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I've been fortunate in my career to have worked with some incredible people at generational, category-defining companies. I've had some successes and I've encountered challenges. My career has charted a course that has put me at the stage where "I know a thing or two, because I've seen thing or two."  I most recently joined Nasuni as Chief Revenue Officer, and I wanted to share some perspective as to why I'm thrilled to join this team on their incredible journey.   

The last few years have been a challenging time for most everyone – companies and individuals alike. As a company, we always reinforce that our most important asset is our employees, and our second most important asset is our customers. Take care of the former and they will take care of the latter. You get this right, and you can build a successful company. And so while the world was changing daily we stayed focused on our employees and our customers, and we are very proud of the results we have delivered as a company across a number of significant spectrums.

Often when you work at a technology company for long enough, you become so close to what you’re doing that you lose sight of whether other people actually understand what you’re building and how it works. This is often referred to as the ‘center of the universe’ problem. As a new member of the leadership team, I see the platform through a different lens, and in this post I’d like to roll back the conversation to the technical basics, or what makes Nasuni different and why.

I’m excited to announce that Pete Agresta has joined Nasuni as our first ever Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) joining an already incredible management team. As we kick off 2023, I’m humbled to lead a go-to-market team that continues to achieve extraordinary business milestones — recently passing the $100m ARR financial milestone – to the highest customer satisfaction ratings in the market – to amazing internal employee satisfaction survey results.

The menace of ransomware is driving increased security spending as organizations try to harden their systems against potential attacks, but ransomware is a new kind of threat. You can’t simply deploy tools to defend against the malware. You have to design your infrastructure for recovery.

IT teams are deploying cloud storage solutions to consolidate data silos and provide the flexibility needed to adapt to a changing business climate. But what if it were possible to eliminate on-premises storage altogether? A solution that delivered this capability would provide substantial savings by eliminating the on-premises infrastructure required for legacy file servers, NAS, backup, and disaster recovery. Nasuni, which services over 13,000 locations to over 90 countries, is such a platform. Check out these customer reviews to learn how Nasuni stores and shares unstructured file data with simplicity, speed, and savings.

This past year was a good one to switch to Nasuni from legacy NAS and file servers and we welcomed many new customers upgrading to our cloud platform for a variety of reasons. Some realized that the traditional file server is the IT equivalent of a fax machine. Others needed to migrate off StorSimple into a future-proof solution. A number of organizations had deployed supposedly cloud-scale solutions only to discover far more limitations and headaches than they'd expected. As you’d expect, data security and ransomware were a huge driver of new business for us as well — the continued threat has made it a priority for large enterprises.

In the early days of cloud, the push to transform enterprise file infrastructure centered around storage. File data was growing rapidly and unpredictably, and the cloud offered a way to expand capacity on demand. While storage continues to be a major driver behind cloud transformations today, organizations are also looking for more. They don’t simply want cloud file data storage. They want cloud file data services. There are more boxes to check, including cyber resilience, intelligent data insights, and the ability to access data from anywhere.

We just wrapped up an exciting week at AWS re:Invent 2022 and I'm already looking forward to next year because I expect our relationship to continue to grow exponentially. But I'm also eager for 2023 simply because it's re:Invent — the conference that never disappoints! This year, we enjoyed great customer interactions, ran some truly insightful and exciting meetings with our partners at AWS, and hosted a few fantastic events.

We’re in the last stretch of the holiday season, and many of us here at Nasuni have been too focused on closing out the company's banner year to get all our shopping done. But we have a unique advantage. When we run out of ideas, especially for those hard-to-gift types in our lives, we scan our growing list of retail customers for inspiration. A quick look at these leading brands yields an idea for just about anyone, from the little kid to the grown-up geek.

Back in September, when a Wall Street Journal article announced the unexpected return of the cubicle, the story surprised a few people. For those of us who work in Human Resources, though, this was just the latest in a string of surprising and sometimes contradictory data points. One thing we do know: The workplace is changing. According to Gartner, two-thirds of organizations are opting for a hybrid work model.

Last month we hosted CloudBound22, our third annual virtual conference, and the turnout, expert participation, and content quality exceeded our expectations. This year we focused on building, maintaining, and extracting more value out of your file data cloud. Cloud insiders, industry analysts, noted journalists, and IT leaders and executives from some of our most innovative customers covered everything from cyber resilience and data intelligence to anywhere access and cloud portability.