Manufacturing Today Issue - 220 January 2024 | Page 50

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The company is turning towards innovative hybrid cloud solutions , such as Nasuni , to scale operations efficiently , mitigate risks , optimize costs , and ensure fast performance wherever it is needed across the globe .
Why hybrid cloud storage ?
The age of file storage silos has passed . Organizations cannot satisfy their end users and meet strategic business initiatives by relying on a file storage and data protection infrastructure designed around dozens of isolated technologies deployed at multiple factory locations . Cloud-only solutions create their own problems , as end users expect a level of performance that the cloud cannot always deliver .
Organizations worldwide are realizing the cost savings , efficiency gains , long-term scalability , and fast edge performance of a hybrid cloud file data platform . Hybrid cloud storage solutions that combine elements of on-premises systems with the many advantages of cloud are now an enterprise necessity . As IT infrastructure and operations teams transition from deploying hardware to providing data services , large manufacturing organizations have migrated tens of petabytes of globally distributed file data from local storage and into unified hybrid cloud storage .
The core appeal of hybrid cloud storage is simple . Enterprises want to maintain the familiarity and fast performance of traditional systems while taking advantage of the scale and cost efficiencies of the cloud . A wellarchitected hybrid cloud storage solution delivers an increasingly wide range of data services and capabilities that will help organizations do more with their unstructured data today and tomorrow , including data intelligence and insights derived via AI , cyber-resilience ( with builtin ransomware prevention , detection , and recovery ), compliance , lifecycle management , data mobility , and more .
Sixty percent of I & O leaders will implement hybrid cloud file deployments by 2026
- Gartner Research
Three ways hybrid cloud can benefit manufacturing companies
Consolidation NAS consolidation is a critical step in an organizations ’ efforts to control costs and scale for digital transformation initiatives . Many organizations have evolved their local networked storage over time and across multiple locations , installing a variety of storage vendors , increasing capacity asynchronously , and patching together a host of management tools to help them secure , protect and share local file data across multiple sites .
With a hybrid cloud solution like Nasuni , organizations can consolidate , secure , and access all their files in one shared global file system and a single namespace . Nasuni uses the most scalable , durable , and lowest-cost type of cloud storage - object storage - to consolidate all file data . Your organization gains operational excellence and frees up IT resources for other pressing projects by not having to manage NAS , file servers , backup , etc .
• Customer Spotlight : Jakob Müller Group Like many manufacturing leaders , Jakob Müller Group was relying on distributed
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