How to Future-proof Your Business with Hybrid Cloud Storage

You have a challenge. Your business is collecting and processing a vast amount of file data from various sources. To remain competitive, you are going to need to use this data to enhance decision-making. And now there are new demands upon your data as you look to take advantage of emerging services — AI being the most relevant example. All of this requires that your business transition from being storage-centric to data-centric. It’s time to rethink how you store and manage data.

The traditional file storage solutions that many organizations still rely on fail to scale with the growing volume of data or satisfy the demands of latency-sensitive applications. Because these solutions tend to create silos of information, it can become nearly impossible to have the confidence that you are exposing the most accurate and current data to AI services for insights. The superior alternative is to adopt a centralized platform approach to file data management, and a new paper from the research team at Frost & Sullivan entitled The New Imperative: Future-proof Your Business with Hybrid Cloud Storage makes exactly that point.

Important Hybrid Cloud Storage Highlights to Consider

Hybrid cloud storage is an innovative architecture that combines the benefits of on-premises access speeds and integrated security with cloud-based storage. The benefits the new paper details include:

1. Scalability: Hybrid cloud storage features limitless scalability with all file data in a single namespace, eliminating constraints on growth
2. Unified data: With a unified, global file system businesses can securely and consistently make data available to AI services, facilitating effective AI initiatives
3. Localized performance: Intelligent caching of active data at the network edge ensures high performance for distributed workforces and applications
4. Built-in security: Along with other features, the ability to recover entire volumes in minutes offers unprecedented business continuity
5. Simplified management: Hybrid cloud storage offers centralized management, providing a single pane of glass for managing all file stores.

Ensuring Competitiveness in the AI Era

As Frost & Sullivan’s analysis explains, this is about more than a handful of benefits. This is about ensuring competitiveness in the AI era, preparing your company for the years ahead. The paper sums it up succinctly:

“Hoping that your tried-and-true, on-premises-based storage services will suffice or that your standard cloud storage provider will offer the capabilities needed to transform your data and become a data-centric business is not a formula for success. By being proactive and seeking out next-generation, hybrid cloud storage services, your business will ensure that data is widely available to all applications and services—including your AI integrations—for years to come.”

Read the paper for the complete story on hybrid cloud storage, and then contact us here at Nasuni to learn how we can help your business be more agile and effective, as we have done for others.