D+M Group Using Nasuni

Nasuni Corp. announced that D+M Group, a trade name of D&M Holdings Inc., is using Nasuni to store 45TB of file data and give employees at multiple offices in the US, Europe and Japan fast access to the corporate file share.

In addition, Nasuni eliminated the need to backup file data, as data protection and DR are built into the Nasuni architecture. In fact, despite several ransomware attacks which encrypted files, thanks to Nasuni, D+M Group did not have to pay ransom because it was able to recover from a snapshot that was no more than 15 minutes old.

Nasuni provides secure enterprise storage for files of all kinds and combines the value and reach of the cloud with the power of local access to deliver security and performance. The result is a single cloud-based file system that delivers scalability, built-in data protection and fast, secure file access to users everywhere – even on mobile devices. All data, both in transport and at rest, is encrypted using keys that only D+M controls – neither Nasuni nor its cloud partners ever have access to D+M’s data. Backup is eliminated, as is the costly hardware upgrade cycle associated with traditional storage solutions – a cycle that is no longer sustainable as file data volumes continue to increase.

With Nasuni, enterprises gain a file solution with an excellent user experience. Nasuni has never suffered a corruption event and currently has more than 12PB of storage under management.

D+M Group delivers quality sound solutions through many different brands, including Boston Acoustics, Denon, HEOS and Marantz. Headquartered in Japan, the company has more than 1,000 employees in 30 countries.  It has expanded through acquisition, which created serious storage challenges. At one time, the company had 62 offices with 62 different storage systems. Over time, the IT organization consolidated to three major data centers serving 30 different offices, but while this approach, boosted by WAN acceleration, improved performance, it did not scale. The growth of unstructured data drove up storage and backup costs, ad IT struggled to provide adequate data protection and access. Engineers in some locations relied on USB drives and other insecure methods to give themselves remote and mobile access to files.

With Nasuni, D+M Group has been able to reduce and control the cost of unstructured data growth, and employees have fast access to files from every location and device. No one needs to rely on USB drives anymore for backup and file sharing. Security is stronger. All files are encrypted before moving to the cloud using keys controlled only by D+M Group, and the utility of Nasuni’s automatic data protection has proved itself many times over. Thanks to Nasuni, D+M Group has thwarted the ransomware attacks that nearly all enterprises are encountering these days.

Nasuni enables users to restore deleted files themselves, and also to share files with external partners on their own through a simple interface, while providing IT with the controls and limits it needs to maintain security.  D+M Group can do all this without needing to add guest user IDs and can also set access expiration times. And these limits are simple to construct and standardize for the firm as a whole or by individual file share.

“It just works,” said Scott Strickland, global CIO, D+M Group. “IT can remotely manage storage and control access at any location through the Nasuni Management Console, and I never have to get involved in storage at all. It’s a truly global solution with best-in-class DR that leverages infrastructure I can trust. And to top it all off, it costs less than our previous solution!“

“The transition to Nasuni has been painless,” said Tony Scrimenti, director of global infrastructure and vendor management, D+M Group: “Most of the team did not even know they had been moved to a new system. People get a little nervous when we tell them it’s cloud. But then we tell them they’ve been on it for the last six months and they say, ‘Oh, we have?‘”

“Nasuni has reduced our workloads and storage costs while providing a global file replication/transport system,” Scrimenti added. “This enables global collaboration with the performance of a local file system while enabling BC and DR across our data centers, which is key for our mission critical data and app server backups.“

“There’s no reason for the enterprise to rely on unscalable file storage solutions that can’t provide fast global access,” said Andres Rodriguez, CEO, Nasuni. “Nasuni delivers unlimited capacity, access from anywhere and built-in data protection, all in a unified, easy-to-manage solution that costs a fraction of what traditional file storage systems cost. Nasuni is delivering the future of file storage to our customers today.“