Nasuni Snags $20M More for “Storage as a Service”
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Where else but the Boston area would you find a startup looking to disrupt traditional enterprise data-storage companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, NetApp, and, yes, EMC? Natick, MA-based Nasuni has raised a $20 million Series C financing round led by an undisclosed new investor (not a venture firm). Nasuni is part of a wave of companies that are trying to turn traditional storage infrastructure into a utility service. The company’s technology takes care of cloud storage, data management, and online backup, and it’s geared towards distributed enterprises with offices in different locations. It’s a tremendous amount of work.” —On lessons learned from his previous companies: From Archivas, he says, the lesson was to “always sell a full system, a full solution,” and to “sell to mid-size enterprise first, they are much better early adopters.” At the New York Times, where he ran digital strategy as CTO, he was on the other side of the table, buying storage.
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