The past few years have been volatile ones for the energy industry. Facing disruption on many fronts, companies see an urgent need to become more agile, resilient and competitive, and they realize that requires a stronger commitment to digital transformation and cloud technology. The energy industry has lagged behind most…
Russ Kennedy drives product innovation at Nasuni, leading the company’s product management, planning and roadmap efforts. He has a maniacal focus on ensuring Nasuni customers derive maximum benefit from its technology.
Kennedy is a well-known and highly regarded storage industry executive, with more than 25 years of experience developing software and hardware solutions to address exponential data growth. Before Nasuni, he directed product strategy at private cloud object storage pioneer Cleversafe through its $1.3 billion acquisition by IBM. While Kennedy was helping transition the product to what is now IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS), he began working with IBM partner Nasuni, and became convinced Nasuni’s cloud-native global file system is the only data management technology that truly exploits the strengths of object storage.
Oil and gas operations are commonly found in remote locations far from company headquarters. Now, it's possible to monitor pump operations, collate and analyze seismic data, and track employees around the world from almost anywhere. Whether employees are in the office or in the field, the internet and related applications enable a greater multidirectional flow of information – and control – than ever before.