Overcoming Obstacles: How Nasuni’s Enterprise Data Platform Sets You Up for Success

Nasuni’s Lance Shaw shares how an enterprise data platform strategy can help businesses prepare for tomorrow, today.

October 10, 2024  |  Lance Shaw

This is a piece about the future, but I want to start in the present. A lot of businesses still have their heads in the clouds (please forgive the shameless pun) when it comes to unstructured data. So, before we dive into the lofty projections, let’s talk about today: unstructured data already makes up 80% of all enterprise data. Additionally, the total market for unstructured data solutions is valued at $51 billion. That’s right now.

And, yes, growth is predicted. Research from Frost and Sullivan’s Global Data Center Investment Trends and Growth Opportunities report shows that data is growing 40% year over year. Additionally, Gartner Research tells us that by 2026, large enterprises will have tripled their total unstructured data capacity. The year after, 70% of infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders will be using hybrid cloud storage.

Future-proofing means serving the reality of today while also pre-empting what the business will need to succeed tomorrow. But what does future-proofing look like in reality, and how can Nasuni help you achieve it?

What is future-proofing in IT?

To explore what future-proofing really means in our industry, we asked over a thousand IT infrastructure managers about the main business drivers of cloud infrastructure investments.

IT departments are constantly being asked to do more with less, so it’s no surprise that efficiency ranks #1. Next came resiliency. As ransomware becomes increasingly more sophisticated and phishing attacks more insidious, it’s not a case of “if,” but of “when” a breach will happen. Customer experience also ranks highly, with IT managers under immense pressure to keep relevant data available to end users 100% of the time. A final top driver (no surprise here!) was AI readiness, with I&O leaders racing to securely and cost-effectively benefit from advances in artificial intelligence.

The priorities are clear. So, what is stopping us from achieving them?

What are the obstacles to future-proofing?

The greatest adversary of future-proofing is the data silo. Data silos can be caused by legacy hardware-centric technology like Network Attached Storage (NAS), FTP hosting, and Windows filers. They also occur when data is split between multiple companies that have merged, or stored in different locations across large geographies. This approach to data management may have worked 30 years ago, but it’s heaving under the weight of today’s data workloads and it simply is not fit for purpose in the future.

Silos make it hard for companies to scale. They create barriers to the “anywhere access” that distributed workforces expect. It’s also difficult to protect data that’s trapped in siloes, often requiring expensive backup and disaster recovery solutions. Finally, silos cause frustration for users trying to analyze and derive valuable insights from data across multiple repositories, which in turn drives up the costs of taking advantage of AI services.

How Nasuni clears the path to your future

It’s clear that siloed legacy storage solutions won’t cut it anymore. To become fully future-proof, you need a single, flexible, scalable, and secure platform. The Nasuni File Data Platform is that solution. Let’s break down exactly how it creates a clear path for your future success:

By bringing you all the benefits of a hybrid cloud

Harnessing a hybrid cloud solution requires tackling the data sprawl caused by siloed storage and backup systems. Consolidating vendors improves efficiency, giving you the flexibility of object storage combined with visibility, control, and high performance at the network edge.

By giving you infinite scalability

Cloud object storage is highly scalable. As the volume of unstructured data balloons in the coming years, Nasuni’s enterprise data platform keeps you agile and lets you respond dynamically to changing business needs.

By offering comprehensive security, as standard

Nasuni collates immutable snapshots of your data, helping to detect and neutralize attacks when they happen. This technology ensures business continuity, minimizes RTO, and eliminates downtime from cyber attacks, hardware failures, and natural disasters.

By optimizing your data management

Using a single data platform optimizes your data management and improves the user experience workflow-wide. It makes collaboration easy, by allowing remote teams to work together as if they were in the same room, which may boost business productivity by up to 10x.

By driving maximum value from your data

Future-proofing also means extracting insights from your data to drive better analytics. This can look like providing forensic breakdowns of support desk issues, building chargeback reporting systems for cost recovery, or curating workloads ready to integrate with AI systems.

Transform your data from a cost into an asset

Our enterprise data platform is a proven solution for consolidating, protecting, and optimizing your unstructured data, ensuring a smooth journey to being a future-proofed organization. Talk to us today about how we can transform your data from a cost to be managed into an asset to be leveraged.

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