Meeting the Needs of the Modern Manufacturer

Nasuni’s Ben Clark discusses the company’s latest innovations and growth in the global manufacturing sector.

October 14, 2024  |  Ben Clark

In today’s rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape, companies are facing growing challenges in managing, scaling, and securing their data. Fortunately, Nasuni offers the ideal hybrid cloud solution to address these needs.

With deep expertise and a proven track record, we’ve become the go-to partner for manufacturers looking to streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance data protection. As manufacturing organizations increasingly turn to the cloud for scalable, efficient, and resilient data management, Nasuni’s platform stands out as a critical enabler of modern manufacturing excellence. This is further backed up by the momentum we have seen in the manufacturing sector in recent years. Why? There are a few reasons.

Cost-effective consolidation & scale

Helping organizations switch from capacity-constrained hardware to cost-effective, pay-as-your-grow storage in the cloud has been one of Nasuni’s core value propositions from the start. That hasn’t changed. But the results are especially powerful in manufacturing. The global watch manufacturer Movado, for example, is spending 50% less on primary storage after switching to Nasuni and AWS.

We’re also seeing an uptick in interest due to novel data sources, such as CCTV footage – a file data growth vector that can quickly force companies to hit hardware capacity constraints. This is one of the main use cases for one of the global brand name manufacturing customers of ours. We can’t name them here, but we’re helping them store surveillance footage more efficiently in the cloud, among other things.

96%-99% reduction in RPOs & RTOs

One of our Nasuni manufacturing customers reduced their RTO times by 22 hours. Movado dropped RPOs from 24 hours to one hour (a 96% reduction) and slashed RTOs from days to minutes. This is huge from a business continuity standpoint. A ransomware attack that encrypts a company’s manufacturing data can take key sites offline for days, leading to massive losses for the company. The faster a manufacturing firm can recover, the less money they lose due to downtime.

This is the kind of use case Nasuni was built to address and it’s one of the main drivers of our success in the industry. Our rapid ransomware recovery and early detection capabilities are a game changer for our manufacturing clients.

10X faster global file access

Speed is nice, too. Prior to Nasuni, engineers at specialty manufacturer AIXTRON had to wait hours to open 3D models stored in another region or country. Now that delay is down to two-and-a-half minutes worldwide. “If you compare loading time with Nasuni technology and without Nasuni technology,” explains AIXTRON CIO Olaf Rupprecht, “this is a performance increase of a factor of 5 to 10.”

33%-90% reduction in storage and infrastructure footprint

Western Digital eliminated 100+ storage devices from 7 vendors by switching to Nasuni. Swiss manufacturer Jakob Muller reduced its storage infrastructure footprint by 33%. Across our larger customer base, we regularly see 90% reductions in storage and data protection hardware.

150 sites managed through one pane of glass

Finally, all this consolidation through Nasuni leads to simplicity, which is highly valued in complex global manufacturing operations. One of our other Nasuni customers now manages 150 global offices and manufacturing sites through one pane of glass — the Nasuni Management Console.

Infrastructure that’s ready for Modern Manufacturing

The acceleration in our manufacturing business is no accident. Our hybrid cloud platform is an ideal fit for the industry. We provide a significant competitive edge for manufacturers that make the leap to hybrid cloud with Nasuni. We know we have a technology that’s perfectly matched to the needs of the modern global manufacturer, whether they’re prioritizing cost-effective scale, ransomware protection and recovery, accelerated global workflows, or a mix of all three, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of the world’s biggest manufacturers start exploring these advantages for themselves.

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