2. Matthew Donehoo, Director of Information Systems, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, 5 years in IT

Favorite Product: Nasuni enterprise storage service

Nasuni offers enterprise-class, primary file storage services in a single, scalable solution that addresses multiple storage needs for global businesses. The solution uses on-premises Nasuni Filers back-ended by public cloud storage providers. The Nasuni service provides instant, synchronized access to data from any location. ESG Lab tested Nasuni's enterprise storage services, evaluating the service's ability to deliver multi-site access to files with complete security, instant scalability, guaranteed reliability, and enterprise-class performance while managing data services from a central console as reported by ESG lab.

"Nasuni helps us leverage the cloud in a way we hadn't thought of before really, a new way to solve an old problem," said Joe Cruz, IT Technical Director at The Wharton School, "They offer what we need and more: a comprehensive storage services solution that used to require separate local and remote backup, disaster recovery, and security products. Guaranteed. Not only that, we get access from multiple sites on the same platform, precise control over retention of data, and the RTO after a disaster is reduced to minutes! Storage services from Nasuni is what storage should have been all along," as stated in a Press release.