My First 30 Days at Nasuni: Building on Momentum 

Nasuni CEO Sam King reflects on her first 30 days at the company and shares why she’s optimistic about the company’s future.

May 1, 2025  |  Sam King

It’s remarkable how quickly 30 days can pass when you’re immersed in something meaningful. My first month at Nasuni has been both exhilarating and affirming — confirming why I was drawn to this organization in the first place. So far, here’s what I know. 

Listening and Learning

My priority has been to listen actively to our employees, customers, and partners. These conversations have reinforced a critical insight: the rapid growth of unstructured data presents both significant risks and exciting opportunities. Organizations need more than storage solutions. They need a strategic partner who can help them secure, manage, and extract meaningful value from their data while leveraging AI to drive efficiencies. 

The Nasuni File Data Platform is already delivering tangible benefits, from significant cost reductions and robust ransomware protection, to enabling innovative AI use cases. Thus, our customers remain enthusiastic about what the future holds. 

The Path Forward 

What makes Nasuni special is our position at the powerful intersection of artificial intelligence, cloud transformation, and cybersecurity. These aren’t just trendy terms or buzzwords, but fundamental pillars of our mission — ensuring our customers’ unstructured data is not only highly secure and resilient, but also readily available to fuel innovation through AI. 

Our roadmap is compelling and builds on a platform already trusted by leading global organizations to modernize their legacy NAS infrastructure, unlock valuable intelligence from their data assets, and maintain robust protection against evolving cyber threats. While I can’t share too many details yet, Nasuni customers seeking secure, AI-ready infrastructure have much to anticipate in the latter part of this year. 

The Nasunista Community 

Perhaps most impressive is our people. The “Nasunista” community embodies a culture of innovation and empathy that I first recognized during my interviews and now have the privilege of experiencing daily. From our engineering teams pushing the boundaries of cloud-native file services to our product organization driving our vision forward, to our customer-facing teams guiding organizations through complexity with confidence, I’ve observed the same high level of energy and alignment across the company. 

Why This Matters Now 

The market timing couldn’t be better. We’re operating in a dynamic, high-growth space with significant momentum, a truly differentiated product offering, and the trust of some of the world’s most respected companies 

After just 30 days, one thing is abundantly clear: we’ve only begun to tap into our full potential. I invite you to join us at one of our upcoming events, including our new Unify series focused on AI, to experience this momentum firsthand. The future at Nasuni is exceptionally bright, and I’m thrilled to help shape what comes next. 

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