Nasuni sees cloud killing on-premises storage

Cloud storage gateway supplier Nasuni is growing fast as more and more file storage passes through its gateway. 2015 was a solid year for the firm, and, according to Nasuni itself, these were some of its highlights: A record number of new customers in 2015 drove 70 per cent growth in capacity subscription revenue over 2014 …

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One really big clod outage (cloutage?) that hampers business, and half of the PHBs who demanded everything be moved 'into the cloud' will come up with the great idea of an on-premise backup...

[garyblack]

Nasuni sees cloud killing on-premises storage

"One really big clod outage (cloutage?) that hampers business, and half of the PHBs who demanded everything be moved 'into the cloud' will come up with the great idea of an on-premise backup..."

Nasuni sells a service backended into Public Cloud, typically Azure. It offers unlimited snapshots which negates the need for local or centralised backups, and this is one of the top 2 reasons why Nasuni's customers buy the service. MS's datacenters are pretty SOTA and every one of the 80,000 customers who join them per month has a minimum 3 copies of their data made and geo-redundancy between countries, or even continents. Of course, outages happen, but who has the best chance of preventing or recovering from them? The company which does everything in-house with their own budgets or a whopping great behomoth like Microsoft, AWS or Google?

[Mikey]

Hmmm... if the cloud is doing away with local storage... does that mean all the software and data for running the cloudy barn is actually stored elsewhere on someone else's cloud? Will there one day be the cloud infrastructure, but no actual hardware powering it all? THESE are the things which barely keep me awake during the day.

[Pirate Dave]

Ah, no hyphen

From mis-reading the title, I thought this article was about a company peddling cloud-killing storage that is on-premise. But take out that first hyphen and it means something completely different.