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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.

If the energy industry teaches IT professionals one thing, it’s the importance of respecting the sanctity of data. Whether you devote internal resources to acquire seismic data or purchase it from another organization, this data is gold. Highly paid geoscientists and engineers need to be able to analyze it quickly and securely, wherever they might be in the world. If this data is lost, corrupted, or incomplete, these professionals can’t do their jobs, and the company loses money.

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.

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.

I’m proud to add this ISO certification to Nasuni’s growing list of recognition, as it further cements our reputation as a company that holds itself and its employees to the highest possible standards in all areas of our business. 

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.

As company momentum continues to grow out of our record-setting third quarter, I’m proud to announce that our Customer Success organization is keeping pace, winning the prestigious NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for 2021.

Hybrid Cloud Storage is progressing up the innovation curve in the latest Gartner Hype Cycle report for Storage and Data Protection, and Nasuni is listed as a featured vendor.

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