A crop of well-funded young businesses embrace blockchain, machine learning, data analytics and more to stave off costly disaster downtime.

Read the full list of nominees here.

Many cloud migration and cloud first strategies fail to live up to expectations. The problem is organizations spend too much time on micro issues like product selection and not enough time on big picture items like the cloud strategy’s foundation. In our on demand webinar, Storage Switzerland and SoftNAS discuss the problems these different cloud projects create, and how to create a foundation for your cloud strategy that guarantees success.

View the full slide deck on the StorageSwitzerland blog.

Customers typically count on cloud migration, cloud backup and cloud file systems to move data to the cloud but most of these solutions can only target one tier and can’t move data between tiers, leaving customers paying extra for cloud resources. Learn how SoftNAS SmartTiers storage auto-tiering, a feature of SoftNAS, can help customers save on storage costs.

Read George Crump’s full blog post here.

Read the full post by SoftNAS CEO and Founder Rick Braddy here.

Independent analyst George Crump outlines a step-by-step plan to achieve full cloud utilization to take full advantage of cloud storage and compute resources.

Read George Crump’s full blog post here.

Independent analyst George Crump shows how the cloud data fabric of SoftNAS Platinum can help customers more efficiently move their existing applications to the cloud.

Read George Crump’s full blog post here.

Most organizations use data protection as their first step into the cloud. Unfortunately, that first step, like many first steps, often results in a stumble. If organizations don’t create a cloud data fabric first, they often use an extension to their backup application which can’t fully leverage the cloud and starts a series of siloed approaches to cloud adoption.

Read George Crump’s full blog post here.

Read the full post by SoftNAS CEO and Founder Rick Braddy here.

Independent analyst George Crump discusses how SoftNAS can be a helpful tool when designing a holistic cloud data strategy.

Read George Crump’s full blog post here.

A case can be made that every company is now a data company. But, it is the effective use of data and not amassing stockpiles of archived data that counts.

Read the full op/ed by SoftNAS CEO Rick Braddy here.