Skip to main content
TrustRadius
Nasuni

Nasuni

Overview

What is Nasuni?

The Nasuni File Data Platform is a cloud-native suite of services offering user productivity, business continuity, data intelligence, cloud choice, and simplified global infrastructure. The platform and its add-on services replace traditional file infrastructure, including network attached storage (NAS), back-up,…

Read more
Recent Reviews

TrustRadius Insights

Nasuni has proven to be a valuable solution for users looking to address aging file storage infrastructure and manage rapidly growing …
Continue reading
Read all reviews
Return to navigation

Pricing

View all pricing
N/A
Unavailable

What is Nasuni?

The Nasuni File Data Platform is a cloud-native suite of services offering user productivity, business continuity, data intelligence, cloud choice, and simplified global infrastructure. The platform and its add-on services replace traditional file infrastructure, including network attached storage…

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.nasuni.com/pricing-tco

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?

7 people also want pricing

Alternatives Pricing

What is Egnyte?

Egnyte provides a unified content security and governance solution for collaboration, data security, compliance, and threat detection for multicloud businesses. More than 16,000 organizations trust Egnyte to reduce risks and IT complexity, prevent ransomware and IP theft, and boost employee…

What is Linode?

Linode helps users simplify cloud infrastructure with Linux virtual machines and tools to develop, deploy, and scale applications. Linode aims to make virtual computing more accessible, affordable, and simple. The vendor states the Linode infrastructure-as-a-service platform is deployed across 11…

Return to navigation

Product Demos

Demo: Nasuni Files for GCP Google Cloud Platform

YouTube

Demo: Cloud Object Storage Integration

YouTube

Nasuni Ransomware Protection Demo

YouTube

Demo: Google Cloud Platform (Part 1 of 3)

YouTube

Whiteboard Session | Azure Files & Nasuni: Considerations for Moving Your Files to the Cloud

YouTube

Demo: Disaster Recovery Requirements and Preparation

YouTube
Return to navigation

Product Details

What is Nasuni?

The Nasuni File Data Platform is a cloud-native suite of services offering user productivity, business continuity, data intelligence, cloud choice, and simplified global infrastructure. The platform and its add-on services replace traditional file infrastructure, including network attached storage (NAS), back-up, and DR, with a cloud-scale solution. By consolidating file data in easily expandable cloud object storage from Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and others, Nasuni aims to become a cloud-native replacement for traditional network attached storage (NAS) and file server infrastructure.

Nasuni Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Return to navigation

Comparisons

View all alternatives
Return to navigation

Reviews and Ratings

(8)

Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Nasuni has proven to be a valuable solution for users looking to address aging file storage infrastructure and manage rapidly growing unstructured file data. According to users, Nasuni's virtual file servers behave like a smart swarm of servers, providing access to the entire dataset from the encrypted cloud backend. This has allowed users to completely solve their file storage challenges. The platform also enables easy collaboration between locations, with new or changed content appearing in just 3-30 seconds. This feature has been particularly beneficial for cross-office and cross-company collaboration, as multiple locations can virtually share the same set of files.

In addition, Nasuni has helped users minimize physical capacity planning and decommission traditional file backup strategies. By eliminating the need for tapes or additional cloud storage capabilities, users have experienced improved efficiency and cost savings. Nasuni's ability to store and analyze large data sets for machine learning algorithms has also been a notable use case for some customers. Furthermore, the platform offers robust disaster recovery capabilities, allowing users to quickly recover critical company files in case of any unforeseen events.

Another key benefit highlighted by users is Nasuni's ability to improve access to files in remote offices, solving previous access issues. This has facilitated global expansion by enabling access to creative workflows internationally. Users have also appreciated the platform's monitoring and tracking features, which allow them to monitor IP traffic entering and leaving the drive, report on types of files by location, and monitor traffic accessing those files.

Overall, Nasuni has demonstrated its value through its various use cases, ranging from solving aging file storage infrastructure challenges to enabling efficient collaboration, minimizing physical capacity planning, improving access to remote files, and providing disaster recovery capabilities.

Efficient File Consolidation: Several users have found Nasuni to be an excellent solution for consolidating their aging file infrastructure. They have been able to access files quickly, back them up in the cloud, and benefit from unlimited versioning.

Seamless Collaboration: Users appreciate that Nasuni is a cloud hybrid global filesystem that supports collaboration among people in the office, across branches, and even mobile workers. Many reviewers mention being able to collaborate on an unlimited amount of files, regardless of size.

Robust Data Protection: Reviewers highlight Nasuni's effective content protection capabilities. They feel confident that their data is safeguarded from loss or encryption and can be quickly restored in case of accidental deletion or on-site disasters.

Difficult file auditing logs: Some users have found the file auditing logs in Nasuni difficult to search through, which can make it challenging to track and analyze changes made to files over time.

High initial capital outlay: Reviewers have mentioned that the initial capital outlay for Nasuni might be high for some users. This could potentially limit the accessibility of the platform for certain organizations or individuals with budget constraints.

Lack of real-time replication technology: Several users have pointed out that Nasuni does not offer real-time replication technology, resulting in a potential delay in file synchronization. This limitation may impact users who require immediate access to up-to-date data across multiple locations.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-2 of 2)
Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this for the whole company. It is an incredible application for data storage and recovery.

It really helps in terms of stability and speed. We offload the majority of our data to the cloud and have a cache of local storage. Nasuni's algorithm determines the most accessed files and pulls those into the cache. Even from the cloud though, most users don't notice much latency.

We create snapshots every 5ish minutes, which makes recovery very quick.
  • Support is amazing.
  • Interface is user friendly and straightforward.
  • Depending on how much cache you're willing to allocate, it's a super slick solution.
  • Better analytics when issues arise.
  • Better onboarding documentation.
  • Real-time monitoring.
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.
File Sharing & Management (6)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
Versioning
100%
10.0
Video files
100%
10.0
Audio files
100%
10.0
Access control
100%
10.0
File search
100%
10.0
Device sync
N/A
N/A
Cloud Storage Security & Administration (2)
50%
5.0
User and role management
100%
10.0
File organization
N/A
N/A
Cloud Storage Platform (3)
93.33333333333334%
9.3
Performance
100%
10.0
Reliability
90%
9.0
Storage Reports
90%
9.0
  • User satisfaction.
  • Satisfaction from the leadership.
  • Huge amount of time saved when restoring files.
I am not sure if we looked into any other cloud storage applications or software. But I do highly recommend Nasuni. If you have feedback, they actually listen. We even got to meet with the founder and he listened to a lot of our feedback. Whether or not they will implement and suggestions, having that listening ear is refreshing.
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.
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.
Shawn Umansky | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use our Nasuni Cloud Storage appliance for 95 percent of our CIFS data, as well as some of our NFS data. This includes roaming profiles, home directories, and network shares. It has addressed our concern regarding storage capacity. If we need more space, we just increase the size of our subscription.
  • 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.
  • I wish there was greater ability to manage the data on the filer. For instance, culling the data for duplicates and cleaning up old data. We currently use a third party tool, which is very slow to run against many Terabytes of data. If this was included in the product from the ground up, I expect it could be much more efficient.
  • This is not the least expensive product on the market. That being said, for what it does, we find it to be a very worth while investment.
It is great for organizations that do not want to be limited to the size of their storage appliance. Since the hardware is used primarily as a cache, there is no cap of the amount of data. Anything beyond the cache size gets stored in the cloud, and Nasuni has advanced logic that ensures the most active data stays in cache, so performance is not impacted.
File Sharing & Management (7)
82.85714285714286%
8.3
Versioning
80%
8.0
Video files
90%
9.0
Audio files
90%
9.0
Document collaboration
80%
8.0
Access control
90%
9.0
File search
70%
7.0
Device sync
80%
8.0
Cloud Storage Security & Administration (3)
80%
8.0
User and role management
90%
9.0
File organization
60%
6.0
Device management
90%
9.0
Cloud Storage Platform (3)
90%
9.0
Performance
100%
10.0
Reliability
90%
9.0
Storage Reports
80%
8.0
  • 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.
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.
Veeam Backup & Replication, Tintri, LANDESK Management Suite, Unidesk, VMware Horizon View, VMware vCenter Server, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager), Microsoft Office 365
Return to navigation