Name: Why Now, More than Ever, You Should Migrate Windows File Servers to Azure Cloud
Start: 2020-09-29T15:00:00Z
End: 2020-09-29T15:00:32.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Nasuni is a leading hybrid cloud storage solution that powers business growth with effortless
scalability, built-in security, and fast edge performance using a unique cloud-native architecture.
The Nasuni File Data Platform delivers operational excellence by consolidating NAS and backup,
eliminating data silos, and making management easy and flexible without changes to apps or
workflows. Its built-in security offers proactive defense and rapid recovery, lowering organization’s
risk from the detrimental effects of ransomware attacks and other disasters. Synchronized access
to file data everywhere ensures user productivity by supporting remote and hybrid work.

Migrating your file share environment to the cloud brings a variety of significant benefits to your organization, but getting there may seem daunting. Join us for this conversation with Nasuni customers who have made the move to the cloud and learn their top strategies for migration planning, overcoming challenges and concerns, and how they worked with other stakeholders to ensure a successful move to the cloud.

Top Strategies for Making Your Journey to the Cloud a Success

Living in the hybrid cloud era means business is constantly challenged to meet the demand of data growth, while responding to the need of constant data movement. Join Nasuni, AWS and Presidio leaders as they discuss this trend and requirements of secure workloads and applications as they evolve and require ever increasing remote access.

The Role of Hybrid Cloud in a Public Cloud World with AWS and Presidio

The time is now to start thinking about ways that Data Intelligence and AI can be leveraged in your organization to improve productivity, uncover new opportunities, be more responsive to customers, and it all starts with your data. During this session, Nasuni’s Chief Innovation Officer, Jim Liddle and Nasuni Chief Product Officer, Russ Kennedy will discuss the steps businesses can take to be AI ready and the importance of consolidating data in a centralized location as step one for your future data intelligence strategies.

Envision Tomorrow with Data Intelligence and AI

Moving data securely to meet the needs of business is challenging and when faced with the demand to sync operations and production globally, that adds additional security and monitoring challenges. Malcolm Brown, Global IT Manager of Geoactive Limited will have a candid discussion with Nasuni’s Steve Skidmore during which he will recap lessons learned as he led the global IT Team at one of the globe’s largest energy companies. You’ll have an opportunity to pose questions and learn how Malcolm pushed fast-edge performance across distributed operations for his company.

Powering Efficiency in the Energy Sector with Hybrid Cloud

Leadership teams are re-engineering decision modelling by leveraging the power of data, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive a competitive advantage.

Hear Senior Analyst Stephen Catanzano from Enterprise Strategy Group and Nasuni's Director of Product Marketing, Lance Shaw while they discuss the challenge of multiple data sources and outline strategies to control costs. Stephen reviews the importance of how to lead when dealing with multiple stakeholders and map best of breed vs. single vendor strategy to move forward and achieve success. 

Watch this on-demand webinar with Enterprise Strategy Group to learn about:
- What does having a modern data platform actually mean. 
- What are the challenges companies are facing when trying to move into a modern data platform system. 
- What are the most important aspects an organization should take into account when rethinking their data platform strategy.

The Path to Achieving Data Driven Performance

Hear from Nasuni customers and our chief innovation officer as they talk about data intelligence and AI. Where do they see potential, limitations, pitfalls, and expected future growth with leveraging the power of these new technology advancements?

Where Will AI and Data Intelligence Need to be Meaningful to You?

As a top-tier partner and winner of Microsoft’s Global Azure ISV Partner of the Year award, Nasuni is working closely with customers that want to leverage Azure to store, protect, share, and collaborate on rapidly growing file data.

Hear Nasuni President, David Grant, as he talks with Microsoft Azure Sales Leader, Paul Kimbel about the innovations with leveraging AI-ready infrastructure, and addressing the need for cost optimization to attain secure, sustainable growth. 
 
Watch this on-demand webinar with Microsoft to learn about:
- The potential of AI in data management and storage.
 - An insight into how AI is been leveraged within the enterprise environment.

Microsoft: Unlocking an AI Revolution with Azure

Protecting your organization’s network is becoming even more challenging with guarding against internal and external threats as AI is unleashed.
Ed Amoroso, Founder and CEO of TAG InfoSphere and Moriah Hara, Senior Advisor of TAG-Cyber; talk with Anne Blanchard, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Nasuni, about the key considerations that organizations face when designing their hybrid cloud environment.  

Watch this on-demand webinar with TAG to learn about:
- What are the key things to implement for providing a strong security profile in a hybrid cloud environment.
- From which department should the investment come when implementing security in your company. 
- Which steps to take to prevent ransomware attacks or to recover from them. 
- What’s the CISO’s current role in getting ready for AI approaches.

Top Things You Need for Building in Data Security Across Your Hybrid Cloud

How can you select the right cloud architecture for your organization?

Nasuni's Anne Blanchard, Senior Director of Product Marketing, chats about the issue with David Linthicum, Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consulting; who has spent years educating individuals and organizations on how to go about choosing the right architecture for their needs, who should be involved, and what fundamentals need to be understood before implementation.

Watch this on-demand webinar with Deloitte Consulting to learn about:

How to identify and define the current problems your infrastructure may have. How to implement a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy that works for your organization. What are the main factors you should consider when selecting a specific cloud architecture.

Steps Companies Should Consider When Planning Their Cloud Architecture

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

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

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

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

In today’s world, data is everywhere, and users demand seamless access to their files no matter where they are and from any device. You need a solution that optimizes current infrastructure and enhances user productivity while being easy to manage. Nasuni Access Anywhere addresses your company’s’ file sharing and collaboration challenges by delivering a solution that provides high-performance file access to the end users without compromising security and control.

Attend this webinar hosted by Nasuni’s Jim Liddle, VP of Access Anywhere and Vareeli Patel, Senior Product Marketing Manager, where you will learn:

· How Nasuni Access Anywhere supports remote and hybrid users by providing frictionless file access regardless of location, delivering file transfer acceleration, and ensuring security standards.

· Key use cases that Nasuni Access Anywhere addresses in terms of collaboration, external content sharing, and Microsoft Teams and Office 365 integration and how they will drive new opportunities.

· When combined with the Nasuni File Data Platform, Nasuni Access Anywhere can serve as a single source of truth for all your customer’s file data.

Meet the Challenges of Today’s Remote and Hybrid Work Environment

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

Running a file services infrastructure in a world where new ransomware attacks seem to be announced daily presents significant challenges. It is critical to ensure your file services can rapidly identify an attack so that you can respond quickly and effectively. In this webinar, we will take you through some of the important considerations to building a cyber resilient infrastructure. We will cover topics including incident detection, management, and mitigation. We will also demonstrate Nasuni’s Ransomware Protection capabilities and discuss how Nasuni will allow you to respond automatically to an attack, minimizing downtime and reducing the impact to your business.

Building a Cyber Resilient Infrastructure

The evolution of ransomware has spurred many organizations to focus on plans for recovering from attacks as quickly and efficiently as possible. Companies have relied on traditional backup to restore access to recent versions of data without having to pay the ransom from cyber-attacks. As more companies shift to the cloud, reliance on a traditional backup solution is no longer a sound strategy as they may require weeks to recover files and lack the scale needed to handle distributed attacks.
 
Join three cyber-security experts as they discuss the limitations of traditional backup when it comes to ransomware and how modern cloud solutions are stepping in to fill the gap when it comes to:
· Rapid file restoration
· Multi-site restoration
· Training, testing and preparing for attacks
· Predictable RPO’s and RTO’s that help your business manage risk
· Immutable file storage options other than tape

5 Reasons Why Traditional Backup Doesn’t Work During a Ransomware Attack

Migrating an organization’s file data to the Azure cloud can address a number of pain points that are commonly associated with storing and managing large quantities of unstructured data. However, enterprise class organizations have traditionally shied away from performing large scale file server migrations to the cloud, citing concerns over logistics and latency.
 
Attend this presentation to:
• Learn about the major trends, ranging from Window’s Servers 2008’s end-of-life, to the need for remote file access, which are driving companies to migrate file data to the Microsoft Azure cloud now.
• Understand three different cloud migration solutions that can be implemented and how they differ with respect to architecture, salability and cost, and how the choice of Azure storage types significantly impacts the price you pay. 
• Hear company examples of moving windows file servers to Azure Blob and Nasuni, their decision-making process and the results they achieved.

Why Now, More than Ever, You Should Migrate Windows File Servers to Azure Cloud

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