Name: Cloud Economics in a Time of Crisis
Start: 2020-08-13T18:00:00Z
End: 2020-08-13T19:00:33.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Unstructured file data is growing faster than ever before. The landscape of enterprise file storage is going through a period of rapid change. NAS and SAN are the acronyms of legacy hardware. Object storage is the future - but it needs a file system. Subscribe to the Nasuni channel to learn how UniFS® - the world's first Global File System - is enabling enterprises to take advantage of the cost savings and scale of object storage for files.

New digital innovations have pushed companies to reconsider their technology infrastructure, with many making the decision to utilize the cloud. As a result, cloud adoption is rampant: Gartner predicts that public cloud end-user spending would hit $495.7 billion this year, a growth of nearly $84 billion since 2021. Yet these cloud migrations can be complex and it’s not always a case of simply moving everything from one place to another. Instead, organizations must be strategic about how they approach their file storage — especially when choosing a cloud provider, such as Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Azure is a great choice when selecting a solution for storing, protecting, and accessing files, but IT leaders are often confused trying to sort through the various similar-sounding options. Some companies want to migrate from on-premises NAS, while others have been using Windows file servers or other file storage infrastructure. Making an informed decision on which solution will work best is the only way to ensure that your files stay safe, secure and accessible — whichever location you choose. 

In this webinar from the file data platform company Nasuni, industry experts will map out the decision making options for migrating file storage to Microsoft Azure. Tune in to hear more about: 

— Why leading companies are moving to cloud file storage in Azure
— The differences between Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files, and Azure Blob with the Nasuni File Data Platform
— The key considerations when identifying the right Azure storage solution
— And much more

Navigating the Azure Cloud Waters for File Storage

Overcoming Business Challenges with the Cloud: How Two Industry Leaders Are Modernizing Their Infrastructures with Cloud-Native File Services

Moderated by Barrie Kuza, Nasuni vice president of customer experience, this webinar brings together several Nasuni customers for an interactive discussion around key areas of focus for their organizations, how the cloud is being leveraged to support a hybrid workforce (and the challenges that come with it!), delivering operational efficiencies, and remaining competitive. Speakers to also address the steps their teams are taking or considering when it comes to being cyber resilient including what keeps them up at night!

Overcoming Business Challenges with the Cloud

TBWA is a unit of Omnicom Group, one of the world’s largest advertising agency holding companies. They are known as pirates – creative renegades who take risks and rewrite rules to come up with brave brand-building ideas for clients including Nissan, adidas, Henkel, Michelin and Gatorade. However, it’s hard to be creative when ideas cannot be easily shared. Files generated by TBWA’s creative teams are among the company’s most valuable assets. Storing, protecting, and sharing this creative content across the globe became a challenge as the agency grew to 305 offices in 98 countries. Join this fireside chat conversation with Don Pointing, global IT director for TBWA as he sits down with Jim Liddle, Nasuni vice president of product for a lively conversation around how Nasuni and the Nasuni Access Anywhere solution are enabling TBWA to reduce on-prem storage costs and improve collaboration across globally dispersed teams.

Advertising Leader Achieves Digital Transformation, Cost-Saving, & Hybrid Work

Join Rohana Meade, President, CEO, and Founding Partner of Synergy Technical and Anne Blanchard, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Nasuni as they take a closer look at the key IT trends that have emerged since the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise and rapid adoption of collaboration solutions – with a particular focus on Microsoft Teams and O365, and the challenges and opportunities around building a infrastructure that supports the access, security, and collaboration needs of today’s hybrid world.

Collaboration Challenges and Opportunities in a Hybrid World

At one time, recovering from backup alone was the first step in addressing ransomware. Today, though, what used to be the front line in the battle is now considered the last bastion of a defense-in-depth strategy that relies on detection, prevention, and, ultimately, the ability to recover. During this discussion, Scott D. Lowe, CEO of ActualTech Media, will share with you key insights into each of these critical elements of a comprehensive ransomware readiness strategy and help you identify ways to increase your organization’s resiliency.

Battling Ransomware: How a Three-Pronged Approach Maximizes Protection

Adopting a hybrid cloud approach inevitably leads to trying to optimize cloud choices for specific operations and applications.  The result is tension between a mandated single cloud approach for the enterprise and one that is optimized for specific use cases.  Join cloud-agnostic Nasuni cloud file storage as we discuss how customers have approached the choice to go single cloud vs multi-cloud for their unstructured file data.  Listen to this session and learn:
*How nuances in public cloud vendors offerings can lead to the need for a multi-cloud approach
*What the challenges and rewards are for pursuing multi cloud for file storage
*What to look for in a multi-cloud file storage solution

Mastering Enterprise Multi-Cloud Management

Switching from legacy, on-premises storage to cloud storage has distinct advantages, including scalability, interoperability and costs savings. In a world where businesses are still adjusting to the events of 2020, these benefits are more useful and apparent in 2021 than ever before.

But not all cloud storage solutions are built equally, and different industries and businesses have different challenges that require different solutions. In episode 1 of Nasuni’s ‘The Power of Cloud Storage’ series we’re diving into what enterprises need to consider from their cloud storage solutions and hearing from those in the field why the right modernization approach can redefine your enterprise storage strategy.

Join us to hear:

- The benefits of moving to the cloud - including consolidating NAS and file server silos, enhancing cross-office file sharing, improving data protection, reducing operational inefficiencies and eliminating capacity limitations
- How a cloud-first approach to your storage can future-proof your business by centralizing data, increasing collaboration and data protection, and offering unrivaled disaster recovery
- How enterprises can reduce or eliminate legacy file infrastructure capex and opex costs by shifting to cloud-based file storage
- And more

Storage Modernization: Gaining the Competitive Edge With the Cloud

Cyber security is a high priority for many organizations, but they often find it difficult to make a business case for infrastructure investment in areas such as data protection and management. A different way to approach this is to think not just of risk management and technology, but to structure the investment case around business advantage as well. Namely, to switch the conversation from infrastructure to what’s good for the business and all its stakeholders.

Topics considered will include:

Is information an enterprise asset or is it confined to groups and departments?
What the business benefits could be if it were made securely available to more users?
It’s vital to move at the pace of the business and IT, not that of a vendor.
The importance of broadening file access in terms of business advantage, rather than IT.

Another Way to Think About the Business Case for Investment in Cyber Security

IT professionals in government, education, and commercial organizations are under increasing pressure to modernize aging file infrastructure. Ransomware, work-from-home, data center consolidation, and compliance initiatives require new ways to store, protect, and share fast-growing file data. 

In this webinar, hear two IT leaders reveal why moving their on-premises file servers, NAS, backup, and DR infrastructures to Nasuni and Azure has helped prevent project delays and cost overruns, while also enabling their organizations to better fulfill their missions.

You will also learn how Nasuni file services, combined with Azure object storage, enable you to: 
• Share files within departments, across sites, or even between agencies and outside contractors with greater speed and simplicity.
• Restore files to points just minutes before a ransomware attack and recover PB of data in seconds, without paying ransoms.
• Shrink your data center footprint by an average of 90% to satisfy state and local environmental mandates.
• Reduce the total cost of procuring and managing file storage up to 60%.

IT Leaders Speak: Why We Moved Our File Shares to the Cloud

We live in the era of distributed data and operations. Remote work has become the norm. Application and data environments commonly span multi-cloud ecosystems. In this discussion, Scott Sinclair, practice director from ESG, will share recent research on the how distributed data and operations are impacting businesses. And, how decision makers can position their organizations for success as environments become even more distributed moving forward.

Challenges of Remote and Hybrid Work

Ransomware is evolving, forcing enterprises to change how they prepare for attacks. While the focus on preventing attacks continues, forward-thinking organizations have accepted that no defense is impenetrable, and that any solid ransomware strategy must include a robust, reliable, and testable recovery plan. In this webinar, leading analysts from Evaluator Group, DCIG, and Omdia share their insights, strategies for how minimizing risk, and how the cloud is playing a key role in mitigating the threat of ransomware.

Industry Panel: Data Recovery in the Face of Ransomware

Strategies and Technological Approaches for Addressing the Remote Access to File Data Problem, Data Explosion, and Why You Need an Integrated Technology Approach

Join this engaging three way conversation that discusses a technology approach to the remote-access-to-file-data problem in the context of a data explosion and hence need for low-cost cold data storage. Conversation to explain why an integrated technology approach is better and why. Discussion to specifically address:

How and why the NFS and CIFS file services protocols are inefficient when used for remote access by single users wanting to run applications such as VDI.

How a separate presentation access layer of software can be integrated with the file services layer to combat the remote access inefficiencies. What interface functions are needed to integrate or bridge the two layers and why?

How and why a cloud-based file services layer remedies the disadvantages of central data center-based file storage systems. For example, they no longer need file lifecycle management (HSM) / storage management functionality to tier data off to cheap longer-term storage in the public cloud -because that functionality can be integrated into a cloud-based file services system.

Why You Need an Integrated Technology Approach:  Remote Access to File Data

Join Wintel Manager, Matt Wardle of GITOps/IaC Lead, Man Group, an active investment management firm, as he and John Capello, Nasuni Field CTO engage in a lively conversation around the various was that the Man Group is leveraging Nasuni in their environment. Hear first-hand details around the challenges encountered when working with particular data sets, the collaboration between the two organizations, and the unique ways the Man Group has engaged with the Nasuni File Data Platform to fit the needs of their business.

Future of a Composable Infrastructure

This fireside chat provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the Arsenal Football Club is leveraging a cloud solution to create a single namespace interface, collaborate on media assets regardless of where they are stored, and improve overall workflows, all while maintaining a high level of confidence that critical security and access measures are not compromised.

Fireside chat with Arsenal Football Club: Winning with the Cloud

SharePoint is being widely adopted as a cloud-based document management system. It also the foundation for OneDrive and Teams. All three offer file storage. So which one do you use? And how do modern file server replacements like Nasuni fit in? Attend this session to learn how enterprises are using all four in concert, and the technical differences and use cases for each.

SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, or File Servers?

With concerns about the environment constantly on the forefront, businesses should seek to do their part and reduce waste while maintaining efficiency and optimizing costs. The green cloud covers the many environmental benefits provided by cloud use such as reduced data center carbon footprint. Green cloud computing can even reduce costs when properly applied, making it a no-brainer for cloud-invested companies to explore. Tune into this panel discussion to hear experts in the field discuss some practical, real-life tips to making your cloud infrastructure more environmentally friendly:

• How to select a green cloud service provider.
• The action steps to help “green” your data center such as optimizing infrastructure and tracking usage.
• The newer technologies like machine learning that can replace the older more wasteful ones.
• How the green cloud can ultimately speed up digital transformation efforts.

Enhance sustainability and reduce costs with green cloud computing

Moving to a cloud strategy is the most effective way to break free of outdated IT practices and the financial constraints they put on a business, particularly during these uncertain times. Unfortunately, building a business justification for the cloud is not always as straightforward as it seems, often relying on false apples-to-oranges comparisons. What is often missed is that cloud solutions replace many existing hardware, equipment, and physical space expenses, and reduce “soft costs” with intangible benefits for employees and IT. Cloud initiatives can also harbor new, hidden costs on their own.  

In this live panel, leading industry experts with extensive cloud expertise will walk you through: 
• How to ensure your TCO and ROI models are built correctly and make an ‘apples to apples’ comparison 
• Uncovering and exploring your existing hard and soft costs that will be impacted by moving to the cloud 
• Understanding the financial impact of moving from a CapEx to a subscription based OpEx model 
 
Speakers 
John Capello, Vice President of Product Strategy, Nasuni
David Campbell, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs 
David Totten, Chief Technology Officer US Partner Ecosystem, Microsoft  

Moderator 
Krischel Crawley, Vice President Sales - West, Nasuni

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