The Smart Way to Manage Data: Kiteworks and Wasabi for Regulated Industries

Enterprises are under increasing pressure to manage increasing volumes of sensitive data while negotiating complicated legal systems and rising infrastructure costs in the current business environment. For many businesses, finding a solution that efficiently balances security, compliance, and cost-efficiency without adding operational complexities is the actual issue.  

Alongside Laurie Mitchell, the Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at Wasabi Technologies, we interact with David Byrnes, the Vice President of Global Channels at Kiteworks, regarding their new relationship. They explore how customer demand has shaped this partnership, the special worth their combined solution provides to the market, and its particular importance for industries including finance, legal, government, and healthcare. 

Covering subjects from data sovereignty and third-party risks to IT simplification and cost savings, they clarify how Wasabi and Kiteworks enable companies to accomplish more while lowering risk. (Source: Techbullion)

What Specific Market Demand or Customer Pain Points Prompted the Collaboration Between Wasabi and Kiteworks?

Laurie Mitchell: Through discussions with their clients, particularly those in regulated sectors, they have consistently identified two major pain points: escalating cloud storage expenses and the increasing challenge of adhering to various regulatory compliance standards. 

Numerous organizations are grappling with the management of secure, compliant data while trying to remain within their often unpredictable storage budgets. Wasabi believes that organizations should have a straightforward option, which is access to high-performance cloud storage that fulfills compliance requirements without the burden of hidden costs or erratic fees.

David Byrnes: The customers of Kiteworks share the same concerns. Organizations are encountering an overwhelming amount of sensitive data traversing borders, systems, and platforms, leading to a corresponding rise in risk management responsibilities. Their mission is to mitigate that risk without complicating operations. The chance to collaborate with Wasabi arose at an opportune moment: Their pricing structure and storage efficiency align perfectly with our governance and security-first strategy.

How Does This Partnership Create Value More Than What Wasabi and Kiteworks Could Separately Attain?

David Byrnes: This scenario perfectly demonstrates the idea that the sum of individual parts is less than the whole. Using Wasabi and Kiteworks, businesses get a smooth connection of storage and safe file transfer. Governance, visibility, and auditability on the Kiteworks Private Data Network improve Wasabi’s scalable storage level. Including compliance into every file interaction, not just during storage, they give unrivaled complete life-cycle control that neither solution can offer alone.     

Laurie Mitchell: The simplicity and effectiveness of this partnership define its power. Clients wanting to send data to Wasabi no longer have to compile several tools or worry about security gaps between storage and transit. They eradicate the operational barriers often found between cloud infrastructure and data protection systems. Together, they are offering a thorough solution that allows IT and security teams to accomplish more with less.

How Does the Kiteworks Private Data Network Effectively Connect With Wasabi’s Hot Cloud Storage?

David Byrnes: The integration aims to be straightforward. Clients can establish secure, automated file transfers using our form-based workflow designer. The tool allows them to decide who and when the data should be sent to Wasabi storage, and who will later access it. 

Laurie Mitchell: A significant benefit for clients is the smoothness of this process. Wasabi provides high-speed, scalable cloud migration, while Kiteworks ensures that every file interaction, even during the migration stage, is encrypted, managed, and monitored. Clients do not have to sacrifice speed, cost-effectiveness, or control. Since Wasabi does not charge egress or API fees, the integrated solution offers all three advantages.

What Awaits This Partnership? Are Integration Improvements Intended, or Capacity Expansion Plans Under Development?

David Byrnes: David sees the partnership as just a beginning, and he looks forward to enhanced metadata tagging, deeper API interactions for real-time orchestration, as well as even links with AI-driven risk analysis.  Laurie Mitchell: She seconded what David said about partnership just being the beginning, she added that they are aligned partners committed to continuous innovation and advancement of AI-intelligent storage.