The End of File Data Guesswork: DryvIQ Meets Nasuni

Every organization I speak with has the same challenge in different clothing: Unstructured data isn’t just growing, it’s outrunning governance.

It’s sprawling across file shares, cloud platforms, core storage, and business apps, multiplying faster than teams can track it — let alone control it. Meanwhile, the pressure is mounting. Ransomware resilience is a boardroom mandate. Compliance expectations keep tightening. And AI has raised the bar from “good enough” data hygiene to provable data readiness.

The problem isn’t that enterprises lack data. It’s that they lack visibility, ownership, and control over the data they already have.

That’s why I’m excited to share an important partnership milestone: DryvIQ has launched a new connector for the Nasuni File Data Platform, designed to help customers get deeper insight into their Nasuni content and bring consistent governance and lifecycle controls across their broader unstructured data environment.

Why Clarity Matters More Than Ever

AI and modernization programs are accelerating decisions that used to take quarters. Teams are being asked to answer questions like:

• What data do we actually have, and where is it?
• Which content is redundant, obsolete, or trivial (ROT), and what should we retire?
• What contains sensitive information, regulated data, or business-critical IP?
• What should be retained, archived, or defensibly deleted?
• What is safe to use in AI workflows, and what isn’t?

Those questions are difficult to answer when you only see part of the picture. Even a world-class file data platform can’t solve the full governance puzzle on its own if organizations still operate with fragmented views and disconnected policies across repositories.

What customers have been telling us is simple: they want to modernize and move faster, but they need confidence that the decisions they’re making are defensible.

What’s New: The DryvIQ Connector for Nasuni

With the new connector, customers can:

• Migrate content into Nasuni at enterprise speed and scale.
• Gain a complete picture of their Nasuni content alongside other unstructured data sources, including collaboration platforms, foundational storage, and line-of-business applications.

In other words, this isn’t just “another integration.” It’s a practical way to combine Nasuni’s strengths in cloud-based file services with DryvIQ’s strengths in content intelligence and lifecycle management, so customers can see what they have and then do something useful with that insight.

From Visibility to Action: What Customers Can Do with the Integration

Visibility is where good governance starts, but it’s not where it ends.

One of the most compelling aspects of this expanded partnership is that DryvIQ is built to translate insight into clear, defensible actions, so customers can manage Nasuni file data alongside other enterprise content through a unified view of their environment.

Here are a few ways that shows up in real-world programs:

1) Apply consistent governance and compliance across repositories

Most organizations have governance policies, but they’re often implemented inconsistently because content is scattered. With a unified view, teams can more easily apply consistent controls across repositories, reducing policy drift and helping compliance teams operate with less friction.

2) Accelerate modernization without disrupting end users

Modernization efforts fail when they disrupt production workloads or day-to-day collaboration. DryvIQ is designed for large-scale, global data operations while minimizing disruption to workloads and the end-user experience. That matters because migrations shouldn’t become productivity penalties.

3) Make smarter lifecycle decisions based on evidence

When you can classify and analyze content, you can make lifecycle decisions based on what’s actually in the environment (not assumptions). That enables more confident retention, archival, and defensible deletion strategies — especially when organizations are trying to reduce cost and risk at the same time.

4) Build a stronger foundation for AI readiness

AI initiatives often stall not because models aren’t available, but because data readiness isn’t. Organizations need to understand sensitivity, relevance, ownership, and quality before they can responsibly operationalize AI.

This connector supports that direction by helping customers gain deeper insight and context around file data ,so AI programs can move forward with fewer surprises and more confidence.

Why This Works

The Nasuni File Data Platform, powered by UniFS®, provides cloud-based file storage, global access, ransomware protection, and operational resilience — capabilities that are essential for modern enterprise file services.

Where DryvIQ complements Nasuni is in the layer above: content intelligence, classification, migration orchestration, policy automation, and lifecycle governance… Not only for Nasuni, but across 40+ enterprise repositories.

Together, this creates a powerful combination:

• Nasuni helps customers modernize file services and operate globally with resilience.
• DryvIQ helps customers understand, govern, and manage content lifecycle decisions across their broader unstructured data estate (including what’s in Nasuni).

Who Should Pay Attention to This Release

If you’re leading any of the following initiatives, this integration is especially relevant:

• Enterprise file share modernization (especially multi-site global environments)
• Data governance standardization across business units and regions
• Compliance readiness (retention, privacy, audit response, defensible disposition)
• M&A and divestiture content consolidation
• AI readiness programs that require better data classification and policy controls
• Cost optimization efforts focused on reducing ROT and improving lifecycle hygiene

Availability and Next Steps

The Nasuni connector is available immediately within the DryvIQ platform.

If you’re already a Nasuni customer exploring governance modernization, or if you’re evaluating how to bring more intelligence and control to your unstructured data environment, I’d encourage you to:

1. Identify a high-impact use case (migration, compliance, AI readiness, or lifecycle cleanup)

2. Define what “clarity” means for your stakeholders (risk, cost, speed, defensibility)

3. Engage with DryvIQ and Nasuni to see how the connector can support your program end-to-end

This release reflects what we continue to hear from customers: they don’t just need storage and access, they need understanding and action at scale. I’m excited about what this integration unlocks and what it means for enterprises trying to move faster while governing with confidence.