Blog

SVP of Business & Corporate Development Michael Sotnick shares insights about his new role and the industry’s enterprise data management problem.

Nasuni Customer John Shaffer shares the top reasons that Greenhill relies on the Nasuni hybrid cloud storage platform and more in his guest blog post.

Chief Marketing Officer Asim Zaheer discusses why he joined Nasuni’s leadership team and the future of enterprise IT.

Since Q1 2021, Nasuni’s file data under management within the manufacturing industry has grown by 243%. We’ve seen 66% growth in the number of our manufacturing customers, and the last time I checked, we were storing, protecting, and facilitating collaboration of file data at more than 1,800 locations in 55 countries worldwide for the manufacturing industry. This growth is the outcome of an array of converging forces and trends, including a rapidly evolving industry, Nasuni platform enhancements, a larger market shift to cloud services, and the continued threat of ransomware.

As part of the launch of our new Buyer’s Guide to Storing Files in Azure, I connected with Tim Kresler, Product Manager at Microsoft Azure. While Azure is certainly an ideal destination for migrating file data off your end-of-life Windows file servers, NetApp, and Dell Isilon, there are multiple file services solutions in the Azure portfolio, and some of them sound the same. So I talked to Tim about Azure file services, what makes Nasuni with Azure Blob object storage unique, and how the partnership between Nasuni and Microsoft has grown over the years.

Today we announced that Nasuni has surpassed managing and protecting over 100 petabytes of primary file data workloads residing in Microsoft Azure. When I joined Nasuni to manage our Microsoft alliance three years ago, we were at roughly 19 PB in Azure. Today we have more than 500 joint customers with Microsoft, including a top 5 global manufacturer and one of the world's leading social networking platforms. Thanks to a compound annual growth rate of 74% in these past three years, we've blown past the 100 PB mark.

I’ve coached hundreds of companies through the process of assessing their options for storing files in Azure and one thing is absolutely clear. Selecting the right file data storage solution is confusing and time-consuming. Microsoft Azure is a great place to start, but you're presented with three different file storage options within Azure. All three sound similar.  All three count toward your Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment. And all three are available in the Azure Customer Portal. So how can an IT leader be sure you’re taking your best shot? I hope our new Buyer’s Guide is a good place to start.

This blog dives into the myriad of complexities with NetApp’s portfolio of “public cloud” solutions and contrasts how Nasuni’s born in the cloud platform delivers scale, savings, and simplicity.

This blog compares the file storage limitations of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Nasuni.

In the third blog in our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Nasuni series, we compare IT administration requirements.

Compare the costs of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Nasuni Cloud File Storage. NetApp is typically 2x the cost of Nasuni.

In this first blog of a four-part series, we compare the product components and architectures of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Nasuni cloud file storage.