Nasuni,
a leading provider of
cloud file services, today announced that the
United States Patent and Trademark Office recently issued U.S. Patent No.
10,311,153 for a "versioned file system with global lock" that covers Nasuni
Global File Lock technology.
Nasuni provides
software-defined technology solutions and services that make it possible for
enterprises to overcome their most pressing file-related challenges. To date,
Nasuni has received 10 patents for innovations associated with Nasuni Cloud Files Services and additional patents are
pending. Nasuni's solutions are powered by its patented UniFS® technology, the
first cloud-native global file system.
Nasuni enables enterprises
to modernize their legacy approach to file infrastructure by consolidating
Network Attached Storage (NAS), backup, disaster recovery and WAN acceleration
technologies with one solution that dramatically reduces cost and complexity.
Customers can use cloud object storage as "the new disk" with the performance,
control and security that corporate IT departments have come to expect from the
most robust on-premises file servers. And with Nasuni, organizations can
realize the unlimited capacity, inherent resiliency, geographic reach and
economy of the cloud while still maintaining the most stringent file access
controls.
Users across the globe
enjoy immediate high-performance access to files when using the Nasuni
platform. The "gold copy" of all files reside in cloud storage, while active
files are cached at the edge of the network for immediate, low-latency access.
"One of the most appealing
aspects of cloud technology is that it enables the storage of massive
quantities of data while still allowing for full collaboration between people,"
said David Shaw, chief science officer at Nasuni. "To really make this
collaboration useful, the cloud needs the ability to "lock" files,
such that multiple users around the world can properly hand off data between one
another with the assurance that all contributions are maintained and that all
users see changes as they are made."
Utilizing Nasuni Global
File Lock, users can collaborate with one another when working on even very
large files, like those created by Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk, Microsoft
Office, and Siemens TeamCenter applications. Because only changes to active
files are propagated to the "gold copy" in the cloud and then to other edge
locations, Nasuni delivers extremely high transmission rates that far exceed
those achieved with WAN acceleration and other file synchronization
technologies.
Nasuni Global File Lock
also includes intelligence that determines when a "local lock" at the edge of
the network is sufficient or when a full global lock is required.
Notably, Nasuni offers its Global File Lock as a scalable cloud service.
Nasuni's technology works
with common file-based forms of unstructured data and supports industry
standards, including SMB (CIFS) and NFS file sharing protocols and Active
Directory and LDAP authentication and access protocols. These include the
documents, spreadsheets, and presentations omnipresent in business as well as
industry-specific files such as software code, CAD, and video used in the
architecture, engineering, media, and manufacturing industries.
Leaders in many industry
segments use Nasuni and the patented Nasuni Global File Lock technology to
enable their teams around the world to work more effectively, improve
productivity and save time.
For
more information on Nasuni Global File Lock, visit
https://www.nasuni.com/resource/global-file-locking/