There’s a special kind of pride that wells up when you hear someone speak passionately about your work – your company, your team, your mission. Sitting in the audience at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Las Vegas, I felt that pride in waves as one of our customers took the stage to share his journey of modernizing file services with CTERA.
As one of the top consulting firms in the architectural, engineering, and surveying industry—a company of over 900 talented people spread across 33 offices. As he began discussing their challenges and efforts to overcome the constraints of inadequate BC/DR solutions and file service inefficiencies, it became clear that these struggles mirror the widespread issues many enterprise companies face in managing data growth and navigating the escalating complexities of cybersecurity.
But here’s the thing that struck me most: he didn’t just talk about technology. He spoke about transformation.
A Journey of Innovation and Trust
Like many of our customers, he described how previous hybrid cloud solutions had been falling short – how large file caching and rehydration challenges were bottlenecks for critical workflows. His words painted a picture of a team burdened by limitations yet determined to find a better way.
And then came the pivot point in his story – he shared how deploying CTERA’s Hybrid Cloud Data Platform, with integration to Wasabi S3 cloud storage. He highlighted the incredible speed and reliability our Edge Filers brought to their operations, enabling seamless access to their global file system no matter where the data resided.
I couldn’t help but feel a deep sense of gratitude. Here was someone at the forefront of his industry, talking about how the technology I helped design over more than a decade, enabled his vision as a leader.
Insightful Takeaways That Stole the Show
Among the many insights shared by our customers over the past year, a few stood out to me as particularly impactful:
- Local Performance at Scale: CTERA’s subfolder pinning allows granular control over data, ensuring fast local access for the files that mattered most, when they mattered most.
- Seamless Integration and Speed: the performance of CTERA in accessing CIFS data and how our solution didn’t slow down their critical tools that can lead to make-or-break factor in their decision.
- Cost Efficiency: By leveraging CTERA’s integration with Wasabi comes financial relief. Wasabi’s zero egress fees complement CTERA’s hybrid architecture, keeping an organization’s costs low and predictable.
- A Future Enabled: Perhaps the most rewarding insight I hear from our customers is when they refer to CTERA an “enabler” for their growth – helping them geographically expand and drive revenue in their other parts of the world or in other divisions.
A Heartfelt Thank You
Hearing this customer’s story reminded me why we do what we do. It’s easy to get caught up in the technical details: the specs, the features, the benchmarks. But at its heart, our work is about empowering leaders in organizations to break boundaries and achieve their best.
Thank you for sharing your journey with such authenticity and passion. Thank you to all of our customers for trusting CTERA to be part of your story, and reminding me of the immense impact our work can have in the real world. As I left the session, I couldn’t help but feel excited about what’s ahead: not just for CTERA, but for the amazing customers we’re privileged to serve.
Here’s to many more moments of inspiration and gratitude!
