Name: Revolutionize Collaboration and AI Innovation with Unified File Data Management
Uploaded: 2025-03-04T17:31:04.282Z
Duration: 16 min 24 s
Description: Revolutionize Collaboration and AI Innovation with Unified File Data Management

Transcript for "Revolutionize Collaboration and AI Innovation with Unified File Data Management": Hello, everyone. How are you today? Really appreciate you joining today and and joining our little session here, a very short session. We are intentionally setting these up because we know you have other things to do in your in your in your life and in your job than attend long webinars. So this one is gonna be short and sweet and to the point. And with that said, I'm gonna get started. Please note that on the right side of your screen, you've got polls. You can also ask questions in the q and a tab. You can have chats. And if we have time, which I sort of doubt, we'll I'll be able to answer your questions, but we can do those as later as well and follow-up with you with answers onto your questions. So please feel free to ask questions, please. That's what we're here for, right, to learn something. Alright. Moving in. We're gonna talk about revolutionizing collaboration and AI innovation with unified file data management. That is, by the way, the world's longest webinar title. I just wanted to say we're following that with the Guinness Book of World Records. I wanna I wanna start with just some data points that will probably shock absolutely no one, but it's this idea that, strangely enough, top CIO investments for 02/2025 are really focused on a couple key areas. One of them is cybersecurity. Again, no surprise. Unfortunately, the scourge of ransomware and cyberattacks is with us and alive and well. The other one is, of course, taking advantage of artificial intelligence and generative AI in particular. And this is where a lot of your funding is going. This is where a lot of the interest is. But there's a couple key things you need to think about. You're gonna spend all this money and all this effort. This is what your CIO or your boss is telling you we need to focus on for the business and get going. Great. However, someone said a variation of this. I'll tell she is the, CIO at MKS Instruments. And I was at a, I was at an event, and she was speaking as part of a keynote. And she said, you know, she didn't say exactly this way. She said, you know, if you don't have a data strategy in place, your AI strategy is crap. And that's true. And this is a paraphrase version of that. But if you don't have an AI strategy, you don't have one without a data strategy. And that fundamental truth, when you think about how you're gonna fuel your AI initiatives, is really what we're gonna talk about today. And part of that is getting ready for AI. We built this lovely pyramid, and it but it kind of nicely, outlines as you think about your files and your your unstructured data and where that exists across your environment. I'm willing to guess you've got a couple different locations. The average I think probably the average of all the customers I speak with, the average is turns out to be around at least a dozen different locations for files that are being used for the business scattered around either in different file shares, different systems, what have you. And if you think about how do you how you want to approach this, you know, you you wanna first understand what you have. That seems obvious, but not everybody really fully understands. You go look and find out, oh, I didn't know those files were in our Singapore office over there. You uncover information. Then once you really truly understand your environment, you can consolidate. You can unify those silos into a into a single location. And I'll explain why you wanna do that in greater detail. And then really right along with that in parallel, it's really not the next step in some ways. It's really a security assessment as part of that, reviewing your reviewing where your gates are as, you know, assessing detection, protection, how your files are are being protected, how fast you can actually recover when something happens, because we all know it's probably when, and and being able to really respond quickly and recover quickly, which is critical to all this, certainly, and AI initiatives, collaboration, all of that. And then once you've got that all under control, curate the data. You know, in understand to have the analytics and the tools and the intelligence to understand really what you have, where it locates where it's located, and then be able to really take advantage of it. And in that from that fundamental approach, you can be ready for AI and ready for how you approach it. Because, really, like I said, a lot of us are facing this sort of mess on the left, sort of this traditional file infrastructure that we, you know, we we're we know all too well. And, honestly, whether this be on premises in your data centers, with with different locations and offices around the world or around the country or around the state, wherever whatever the scenario is. Plus, you've got backup and disaster I'm sorry. Backup and recovery and disaster recovery, configurations and infrastructure built into your environment. And so you've got a lot of data in a lot of different locations, potentially managed differently. And, certainly, there's a cost aspect associated with running all of this. Right? The the the new approach in terms of when I say new, really over the last several years, this approach towards hybrid cloud storage and being able to incorporate everything in a single unified environment allows you to have a single location for your not only your file data, but the services that you are associate with the management of that data, whether it be ransomware protection, you know, AI initiatives or anything else. And when you unify an infrastructure and bring your file data into a single location, you could there's a lot of benefits. You can spend a lot of time going to a to a site like nasuni.com and looking at customer testimonials, and you'll see that there's a huge benefit. Like, 47% less bit but less budget spend, if I could talk today. You know, the speed by which you can recover files, the efficiencies around managing files in different locations, significant cost savings and benefits. But we're here to talk about how to improve collaboration and how to improve, how you surface data for your AI initiatives. So let's take a quick look. You know, we are you are at a you are you have joined any a Nasuni webinar, and so we are fundamentally talking about Nasuni and but the value of a unified file data platform in general. There's three main benefits. IT efficiency, guess what? Managing a single location is a lot easier than managing 12. Yep. Don't have different administrative consoles. You don't have different policies. You're trying to streamline. You can you can associate staff and resources with on other projects that are maybe even more critical. You have the opportunity because of a a a unified file data platform and how it's built in the in the infrastructure within the cloud, you have significantly better resilience than you would ever have from a legacy file system. And that really counts for no matter what you're doing. If because if somebody does something crazy, clicks on a bad link, starts it introduces corruption into your environment, being able to capture that immediately at the edge and be able to stop it and mitigate it, stop the spread, and recover very quickly is essential. And all of this has cost savings, as I mentioned. You know, the the you know, you're looking at systems that instead of looking at ROI in years, you're now looking at an ROI in months at the speed at which you get you get that return on your investment. So, yeah, when you have all those three things in a in a single environment, yeah, it's a little it's pretty compelling. It's worth looking into, I would say. So we talked a little about collaboration. You know, being able to have a single location, having a single single space for all your files really speeds up and improves collaboration. Just we've all been there when you've got the same file and different versions of the file in different locations, the confusion associated with that. But being able to manage very large files, not just we're not just talking Word docs and PowerPoints, although sometimes they can be big. They're nothing in comparison to CAD files and, you know, three d models and and and building information management data and all of that, things that are larger, AEC files, InDesign, you know, Adobe files, those can get quite large. And and they are critical because teams need to collaborate and and rally around that information very quickly. So this architecture lends itself to really promoting the speed of collaboration, no matter how big your organization is. And by the way, there's no need for file backup because we're continuously versioning everything in the system. So, again, worth looking into. We're not gonna deep dive on that in in the next, several minutes, but I encourage you to learn more and investigate how you can take advantage of these. Now from an AI perspective, well, this is where this is where it gets interesting. Right? We're all as we saw before from the the the spend that is projected for 02/2025 and what we're you know, everyone's talking about AI every five minutes. How can I make the use of it? How can I really get my infrastructure in order, get my house in order? I can have everything in the single in a same location. It all appears as a single global namespace. Right? So you've got everything that appears to be in a single location, managed in a single location, access controls, distribution managed across your infrastructure, not just by accessing the cloud directly, but by accessing data at the edge close to where you are, close to where your workers are. And from an AI perspective, guess what? That means you can bring AI to the data. You can actually start to introduce, AI activities out at the edge. You don't have to run everything in the cloud or, you know, in in a central location. You can distribute some of the workload, and that depending on the size of your business and your use cases, that can be pretty attractive. And then, of course, the resilience we talked about being able to recover very quickly. A point in time just, you know, minutes ago, click a button, you're back up and running. It's a far cry from a legacy NAS system where you have to mount drives and copy data and all that. Who needs that? So what do you do with this data? What do what do we what do we what can you do? We're you know, we're we're talk to a lot of customers that are doing exactly what we're talking about today in terms of bringing information into a single location so then they can set up their efforts. A lot of times, no surprise. Everybody starts simply. Right? Looking to leverage search and AI enabled search to be able to do prompts against their data, and all the intellectual property that exists within an organization. There are many of examples of that. You can probably think of that in in in terms of your own organization. You're taking on a new project. Wouldn't it be great to use AI to be able to access and and leverage the data that you already have in house from all the other projects that are very similar that you've done over the last ten years and be able to incorporate that information in how you set up your next project? Pretty simple example. Generative AI is, of course, all the buzz. That's the you know, with our next iteration of not only, you know, leveraging AI from more of a search perspective, but being able to then generate new content or new information based on and extrapolate it from from not only from our own internal data, but then also being able to incorporate that with public LLMs and large models that, where I can gather all of that information and respond to my get my prompts responses back in a way that are are valuable either to my employees or to my customers that want to query my existing systems and and understand where my corporate data and the information that we provide as a company fits in the larger landscape. And then, you know, certainly, some organizations anyway are doing fine tuning and and model generation. They're augmenting their foundational models with corporate data. And a big way that folks are doing that, you know, today is now around RAG. So retrieval augmented generation to to get more detail in those responses, but really being able to approach and access your corporate data in a way that is that is safe, secure, you know, making sure that not the the wrong data is not going out, but being very selective about the corporate IP that is going out into and being exposed against AI prompts. Users are continuing to and customers are continuing to evolve this use of search and being able to, you know, locate data based on other criteria and and find information that they're looking for and then leverage that, in AI services. And then the other big, scenario that that we commonly see a lot or seeing a lot of lately is compliance, where you need to be able to identify sensitive information within a within a, within your repositories and being able to use tools like a data services connection to be able to access data and search across multiple volumes, to retrieve data from a legal and internal compliance perspective. They're being able to, you know, we we there are certainly case management systems out there that do some of this and but now we're looking to enhance that and, and come to conclusions about some of that data as well as just being able to locate it, which is, you know, so very interesting. The the what I think one good way that I'll leave you with to look at that and think about this. As you think about your own environment and what you're doing, there's really sort of four major steps as we see it in talking to our customers in terms of using unstructured file data and transforming how you're using how you use it and modernizing your environment. That first step, it's modernized. And I'm sorry. It's Unify. I can read. It's Unifi. Right? Bringing all your data together into a single location, really getting that house in order as I said. The second is the protection that you've gotta have. And as we talked very loosely about this, the business resilience against, you know, human error, cyberattacks, ransomware, hurricanes, whatever the case may be, that you have to be able to very quickly respond to those and being able to recover from those threats and and then ascertain and have the visibility to understand what happened and be able to monitor that monitor that system globally. Once you once you've got those two things in order, then it comes time to optimize. And that's where you can really, start to drive IT efficiencies around administration and your environment, standardizing on permissions and access controls and role based access controls and adhering to regulations because now you have everything in a single location. And then really the last step of the journey, well, that's where we're all striving to get to is maximizing the value of the data itself, taking advantage of that in AI integrations and other application integrations, right, to be able to tie it into workflows and make the most of that. And when you have that single location in the cloud, you can take advantage of AI and AI data services in ways that you never could before. That's where a unified file data platform comes in when we talk about collaboration and we talk about addressing AI initiatives, being able to have a single place where you can drive your costs way down, improve your business resilience, and make IT way more efficient, which we all need to do in this day and age in cutting our costs. That's what it's all about. And that's where I would encourage you to definitely take the next step. Right? You have two choices. You can do nothing. It's always a choice. I, yeah, decide not to do anything. I'll kick the can down the road. You know, you can do that if you'd like. Or you can look into how a hybrid cloud storage platform like Nasuni helps you drive down those costs and improve how you're going to set up your business for success long term with AI or any other initiatives you have in mind. Thank you so much for attending. Listen. It's 12:15 eastern time on the dot. I know that was a whirlwind. We do have a poll here. If you wanna answer that, just give us some idea of the size of your organization. We appreciate that. But we really appreciate you joining us today, taking a few minutes out of your time out of your day to hear me talk at warp speed Brilliant. And and introduce the ideas of having an unstructured file data all of your unstructured file data in a single location in a way in a way set up that you can use it for the long term without any kind of limitations and be able to scale and meet those initiatives that you know about today and the ones that are coming next year. Thank you so much for joining. Have a fabulous day, and, we hope to talk to you soon.