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Nasuni’s Anne Blanchard discusses Gartner’s Top Trends in Enterprise Data Storage 2023 report and the emergence of hybrid cloud storage platforms.

Nasuni Chief Innovation Officer Jim Liddle discusses how files play a pivotal role in organizing our digital world, heightening the importance of enterprise unstructured data management.

Nasuni Chief Product Officer Russ Kennedy discusses how to address the fear of cloud migration.

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CTO & Founder at Nasuni, Andres Rodriguez, describes why Nasuni’s hybrid cloud file platform is the superior file services solution for large organizations.

Nasuni’s Chief Product Officer Russ Kennedy discusses how cloud data intelligence can be utilized in new and creative ways.

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.

For the last several decades, data has been inextricably bound to hardware. The stewards of data within large organizations were forced to focus on procuring, managing and maintaining the infrastructure on which that data resided. The cloud-driven evolution of capabilities in data storage and protection has rendered much of that once-critical legacy technology obsolete. Organizations can leverage more advanced data services through the cloud and do so without investing in hardware. You can stop managing infrastructure and start managing data.

The data storage industry has evolved significantly in the last three decades, but what has happened in the last 10 years has been another order of change entirely. The maturation of the cloud and the related ecosystem of solutions are transforming data storage from a basic necessity into a strategic technology that can drive business innovation and cost reduction, reduce risk, facilitate hybrid office models, accelerate global workflows and uncover hidden insights.

Open ecosystems and collaborative partnerships matter, particularly with cloud infrastructure solutions. Google Cloud maintains a robust partner ecosystem that encourages companies like file-data-services provider Nasuni to create innovative solutions that run on its infrastructure. Partners can leverage what Google Cloud has built and advanced over many years to offer new, exciting capabilities for its customers. Nasuni's new Ransomware Protection add-on service to its Nasuni for Google Cloud offering is an example.

The growth of unstructured data is accelerating. More people in more places are creating more files, and for organizations that continue to rely on traditional storage and data protection solutions, this is quickly becoming a very serious problem. At Nasuni we hear about unstructured data growth all the time from new and incoming customers, partners, first-time prospects, and IT leaders who switch to new companies and bring Nasuni with them. Gartner has taken the lead in tracking these trends and advising their clients on how to evaluate infrastructure and operations platforms in preparation for the years ahead.

When people in the technology industry talk about big data, they are typically referring to structured data. If you swipe or tap your credit card at a specific location, the information associated with that transaction will be logged and stored in structured form in a traditional or cloud warehouse. The technology solutions developed to store, analyze, and transform this structured data into business insights and advantages have been tremendously successful over the past decade. The industry has a handle on structured data.