October Cloud Coverage: Gartner Magic Quadrant Drama, AWS Scalability, Cybersecurity and More!

October's roundup of cloud storage buzz, popular content, and Nasuni coverage.

View in browser Monthly Cloud Coverage October 2019 Resources & Content   4 Ways Western Digital is Accelerating Global Engineering Productivity with Nasuni After merging with two other large companies, including SanDisk, data storage technology leader, Western Digital, needed a way to unify file storage and data protection across its global estate.   When IT leadership learned that Nasuni was already providing unlimited capacity and fast, secure file access at multiple SanDisk offices, Western Digital launched a plan to consolidate all global locations under Nasuni's UniFS® global file system with its own ActiveScale™ hybrid-cloud object storage system as the backend. The company now has 105 Nasuni appliances worldwide accessing 1.2 PB of capacity in ActiveScale.  Gartner Magic Quadrant Drama - Stay Calm and Look to the Clouds for Your File Backup Needs If you haven't been following the drama in the Backup and Recovery category these past few weeks, Nasuni CMO, Dave Grant, provides his perspective.   Last week, Gartner Group published their "Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions Magic Quadrant" and a few vendors publicly complained about their position. Confused by why vendors would be upset with being placed in the 'Visionary' category, especially in a space like Data Center Backup that is ripe for disruption, Nasuni CMO, Dave Grant, shares his thoughts.    In this post, Dave explains why earning a spot in the Visionaries category is a good thing in a legacy market.  Nasuni Coverage AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog: How to Get the Global Scalability of AWS Storage at Local Speed with Nasuni  We are excited to see AWS talking this month about how easy it is to leverage Nasuni and AWS Storage to provide nearly infinite file server capacity, while offering the high-performance file access of traditional NAS and saving customers an average of 40%-60%/year in the process.   Henry Axelrod, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, points out why Nasuni is attractive to AWS prospects and customers, "Nasuni is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner with the AWS Storage Competency. With industry-leading encryption, local performance, and pay-as-you-go pricing, Nasuni makes it easy and cost-effective to add storage capacity." Cloud Storage: Future Directions In early October, Datamation interviewed enterprise cloud storage expert and Nasuni CTO and Founder, Andres Rodriguez, on the future of cloud storage. In this article they discuss the path that led to the current state of cloud storage, how effective cloud storage enables AI, and the future direction of cloud storage, including the focus on file optionality. Industry Insight Some Thoughts and Actions for Cybersecurity Awareness Month  "It's time we stopped treating cybersecurity awareness month like a federal boondoggle and started an honest concerted effort to truly educate the public and make measurable progress on cybersecurity awareness every October." says ESG Analyst, Jon Oltsik.   In this ESG article, Oltsik, shares his observations on the deficit of cybersecurity knowledge across the industry and he highlights how business and IT executives, and cybersecurity professionals, can benefit from raising cybersecurity awareness and taking action within their organization.   Nasuni In 2 Minutes Get a Demo Contact Us Nasuni, One Marina Park Drive, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, USA, +1.857.444.8500 Unsubscribe Manage preferences