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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.  

We have more exciting news to report on the innovation front.  The success of recent upgrades to the platform – including Global File Accelerator, our 9.5 release, and the launch of Nasuni Labs – cemented our leadership team’s belief that we need to continue doing everything we can to keep making the world’s best file services platform even better.  To that end, Nasuni is launching an Innovation Centre in Cork, Ireland that will be bolstered by the hiring of several new engineering teams. 

With the global gaming market expected to grow to $257B by 2025, studios are locked in an increasingly competitive race. They need to deliver more innovative, complex, detail-rich experiences to gamers, whether that means launching new titles or pushing out new releases of existing franchises.

I am thrilled to share that Nasuni has raised a $60M financing round to enable accelerated product development, innovation, and market expansion. The round of financing was led by new investor, Sixth Street Partners, who invested the entire $60M, and represents a significant increase in value for Nasuni, just 18 months after our last outside financing round closed.

Large companies often deploy Nasuni because they want to do away with the expense, hassle, and management complexity of maintaining dozens or even hundreds of file storage silos at different locations around the world. We began solving that original silo problem years ago. Unfortunately, a new type of silo has arrived on the IT scene.

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.