Simple, Scalable and Smart Cloud-Based File Management

Centrally manage, scale and adapt to changing file-storage needs from on-premises to multiple clouds. Files Storage gives you unprecedented insights into your data.

Why Do Customers Choose Files Storage?

The Files Storage cloud file server for business reduces data fragmentation and storage sprawl by consolidating silos onto a single platform that easily scales to meet storage needs.

Deploy in minutes

Update non-disruptively with a single click, and manage all of your shared and dedicated storage from a single pane of glass.

Pay-as-you-grow

Files Storage gives you the flexibility to scale-up or scale-out on the hardware of your choice and enjoy cloud-like consumption.

Automate operations

Know your data, who’s using it, and how they’re using it through automated management and control.

How Files Storage Works

Files Storage provides a scale-out distributed file storage solution supporting SMB and NFS on top of Nutanix AOS.  Virtual file server controllers are deployed across nodes within an existing cluster, or on a dedicated file storage cluster. Nodes are designed to be self-contained and share nothing, eliminating single points of failure.  Files Storage architecture scales out easily by adding virtual resources and can be deployed across a variety of environments including datacenters, remote and branch offices, edge locations, and clouds.

Deep Analytics for Data Security

Audit file access, usage and modifications

Build audit trails to see who is creating, accessing, moving, deleting, and modifying files and permissions. Filter data based on an event or time range for more insights.

Detect ransomware and other security threats

Safeguard files and data by exposing the earliest signs of malicious user behaviors. Create alert policies that automatically trigger when anomalies and potential cyberthreat behaviors occur.

Policy-driven remediation

Define policies that trigger when file system anomalies and malicious activities occur. See alert details and information about users who cause anomalies and which folders are impacted.

Manage Any Workload Effectively

Visibility for capacity utilization

Gain clarity into how capacity is used over time and what types of files are being added to predefined capacity allocations.

Identify growth patterns and trends

Critical analytics provide exceptional visibility into types of files, file size distribution, growth patterns and trends.

Administer quota enforcement

The scope of detailed information at your disposal enables you to accurately measure and enforce per-user file storage quotas.

Get the Features You Need

Scale on demand

With one click, add compute and memory to file server VMs and add more file server VMs.

Enterprise-ready storage

Get intelligent tiering, erasure coding and compression while controlling per-user storage quotas.

Other Capabilities

Files archives Lower the cost of storing data and active/passive archives to meet business and compliance mandates. Medical imaging Unify and secure all medical imaging and clinical data into a single scalable file storage solution. Video surveillance Store security camera, body camera, and mobile video with rapid retrieval of large amounts of data. Windows & Linux shares Simplify and standardize user data shares and boost productivity, availability and data visibility. Application data Deliver the right balance of capacity and performance to your business-critical file applications.