Nasuni’s Year in Review: Our Top 10 Stories of 2024

As we race forward into the new year, we’re looking back at Nasuni’s Year in Review through our most read blogs of 2024. Internally, our content team analyzes these results to get a better sense of which topics and trends grab our readers. For the rest of you, this list is an easy way to get up to speed on some of the big ideas in the industry, including the appeal of hybrid cloud storage, AI data strategies, and cybersecurity in the ransomware age, plus a handful of our best customer and industry stories.

Here are Nasuni’s top 10 stories of 2024.

1. Future-proof Your Business with Hybrid Cloud Storage

Our top post of the year looks at why a centralized platform approach to file data management is winning out over traditional file storage solutions, citing a new paper from the research team at Frost & Sullivan. The post and the attached paper are packed with useful insights. Take a look.

2. How a Global Manufacturer Modernized with Nasuni

Tony Rubenacker, IT Director at Dow, a global leader in materials science manufacturing, shares his firsthand account of modernizing his company’s global IT infrastructure. In addition to detailing his evaluation, the benefits, and his vision for the future, Rubenacker discusses what it was like to work with Nasuni:

“The process was smooth and highly effective, allowing us to transition from our legacy NetApp file systems to the advanced Nasuni appliances without causing any disruptions to our user base.”

3. Modernizing Global Data Infrastructure Industry Report

Our first industry research report on the data storage market proved to be an attractive asset, as our post on the dramatic shift toward hybrid cloud has been very popular. This post and the attached report pull back the curtain on digital transformation in the modern era, revealing what other enterprise leaders are prioritizing and why.

4. Nasuni in Retail: The Complete 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

We were thrilled to see that our readers found this collection of gift ideas from our customers useful. A slight confession, though: This piece was also a not-so-subtle way of showing off our success with customers across the retail industry, including some of the biggest brands in the world. And these are just the ones we’re allowed to mention.

5. How to Prepare Your Data for GenAI

Sure, plenty of questions remain around enterprise deployment of AI, but one point is very, very clear. You can’t do AI without a  data strategy. This quick, insightful post reviews three basic steps to get your data ready for AI. (It’s not too late, or too early, to get started.) Another one of our popular posts cites highlights from a research report on AI data strategy in the hybrid cloud era. You might want to check out that one, too.

6. Data Protection in the Cloud Era with Nasuni

One of our new blog contributors, Nasuni’s Ryan Miller, goes deep into the 3-2-1-1 data protection paradigm and explains why we need to think about data protection differently in the era of cloud and ransomware.

7. Nasuni Joins the Vista Equity Partners Family

In July we shared the exciting news that we’d signed a strategic growth investment agreement with Vista Equity Partners. Our CEO Paul Flanagan details what the deal means for our business and our customers and why it positions us to shape and define the future of hybrid cloud.

8. Nasuni Navigators: Amplifying the Voice of the Customer

This year we were also very excited to introduce our new voice-of-the-customer program, Nasuni Navigators. Participants will gain insights into our product roadmap, interact with Nasuni product leadership, and access exclusive content and events. Read our customer marketing manager’s story to learn more.

9. Overcoming Your Cloud Migration Fears

The idea of migrating from legacy storage infrastructure to the cloud can be daunting. In our #2 story above, Dow’s IT Director talks about how he was able to carry out this shift at a global scale without disrupting his users. This post looks at why it’s so important to overcome your fears and migrate your data today.

10. A New Partner Program for the Era of Hybrid Cloud

Finally, Matthew Grantham discusses our revamped partner program, which is designed to capitalize on the growth and momentum in the hybrid cloud market. Take a look at the post to learn more about some of the changes, and why we see it as another key step in our evolution as a world-class organization.

As with last year, this top 10 list doesn’t include all our best stories from the year, but we will be using it to shape and steer our editorial calendar in the months ahead. If you have any feedback or would like more of a certain type of story, please let us know. And thank you, as always, for reading!