Nasuni launches encrypted, multi-cloud, versioned virtual NAS

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13 points·jnoller··9 comments

I initially thought this was a cool idea then went off it - I'm fairly happy using local storage on my home network backed up to multiple "cloud" locations (svn hosting, Carbonite and Mozy). This gives me speed to access stuff with a fairly high degree of resilience.

My guess is that it uses OpenSolaris in some form under the hood. Just like Nexenta does.

By any chance does it work with iSCSI or is it just regular SMB?

Currently; the Filer works with regular CIFS. NFS support it on the roadmap.

I ask that because with iSCSI support, I can easily run all my VMWare ESX servers off the device. The VMs aren't that big (20-40GB each) and if it mirrors block-level to a remote location, then it saves small biz the cost of buying a SAN (20k-100k) expense. If it did iSCSI, I would buy this in a heartbeat.

I'll definitely share this feedback with the team, thank you.

This seems more like a press-release. flagging it.

Disclaimer: I am an employee.

While I linked to the press release; I felt that it was relevant to HN especially given that Amazon S3 just announced versioning for S3, this is a versioned, encrypted file system on top of S3, and other cloud storage vendors.

Additionally; it's a startup using cool technology. Maybe I could have linked to: http://www.nasuni.com/resources/white-papers/ instead?

I suggest a 200 words version that explains exactly why we should care.

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