Backup

The State of Backup in 2017: New Nasuni eBook

By Louis Abate on June 1, 2017

No IT group loves their backup. It’s expensive. It’s difficult to manage. And it often fails to come through when you need it most. So how has backup survived? The answer is simple. Despite all of its flaws, backup is still absolutely necessary. To maintain business continuity in the event of local hardware failures, power… Continue Reading »

Today is World Backup Day 2017 – For Nasuni Enterprise Customers, It Can Be a Vacation Day

By Dezie Okpoebo on March 31, 2017

March 31st has become World Backup Day, a day meant to remind everyone to focus on “the enormous task of preserving our increasingly digital heritage and cultural works for future generations.” The annual commemoration was originally intended to raise awareness with consumers about the importance of data protection, so the founders picked the day before… Continue Reading »

An Alternative to Backup? Finally Yes, Thanks to the Cloud and Continuous File Versioning

By Fred Pinkett on March 30, 2017

The cloud is enabling IT to rethink its use of legacy tools and processes that, for years, have been costly and cumbersome. Storing and protecting files is a prime example. Does anyone in IT really love administering backup? Or trying to recover files from their backups? Thanks to cloud storage and a new technology called… Continue Reading »

5 Best Practices for Freeing IT Resources

By Tony Giannini on March 27, 2017

Each year, IT is tasked with a growing number of strategic or business-changing initiatives. There are more of these projects, and they are more important to the enterprise. In fact, IT’s ability to deliver on these projects directly correlates to the success of the business. Yet IT is not being given additional resources to handle this growing critical workload…. Continue Reading »

Confessions of a Former Tape Jockey: The Evolution of Data Protection in the Cloud Era

By Bill Fields on December 7, 2016

In the early 1980s, my first job out of school was in IT. As the minion in the group, I had the thankless role of managing the tape backups, and I’m constantly amazed at how much data protection has changed. What used to take an entire day’s work is not only automated, it’s faster, more… Continue Reading »

Leading Home Audio Manufacturer Turns to Nasuni for File Storage

By Louis Abate on June 2, 2016

Our customers reach out to Nasuni because they either want to solve a very specific pain point – rising backup costs, for example – or address an entire laundry list of problems related to unstructured data growth. D+M Group, a global provider of innovative and high quality sound solutions, belongs to the latter category. They… Continue Reading »

How Snapshots Can Replace Backup as a Primary Data Protection Solution

By Fred Pinkett on February 23, 2016

The cloud is changing data storage and protection in fundamental ways, and the snapshot is no exception. Snapshots are images of a disk at particular points in time. While the first snapshot generally covers an entire disk, the subsequent ones only capture the changes, ensuring more efficient use of capacity and bandwidth. Snapshots have long… Continue Reading »

What’s Next For Enterprise Storage? 2016 Predictions

By Andres Rodriguez on January 7, 2016

What an amazing year. In 2015, we doubled our business for the third year in a row. We released UniFS® 7 with all new Sync & Share capabilities. Our refreshed hardware line includes a boost in performance and a new member of the family, the all-flash NF-600. We opened a London office, expanded our worldwide… Continue Reading »

The Slow and Painful Death of Backup

By Fred Pinkett on September 29, 2015

There is risk in predicting the demise of any powerful and popular technology. Antivirus software and firewalls have hung around far longer than some predicted, for example. The reality is that any successful technological solution, once it has become entrenched in large organizations or industries, acquires a certain amount of stickiness or inertia. Even massively… Continue Reading »

The Unexpected Benefits of Cloud-integrated Storage

By Louis Abate on September 2, 2015

Enterprises typically start searching for a cloud-integrated storage solution to address a particular problem. It could be the unchecked growth in the size and volume of business files. Maybe the IT staff is looking for a more efficient way to manage storage across the organization. Or they have an informed suspicion, based on all the… Continue Reading »

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