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Nasuni President David Grant discusses how Nasuni is currently enabling the architecture, engineering, and construction industry to speed up digital transformation by modernizing organizations’ file storage and protection infrastructure.

Nasuni’s Chief Product Officer Russ Kennedy discusses how cloud data intelligence can be utilized in new and creative ways.

Nasuni’s VP Access Anywhere Jim Liddle discusses how Nasuni is built to manage cloud file data at scale.

What does it mean to deliver a technology as a service? The "as a Service" moniker has become an irresistible marketing tag. What we used to call Software as a Service (SaaS) has mushroomed into Web Services, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Cloud Services or just Cloud. The challenge is how to distinguish real “as a Service” technology from cloud-wash or lipstick-on-legacy imitations. Here are 6 things to look for in technology that has been architected to be delivered as a Service.

Our commitment to Nasuni customers goes beyond simple support. According to the Customer Relationship Management Institute (CRMI), the performance of our customer support team has been world-class. CRMI audits and awards the NorthFace ScoreBoard Service Award, which is awarded to companies that deliver excellence in customer service. I'm very pleased to share the news that Nasuni has received this recognition for the third year in a row. The award is based on direct feedback and customer service ratings from actual customers.

For the last several decades, data has been inextricably bound to hardware. The stewards of data within large organizations were forced to focus on procuring, managing and maintaining the infrastructure on which that data resided. The cloud-driven evolution of capabilities in data storage and protection has rendered much of that once-critical legacy technology obsolete. Organizations can leverage more advanced data services through the cloud and do so without investing in hardware. You can stop managing infrastructure and start managing data.

The data storage industry has evolved significantly in the last three decades, but what has happened in the last 10 years has been another order of change entirely. The maturation of the cloud and the related ecosystem of solutions are transforming data storage from a basic necessity into a strategic technology that can drive business innovation and cost reduction, reduce risk, facilitate hybrid office models, accelerate global workflows and uncover hidden insights.

Recently, Nasuni hosted its first in-person revenue kick-off (RKO) in two years. This momentous gathering was not only a blast, but also set a precedent for Nasuni events to come. Because it was such a success, we decided to share our experiences to help guide you through the ins and outs of preparing, executing, and enjoying an outstanding RKO – whether you’re planning for a small team or the entire company.

As security threats continue evolving and malicious actors work tirelessly to find new ways to inflict harm, the Information Security team at Nasuni is working even harder to protect our customers, company, and people. We're growing our team of passionate, dedicated engineers and staffers, developing new tools and monitoring systems, and a great deal more. Yet a strong security strategy should not be based solely on trust, so we have once again subjected our systems and approaches to third-party validation for an unbiased assessment.

Open ecosystems and collaborative partnerships matter, particularly with cloud infrastructure solutions. Google Cloud maintains a robust partner ecosystem that encourages companies like file-data-services provider Nasuni to create innovative solutions that run on its infrastructure. Partners can leverage what Google Cloud has built and advanced over many years to offer new, exciting capabilities for its customers. Nasuni's new Ransomware Protection add-on service to its Nasuni for Google Cloud offering is an example.

The growth of unstructured data is accelerating. More people in more places are creating more files, and for organizations that continue to rely on traditional storage and data protection solutions, this is quickly becoming a very serious problem. At Nasuni we hear about unstructured data growth all the time from new and incoming customers, partners, first-time prospects, and IT leaders who switch to new companies and bring Nasuni with them. Gartner has taken the lead in tracking these trends and advising their clients on how to evaluate infrastructure and operations platforms in preparation for the years ahead.

When people in the technology industry talk about big data, they are typically referring to structured data. If you swipe or tap your credit card at a specific location, the information associated with that transaction will be logged and stored in structured form in a traditional or cloud warehouse. The technology solutions developed to store, analyze, and transform this structured data into business insights and advantages have been tremendously successful over the past decade. The industry has a handle on structured data.