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May 30, 2023 Cloud-Native Technology As a Service

What does it mean to deliver a technology as a service? The "as a Service" moniker has become an irresistible marketing tag. What we used to call Software as a Service (SaaS) has mushroomed into Web Services, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Cloud Services or just Cloud. The challenge is how to distinguish real “as a Service” technology from cloud-wash or lipstick-on-legacy imitations. Here are 6 things to look for in technology that has been architected to be delivered as a Service.


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July 26, 2022 The Mendacious Magic of Cloud Tiering

In the words of the great Arthur C. Clarke, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” This is a brilliant maxim, but it doesn’t mean that a solution which appears to be magical must be backed by sufficiently advanced technology. Instead, the inverse is often true, and companies develop simple, appealing, even magical taglines to mask the underlying flaws and complexity of their technology.


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November 11, 2021 Failed Backups, Missing Emails & A New Kind of File System

I was talking with the CIO of one of our longstanding clients recently when he mentioned that one of his favorite things about our platform is that he no longer worries about backup. This came as no surprise. Backup is broken and it has been for decades.


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August 03, 2021 The War On Data: Three Defense Mechanisms Your Business Needs To Adopt

This blog was originally posted to the Forbes Technology Council. We have entered an unusual new age of security. The […]


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July 06, 2021 Backup’s 3-2-1 Rule is Outdated

A myopic focus of the backup vendors on durability at the expense of recoverability has left enterprise customers reeling from […]


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May 26, 2021 Backup is Broken

File backup is broken and no one is talking about it. The most recent uptick in ransomware attacks has exposed […]


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April 06, 2021 Listening in the Field

Nasuni CTO shares his recent field notes which generated or validated several ideas about cloud storage within the modern enterprise.


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January 26, 2021 APIs and the Future of Cloud

Nasuni's CTO shares his thoughts on two enterprise infrastructure trends: API-dominated cloud services models and specialized cloud providers.


December 01, 2020 The Future of IT in a SaaSified World

Andres Rodriguez, Nasuni CTO and founder, shares his thoughts on the role of IT in this new post-pandemic world.


October 08, 2020 Catching Up with Our CTO: The Evolution of Ransomware and the Perils of Centralized Backup

Nasuni built our file system so that it wouldn’t need centralized backup and would instead self-protect against threats like ransomware.


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July 29, 2020 Catching Up with Our CTO: SharePoint Sites vs. File Shares

There are profound technical differences between SharePoint and File Shares and each has its own strengths. Nasuni's CTO takes a deep dive into both.


July 23, 2020 Catching Up with Our CTO: Financial Services Reconsider the Risk of Public Cloud

The combination of reduced risk and better value will drive more financial services firms to the cloud in the next year. Here's what they need.


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