AWS Storage Gateway vs Nasuni Cloud Storage

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a relatively large infrastructure in place and are consistently backing up servers for legal or compliance reasons, this is a good solution. Also, this fits where you may store logs for review in a point-in-time type of ecological view of your infrastructure. Finally, if you have a large reporting delivery (ETL), this is very handy as well as a quick shortcut for delivery of locally generated reports from the servers.

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Joe Hughes

Senior DevOps Engineer

Simpli.fiOnline Media, 201-500 employees

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Well suited if you have a lot of data that doesn't need to be stored and read right away. I think even if you don't have much data, you can still use it for it's intended purpose to great effect, but think of it as the more data you have, the even better it will work.I don't think it would be particularly useful if you already have a slick file restore system in place and you don't need to store your data elsewhere with redundancy.

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

AWS Storage Gateway

Nasuni Cloud Storage

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

File search

Device sync

AWS Storage Gateway

Nasuni Cloud Storage

User and role management

File organization

Device management

AWS Storage Gateway

Nasuni Cloud Storage

Performance

Reliability

Storage Reports

Pros

Configuration simplicity.
Use of standard storage protocols.
Easy integration with AWS services.
Data encryption in transit.

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Oscar Martinez

DevOps

Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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The management console is extremely simple and easy to navigate, making common tasks easy to do.
Our storage appliance is configured to snapshot data several times an hour, making the risk of data loss very low.
Data restores are very intuitive, and take seconds to initiate regardless of whether it is one file or 300GB of data. We have successfully restored many Gigs of data in minutes.

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Shawn Umansky

Network Engineer

Saint Michael's CollegeHigher Education, 201-500 employees

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Cons

It is fairly difficult to get initially configured (as with most things AWS).
It is not always speedy.
Relative location becomes important for speed of consistent usage.

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Joe Hughes

Senior DevOps Engineer

Simpli.fiOnline Media, 201-500 employees

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Better analytics when issues arise.
Better onboarding documentation.
Real-time monitoring.

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

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Nasuni Cloud Storage 9.0

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As I mentioned, the user interface is amazing and straight forward. It's very easy to learn how to configure and restore files. I would like a bit more reporting, especially in terms of live reporting and monitoring. The support is great when you have a question on how to do something, which helps with usability.

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Technician in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

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Nasuni Cloud Storage 8.0

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Again, it may have a little to do with the size and speed of your own environment, but we've been nothing but pleased with the speed of access of the files - even pulling old files from the cloud storage. Recovery of huge and many data files is a bit slow if you don't have the specs of the filer up to snuff.

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

AWS Storage Gateway 9.0

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AWS Storage Gateway is supported by the AWS Support team, they provide excellent support and great SLAs for our needs.

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Oscar Martinez

DevOps

Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We tried Red Hat Ceph Storage since we are a Centos/RHEL shop and there is a lot of engineering expertise on hand to manage it with configuration management tools and automation in place. What we discovered (rather quickly) was that the speed was difficult to bump up into nominal levels for attached disks, the network pipes' size did not matter, and there was an issue with logical disk management that would have added an extra layer of complexity to the whole inception of the product. We would have had to manage a backup of the system to our own buckets on top of implementing the tool.

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Joe Hughes

Senior DevOps Engineer

Simpli.fiOnline Media, 201-500 employees

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The technical support and escalation path for Nasuni is much more reliable and efficient. No getting transferred to various teams. Often times, the person who answers your call is able to resolve your issue. If they cannot, they get the case assigned to the appropriate engineer right away. Time to close has always been very good.

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Shawn Umansky

Network Engineer

Saint Michael's CollegeHigher Education, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Cheap and reliable offsite backup storage.
Low configuration time via API.
Shared storage solution for multiple clients.

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Oscar Martinez

DevOps

Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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Dramatically reduced time spent managing our storage platform. Quotas and reporting tools take all the guesswork out of data growth. Updates are easy to deploy. Time freed up can be used for more user-facing activities that we consider more valuable to the organization.
The overall stability of the platform has been very good. We have been running on the same hardware for the past four years without any performance issues.

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Shawn Umansky

Network Engineer

Saint Michael's CollegeHigher Education, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

AWS Storage Gateway Editions & Modules

Edition

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Per GB

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Nasuni Cloud Storage Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

AWS Storage Gateway

Nasuni Cloud Storage

AWS Storage Gateway

Nasuni Cloud Storage

AWS Storage Gateway

Nasuni Cloud Storage

AWS Storage Gateway

Nasuni Cloud Storage

Likelihood to Recommend