Comments on: Say Hello — Nasuni Launches Today!

By: bill donner

bill donner — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:42:02 +0000

The functionality, the management interface looks good. The Nasuni site has a pretty clean presentation of all the technical goodness. At the end of the day, though I think the weakness is what you don’t control… the cloud storage providers. Their cost structure is just not set up for large capacity use (which is normally the exact thing you are using a NAS for). 1 TB of storage will cost (depending on provider) $4,800-$10,000? If you have any kind of existing IT infrastructure, how do you sell them on this solution? And for small business with no real IT, the 5-year opex for this is orders of magnitude more expensive then local area NAS solutions. Amazon S3 came out about 4 years ago, their $/GB is essentially the same. Meanwhile, the $/GB for physical drives has just continued to drop. The cloud is great for lots of stuff. Mass storage may not (yet) be one of them.

By: jnoller

jnoller — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:32:23 +0000

We'll definitely see how things work out :)

The Filer offers snapshots (versioning) rapid restores, end to end encryption, etc. There's a vast world of difference between what Dropbox offers and what we offer - so I *personally* don't see us competing. Our product is more suitable/appeals to businesses and small enterprise shops that are used to NAS devices and shared filesystems, so it's really different from the more (pro)consumer space Dropbox is in.

By: Dalius

Dalius — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:59:36 +0000

Looks good and interesting. I can see more than one market segment that might be interested in what you did but I’m not sure if that’s going to be easy for you. E.g. dropbox looks simpler solution for average user and small companies while big companies have more demands than simple, accessible and secure.

Good luck, competition is always good thing :-)

By: paltman

paltman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:50:18 +0000

Awesome! Congrats!

I am anxious to put this to use for sure.

By: jnoller

jnoller — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:19:30 +0000

Awesome! And yeah — we didn’t know it meant “try me” when we picked it — but now it’s awfully fitting.

By: jnoller

jnoller — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:18:37 +0000

Ha! No approval needed. Just download and use!

By: jnoller

jnoller — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:18:08 +0000

Forward to the people responsible — thanks!

By: dougnapoleone

dougnapoleone — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:23 +0000

NOTE: Information on the VMWare requirement would be helpful up front ;-)

(I read the instillation guide before signing up so I knew about it already, and have fusion at home so no biggie, but others might get snagged)

By: dougnapoleone

dougnapoleone — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:12:26 +0000

oooohhhhh!!!!! Approve my beta now!!!!! ;-)

I want to connect this to my new synology netapp for offsite backup…

By: pauloyster

pauloyster — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:23:47 +0000

Looks very nice. I intend to try it soon.
Do you know that in Hebrew ‘Nasuni’ means ‘try me’?