Case Study: Hull & Associates achieves high-performance, scalable file collaboration and 60% cost savings with Nasuni

How File Storage Hardware Drove Hull & Associates to Nasuni’s Integrated Solution

Hull & Associates, a Dublin, Ohio–based environmental and civil engineering firm with seven locations and 175 users, struggled as its business grew: large 2 GB CAD and GIS files caused severe latency at remote offices, collaboration was hampered by fragmented file servers, backups were tape-based and often spilled into the next day, and rising hardware and licensing costs made scaling difficult.

Hull replaced its aging infrastructure with Nasuni’s cloud-native file services—piloting 500 GB then migrating 95% of corporate data—giving local caching, global file locking, continuous versioning and a single management console. The change eliminated tape backups, cut restore times from roughly two hours to minutes, delivered 15‑minute RTOs and minimal RPOs, sped acquisition onboarding to about a week, and reduced operational costs by roughly 60%.

Hull & Associates

Scott Strickland

Global CIO