
Nasuni’s Jim Liddle discusses how enterprises can maximize their IT budgets in 2025 and beyond.
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News | August 21, 2024
Heard on the Street – 8/21/2024
Nasuni CINO Jim Liddle lends commentary on California’s recent AI regulation bill.
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News | August 21, 2024
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Nasuni’s Russ Kennedy pens to Forbes to discuss how AI can be used in an ESG-friendly way.
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