Nasuni Corporation, a global leader of file data services, announced the acquisition of Storage Made Easy (SME), a renowned file data management company that provides cloud file storage, remote work, and compliance solutions. The transaction's financial specifics are being withheld. Nasuni's acquisition of SME is the company is second in the previous two months, following a $60 million investment earlier this year.
One of today's most difficult challenges for data storage is making files available to users no matter where they are. Access to file data is necessary as companies continue to serve a distributed workforce, including from home and branch offices, as well as field areas with restricted internet connections. Traditional Network Attached Storage (NAS) is inefficient at supporting file access from any location and keeps file data in silos, making search and analytics hard.
"Providing secure, high-performance access to file data from any location while complying with a stringent regulatory landscape is challenging every IT organization. By adding remote work and compliance capabilities to the Nasuni platform through the acquisition of SME, we are giving organizations even more reasons to modernize their file data infrastructures, all while reducing capital and operational costs. This adds further capabilities to our 'work from anywhere' strategy, accelerating our file data services leadership,"
-Paul Flanagan, chief executive officer of Nasuni.
The combination of SME and Nasuni creates a suite of highly complementary, multi-cloud file data services for our customers and partners. Joining Nasuni is a natural move, and the SME team is thrilled to join the company and help advance their leadership in the file data services market, Jim Liddle will join Nasuni as vice president of product, file fabric.
"We deployed Nasuni with AWS object storage a few years ago to replace our on-premises NAS and file backup solutions, and more recently added SME, so the combination makes perfect sense. When the pandemic hit, we realized that we needed a borderless workflow without the pain of VPN to make remote file sharing simple for our users. Nasuni and SME enable our engineers to connect to project shares from home with ease, synchronize files to their desktops for fast access and quickly search large amounts of corporate file data for the information they need,"
-Mike Shepard, enterprise IT architect at RES, the United States' largest ecological restoration company.