Interview As CTO of The New York Times two decades ago, Andres Rodriguez became frustrated with the time-consuming and unreliable process of backing up massive amounts of data that was only tested when it failed.
That experience led him in 2008 to launch Nasuni, building what has become a cloud-native global file platform that does away with traditional backups and instead constantly creates new versions of files that are not shipped to a backup system but instead are kept on the cloud-based platform. In addition, everything is managed – both in the cloud and on-premises – via the platform.
Enterprises save money by not having to build extensive backup environments and they can better protect their data, said Rodriguez, who also is now Nasuni's CTO. As an added bonus, the platform also gives organizations more tools to protect against the ongoing threat of ransomware.