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The com­pany I’ve worked for since July of last year — Nasuni Cor­po­ra­tion (a startup in Mass­a­chu­setts) has gone live! This is the cul­mi­na­tion of a lot of hard, but exceed­ingly fun and excit­ing work over the past months.

The Nasuni team is an excel­lent one — and one I am very, very proud to be a part of. Our prod­uct is called the Nasuni Filer — a simple-to-use, ver­sioned, encrypted and cloud-storage backed vir­tual NAS (net­work attached stor­age) server (click here for more information).

With­out going into all of the fea­tures, our goal in mak­ing this was to make cloud stor­age sim­ple, acces­si­ble and secure — and I know we’ve accom­plished all three. All you do is down­load it, boot it and start using it — once you do so you have access to truly unlim­ited stor­age. It’s an unlim­ited filesys­tem for the cloud. Here’s the ele­va­tor pitch:

Nasuni has devel­oped a vir­tual file server, called the Nasuni Filer, that deliv­ers unlim­ited file stor­age and com­plete file pro­tec­tion for busi­nesses. Work­ing in part­ner­ship with lead­ing cloud stor­age ven­dors, the Nasuni Filer lever­ages the vast capac­ity of the cloud to store and pro­tect com­pany files off­site, while retain­ing the local func­tion­al­ity and per­for­mance of a tra­di­tional NAS.

This tech­nol­ogy allows busi­nesses to use the cloud provider of their choice as a replace­ment for tra­di­tional pri­mary stor­age. Snap­shots, file ver­sion­ing, and off­site stor­age are inte­grated into the file server itself — ensur­ing busi­ness file are safe and secure at all times. No need to man­age com­plex backup and DR schemes — if the file server is run­ning, files are protected.

We’ve launched the Beta of the prod­uct today — any­one can sign up, down­load and use it. Any­one can give us feed­back and sug­ges­tions — I encour­age all of you who might need some­thing like this to down­load and give it a try. If you want — go check out the videos we’ve put together show­cas­ing the Filer (and bet­ter yet — check out the awe­some ani­mated car­toon we have on the front page).

Most of you know that my blog is mainly Python ori­ented. Suf­fice it to say, Nasuni — and the Nasuni Filer make use of Python for a wide range of tasks. We use Python, Django and as much of the Python ecosys­tem as we can to drive every­thing from the web­site, to the GUI on the appli­ance itself — Python is part of the DNA of the com­pany, and it has served us well. With­out Open Source and Python — I don’t think it would have been pos­si­ble to build what we have built in as lit­tle time as we have.

We have a strong ded­i­ca­tion to not just Python, but open source in gen­eral (and a fair num­ber of us will be at PyCon this month). As time pro­gresses, now that we’re exit­ing stealth mode we plan on pos­si­bly open sourc­ing stuff we feel would ben­e­fit the com­mu­nity. Some of us already push patches back where and when we can, but as I said — as time pro­gresses this involve­ment will only increase.

So not only am I proud to announce the prod­uct, be part of this team and to see what we’ve made, I’m also happy to thank so many peo­ple in the Python and OSS com­mu­nity which have helped us reach this point.

So go — check it out, let us know what you think.

The company I've worked for since July of last year - Nasuni Corporation (a startup in Massachusetts) has gone live! This is the culmination of a lot of hard, but exceedingly fun and exciting work over the past months. The Nasuni team is an excellent one - and one I am very, very proud ...