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As you may have read in the news, today Nasuni announced an agreement to acquire Storage Made Easy (SME)! It's an exciting time here at Nasuni as this is our second acquisition in 60 days! On behalf of the Nasuni team, I wanted to share with you why we are excited to integrate SME technology to the Nasuni File Data Platform, and what it will mean for our customers and partners.

This has been an exciting year for Nasuni on several fronts. We’ve signed on some of the largest companies in the world as new customers. Our existing customers are expanding their use of the platform. The investment community has given us another huge vote of confidence, our rapid ransomware recovery capabilities are pulling in unprecedented business, and our engineering team continues adding new features to the platform. As the VP of Strategic Alliances, though, I’m particularly excited about how our partnerships with some of the top technology providers in the world continue to get stronger.

The product team at Nasuni is constantly working to make the platform simpler, faster, and more powerful, but our new 9.7 release reflects one of the company’s larger guiding principles: at Nasuni, we truly listen intently to our customers. On the product team, we want to understand what’s important to them and what they would like to see from the platform.

Information security focuses its efforts around three pillars: prevention, detection and recovery. With ransomware, the first two receive far more attention than the third. This misguided focus results from a lack of understanding about how ransomware really works. This article will explain how ransomware operates at the file system level, how this impacts ransomware recovery and why paying the ransom is not a viable option.

The UniFS cloud-native file system, the Nasuni Analytics Connector, Global File Acceleration and the many other tools that power our file services platform have all been conceived and built in-house. But, as we continue to grow our base of multi-PB customers, and more of these large global companies adopt multi-cloud strategies, Nasuni made the unusual but exciting decision to accelerate our capabilities through an acquisition. The product team is extremely excited to onboard the technology of DBM Systems and expertise of Dr. Joseph Slember to ramp up our cloud-to-cloud migrations.

A year has passed since we announced our strategic partnership with Google Cloud and I’m thrilled to report that the first 12 months have been a tremendous success. The goal of the partnership was to provide more organizations with simple, reliable, low-cost enterprise file storage, and we truly hit the ground running. We recently achieved Premier Partner Status within the first twelve months and our deal flow has exceeded our expectations.  

Moving your file data to the cloud isn’t just about leveraging scale anymore. That remains a major part of the story, of course, but AWS is also ushering in a new era of cloud services.

At Nasuni, we’re not all sports geeks, but there’s always something to identify with at these events when you work at a company like ours. Take the Super Bowl. I’m not sure all of our employees followed every down, but I know they took pride in seeing one of our clients, Holologic, run a prime time Super Bowl ad. At Nasuni, when we watch these events, we don’t just follow the sports. We look at all the ways Nasuni customers are involved. This year’s March Madness is another great example.

We are excited to announce that Nasuni was selected as a product of the year by Storage magazine, earning a silver award in the cloud storage category. As TechTarget’s Tim McCarthy notes in his news article on the subject, the pandemic has had a massive effect on the cloud storage market, prompting companies to search for products that supported remote work and expanded data access.

This past year was another challenging year but also many positive signs for the world. It was an exciting twelve months for Nasuni as companies accelerated their journey to the cloud. We capitalized on being able to help our customers against the ongoing threat of Ransomware and the accelerating interest in cloud initiatives and digital transformation to deliver phenomenal results in 2021.

Every large organization with an eye to the future is thinking about migrating their file infrastructure to the cloud, if they haven't done it already. The benefits are undeniable. Instead of saddling your company with more hardware, you can deliver the scale, savings, and simplicity of flexible cloud file services in a single package. The choice is pretty simple.

Growth of unstructured file data across industries has been one of the primary engines driving our success over the past ten-plus years. Every industry vertical is dealing with file growth, but it’s no surprise that healthcare is seeing more challenges than most.