Name: Navigating the Azure Cloud Waters for File Storage
Start: 2023-10-05T17:00:00Z
End: 2023-10-05T17:00:54.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Nasuni is a scalable data platform for enterprises facing an explosion of unstructured data in an AI world. 
The Nasuni File Data Platform delivers effortless scale in hybrid cloud environments, enables control at the network edge, and meets the modern enterprise expectation for insight- and AI-ready data. It simplifies file data management while increasing storage access and performance. Its best-in-class file recovery protects customers against a range of cyber threats and eliminates the need for specialized backup and disaster recovery – all while cutting the cost of infrastructure by up to 65%.
Organizations worldwide rely on Nasuni, spanning across the manufacturing, construction, energy, consumer goods, and public sectors. Nasuni’s corporate headquarters is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and the company delivers services to over 70 countries. For more information, visit  www.nasuni.com.

This session, originally premiered during Nasuni's CloudBound 2024, explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, addressing the evolving threats and opportunities posed by rapid advancements in AI technology. Elazari, a renowned cybersecurity expert, highlights how AI is reshaping both defense strategies and the threat landscape. The session delves into practical solutions for safeguarding data and infrastructure while anticipating the challenges of tomorrow's digital world.

AI, Cybersecurity, and the Technology of Tomorrow

Security is the biggest challenge and top concern when dealing with file data. Infrastructure teams that handle backup and security separately from storage often face overwhelming complexity, especially with the exponential growth of unstructured data. This problem will only get worse unless companies adopt hybrid cloud storage solutions with integrated security and backup.

In this short webinar, you'll learn about:
- Key industry trends from recent market research on file data infrastructure.
- The alarming confidence gap in ransomware preparedness and the real stats behind it.
- Essential components for ensuring file data resiliency, and how a hybrid cloud platform makes it possible.

15 Minute Coffee Break: Cybersecurity is Top of Mind

Faced with these evolving challenges and recognizing the pressing needs for security, growth, and the efficient movement of critical data, Manufacturing organizations are exploring solutions to transform their IT infrastructure. Nasuni offers a game-changing approach. With the ability to consolidate, secure, and access all files in a single global system, Nasuni eliminates the complexities of managing multiple storage technologies, reducing costs, and freeing up IT resources for strategic initiatives.

Gaining an Edge in Manufacturing with a Hybrid Cloud Solution

IT departments are at the forefront of implementing AI initiatives, driving innovation and efficiency. While organizations target data management and visibility through AI, adoption is not as easy. Understand the biggest challenges in AI implementation, including data security, and privacy concerns, and how to address them. 

In this short webinar, you’ll learn about:
- Key industry trends from recent market research on file data infrastructure
- Essential components in file data strategy for AI strategies
- Planned business investments by organizations.

15 Minute Coffee Break: The Growing Role of AI

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 to be Meaningful to You?

Join Nasuni for our virtual session on Data Security & Ransomware prevention. Take the next step to ensure your organization is protected at every level against bad actors. Join this session to learn more about multi-layered protection, detecting ransomware at the source, and mitigation. Nasuni's Product Management Director Mike Driscoll and Senior Product Marketing Manager Ben Clark will showcase the newest enhancements to the Ransomware Protection add-on solution including a live demo.

Spring Into Data Security & Ransomware Prevention

Massive data growth poses multiple problems for businesses using legacy file servers and NAS appliances. 

In this webinar, DCIG Storage Analysts Ken Clipperton and Todd Dorsey and Nasuni Product Marketing Director Lance Shaw will discuss these challenges and how hybrid cloud NAS solutions transform file data management while providing numerous benefits. Those benefits include: enabling organizations to handle growing data volumes, allowing enterprise-wide data visibility and management, and positioning organizations for new opportunities coming from AI initiatives.

Transforming Data Management: Hybrid Cloud NAS Solutions

Explore the seamless transition from legacy systems to Azure cloud with insights from Nasuni's customers Kleinfelder and GeoVerra as well as our partner Microsoft on this  pre-recorded webinar.

Picking The Right Azure Strategy for File-Based Workload

Navigating the obstacles from data creation to AI insights requires preparation. In this webinar, DCIG Analysts Ken Clipperton and Todd Dorsey and Nasuni’s Chief Innovation Officer for Data Intelligence and AI Jim Liddle, will examine the issues businesses face when seeking to apply AI to their file data. They will also discuss what organizations need to do to prepare their data for AI workloads and the successes customers are experiencing with Nasuni’s hybrid cloud NAS solution.

Transforming File Data Management: Getting Fit for AI

Enterprise storage has become a challenge for many sectors, but the stakes are particularly high for the oil and gas industry. Reliable access to the cloud is critical in order to maintain connection to oil rigs and construction sites around the world, but their remote locations add a layer of complexity. On top of that, the sensitive nature of industry data makes these companies vulnerable to ransomware attacks. The oil and gas sector needs the ability to store and share large seismic files on a global scale — while maintaining the sanctity of data — but this is easier said than done.

To combat this challenge both today and tomorrow, Nasuni has created the industry’s first Blueprint for Unstructured Data. This guidance is designed to help IT leaders meet their responsibility of putting data first. If something fatal happens to your company’s intellectual property, housed within years of file data, this could put your entire organization at risk. Companies can’t be expected to handle this new landscape without the right support; Nasuni’s Blueprint is created specifically to aid the oil and gas industry through this process.

In the latest webinar from Nasuni, storage security experts will break down why the oil and gas industry needs to be paying attention to file storage and illuminate the key components of the Blueprint.

Tune in to uncover:
— What it means for IT to be responsible for the Sanctity of Data
— Why traditional file infrastructure and backups are inadequate for oil & gas companies today
— The 5 critical elements of the Blueprint for Unstructured Data for IT leaders

The Blueprint for Unstructured Data: Fueling Oil & Gas’ Storage Strategy

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

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

Join Nasuni’s Chief Innovation Officer, Jim Liddle, and Chief Product Officer, Russ Kennedy, as they uncover the essential steps businesses must take to prepare for the era of AI. Discover the power of consolidating data in a centralized location as the foundational step towards unlocking AI-driven insights.  

Key Highlights: 
- Learn the importance of formulating a strong data strategy for a successful AI strategy 
- Explore Nasuni's global namespace solution for breaking down data silos and fostering a unified data ecosystem. 
- Discover how Nasuni empowers organizations to seamlessly capture, connect, and leverage data across the enterprise, whether on-cloud or at the edge. 
- Uncover some common challenges businesses face in getting their data ready for AI initiatives. 

Embrace this opportunity to gain actionable insights and get your organization ready for AI.

Navigating Data Challenges Before AI: Building a Foundation for Success

By 2026, 60% of I&O leaders will implement hybrid cloud file deployments, combining the familiarity and fast performance of traditional systems with the scalability and cost efficiencies of the cloud, offering the best of both worlds. 

Join Lance Shaw to learn more about hybrid cloud storage and how Nasuni revolutionizes file data management for enterprises.

3 Reasons Now is the Time for Hybrid Cloud

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

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

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