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Nasuni Offers Cloud Data Storage Gateway

New storage start-up, Nasuni is reaching for the cloud in a new way. As a gateway, the company largely targets backup operations and simple file storage. According to GigaOM, the Natick, Mass.-based startup sells software that looks and acts like a traditional file system but stores data in cloud offerings from Amazon, Rackspace, Nirvanix and Iron Mountain.

"Nasuni's feature set includes thin provisioning, snapshots, deduplication and escrowed encryption, where the data is stored with one cloud provider and the encryption key with another. And rather than getting rid of their existing hardware, customers can keep around a few hundred gigabytes to serve as a local cache or database. According to CEO Andres Rodriguez, managing 1.5TB for three years with Nasuni would cost about half as much as doing so with a low-end EqualLogic array, and far less than an EMC CLARiiON system."