Dive Brief:
- Nasuni unveiled a file storage architecture that gives AI agents governed access to data through its cloud-based data platform, the company said in a Tuesday announcement. The offering, called AI Activate, will enter preview in Q2 and become generally available at the end of the year.
- The software company also expanded file-sharing capabilities by integrating peer-to-peer capabilities acquired last month in its purchase of Resilio. Active Everywhere, which will be generally available in June, provides LAN-speed file access globally without WAN optimization appliances or additional edge hardware, cutting down on rising infrastructure costs, according to Nasuni.
- “The era of solving file infrastructure problems with more hardware is over,” Nasuni CPO Nick Burling said in the announcement. “Supply is constrained, costs are rising, and enterprises need a better model.“Supply is constrained, costs are rising, and enterprises need a better model.”
Dive Insight:
The platform revamp positions Nasuni, which operates a 100% channel-led model, as a solution to the many thorny data accessibility challenges enterprises face on the path to AI adoption.
The company is pivoting from file storage to unstructured data management, CEO Sam King told Channel Dive.
“We feel very much that we were built for this moment,” he said. “For over a decade, we’ve been helping organizations make unstructured data accessible, secure and high-performance for distributed teams — and that’s exactly what AI systems need.”
The shift reflects broader industry changes. As enterprises race to adopt AI, many are running into the same roadblocks – fragmented data silos, security and governance concerns and rising infrastructure costs.
“This next phase is all about activation,” Burling told Channel Dive. “It’s about indexing data, providing context and making it usable for both teams and AI.”
Alongside its AI push, Nasuni is tackling a more immediate challenge facing partners and customers: the cost and availability of hardware.
With supply constraints and rising prices hitting traditional storage models, the company is doubling down on its software-defined approach.
“We’re hearing from partners that customers are calling them saying, ‘I have this problem – help me,’” said King. “We’re giving them a way to respond that doesn’t rely on more hardware.”
Nasuni expanded its platform with partners and their key clients in mind — AI data strategy and resilience.
“We’re attaching ourselves to what’s top of mind for CIOs. That gives our partners the opportunity to do the same,” said King.
AI Activate, in particular, creates service opportunities. The platform is designed to let partners integrate and build AI solutions directly on top of Nasuni’s data layer.
“We’re seeing partners go from modernizing infrastructure all the way through to building agentic AI solutions,” said Burling. “Now they can do that end-to-end with us.”
A unified view of data — combined with built-in governance and continuous indexing — is critical for AI use cases.
“You need visibility across your data, and you need to understand it before you can use it,” said Burling.
