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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 15, 2024

Nasuni and BDRSuite Backup & Replication compete in the data management and backup segment. Nasuni appears to have the upper hand with its scalability and disaster recovery solutions, which are particularly attractive to enterprises dealing with large data sets.

Features: Nasuni provides a unified file system and global file lock, which facilitate seamless data access and collaboration across various locations. It also offers continuous file versioning for efficient data recovery and disaster management. Its extensive scalability is ideal for businesses with significant data needs. BDRSuite emphasizes comprehensive backup functionalities, including support for SQL, Hyper-V, and VMware environments. It offers application-aware backups, making it suitable for diverse infrastructure setups. The user-friendly interface and simple configuration add to its appeal.

Room for Improvement: Nasuni could enhance its training materials and improve synchronization across platforms, specifically to optimize data access speed globally. Its monitoring and reporting capabilities also require more robust data insights. BDRSuite could benefit from faster support response times and a more intuitive user interface. Improvements in backup performance and overall software reliability would elevate its appeal. Additionally, expanding customer support beyond standard business hours would improve the onboarding experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nasuni offers deployment flexibility across public, private, and hybrid clouds, alongside on-premises environments. Its customer service is noted for its effective management of storage needs, though it might be impacted by time zone differences. BDRSuite focuses on on-premises solutions with hybrid cloud options, suited to organizations familiar with such infrastructures. Its customer service is operational but may experience delays with urgent issues. Nasuni's wider deployment options cater to cloud-integrative operations, whereas BDRSuite delivers reliable support for localized or smaller setups.

Pricing and ROI: Nasuni's pricing is driven by data volume, combining licensing and cloud storage fees to reduce infrastructure costs. This model proves cost-effective for enterprises aiming to cut capital expenditure. BDRSuite's competitive and flexible licensing is tailored for businesses of various sizes, presenting an attractive option for budget-conscious firms. However, it might not match Nasuni's integration and scalability. Despite both offering good ROI, Nasuni is particularly advantageous for large enterprises with substantial data requirements.

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BDRSuite Backup & Replication vs. Nasuni

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Categories and Ranking

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (12th), MSP Backup (1st)

Nasuni

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

9th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File System Software (1st), NAS (6th), Cloud Migration (4th), Cloud Storage (3rd), Cloud Backup (14th), Cloud Storage Gateways (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is 1.6%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nasuni is 1.8%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

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Redha Benlaksira

Technical Sales Director (Owner) at HSR IT Services SARL

The ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it lets customers choose to restore their data to an hour or a day ago

BDRSuite is better than competing solutions because it can protect, back up, and recover data. A feature called live migration allows you to recover the same data in different environments. For example, I can back up the data from a VMware machine and restore it to a Hyper-V. You can also create repositories and back up environments to a cloud platform like GCP and AWS S3 buckets. BDRSuite allows you to back up virtual machines hosted on an EC3 instance or Microsoft 365 mailboxes, SharePoint, etc. The solution allows us to recover data instantly. We can recover all our data in under 15 minutes. In a virtual environment, we can recover a virtual machine and all its data in under 15 minutes. It's the same for a NAS, SAN, or DAS disk. The ability to boot instantly enables customers to maintain their business operations without interruption. BDRSuite's ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it gives customers the option to restore their data to an hour or a day ago. They can choose a full, incremental, or synthetic backup. Incremental backup makes sense if you are backing up the same data daily and you want to save space and network resources. It only backs up the differences or updates in every block. I've worked with lots of backup solutions, and BDRSuite is the easiest to use. It's simple to install and create backup jobs. It doesn't require many tasks to install the solution. You can easily back up and restore from one console

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Richard McGregor

Global Server & Storage Manager at Conde Nast Publications

Removes a lot of infrastructure, allows us to restore files instantly, and is simple to work with

I particularly like the restore process. Our financial teams make changes to spreadsheets and other files, and we've got teams using Photoshop files. They make mistakes and need to recover files, and we can do that instantly. We also have users who manage to delete folders, and we can bring them back instantly within a few seconds. Knowing that it's all protected from ransomware is also a very big advantage at the moment with the number of ransomware attacks that you see out there. Nasuni is being very protective of that, which is quite good to hear. There were times when we had to replace the filers we've had issues with, and because we know all our data is protected in AWS, we could just turn them off and spin them up. As quickly as in an hour or so, we were back working with zero downtime. That area of functionality is really good. In terms of ease of management, it's the easiest one you can use. It's very simple. It's very easy to set up, very easy to configure, and very easy to manage.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"There is an option to back up a specific folder from a specific source, not the whole virtual machine."

"The product is very reliable and works well out of the box; many of our customers are buying it."

"The main difference I see between Vembu and the other solutions we've tried is that with Vembu, you don't need anybody to tell you what to do. Once you have done the installation you just look at the user interface — it's very friendly — and you can do things yourself without resorting to help from anybody."

"Valuable features include Snapshots and the constant backup for SQL, application services, and Active Directory."

"Adding and removing backup jobs using BDRSuite is easy and also includes great documentation."

"It suits our needs, is versatile, and the functionality is there."

"BDRSuite is better than competing solutions because it can protect, back up, and recover data. A feature called live migration allows you to recover the same data in different environments. For example, I can back up the data from a VMware machine and restore it to a Hyper-V."

"The agentless backups are the big selling point on this, as well as being able to send out across sites so that I can do a restore at either of our two locations."

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"Nasuni is tremendously easy to manage. It eliminates many of the administrative challenges associated with physical hardware storage, and you don't need to worry about any hardware failure or products reaching the end of their lives."

"The most valuable feature is the storage in that it only keeps the last-used data locally, while everything else is backed up to the cloud. That way, we never really have to worry about file space in each office or the replication to the other file servers for DR."

"Nasuni has the capability of taking a snapshot every five minutes. If a user has accidentally deleted their data, we can recover it from the snapshot and provide the latest data to the user. It's a really great feature, one that is not provided by other vendors."

"We have less downtime and fewer trouble tickets from users who cannot access their shared files. Nasuni has reduced the friction and noise associated with file management because the devices are more reliable."

"The global file locking feature is valuable. The ability to quickly deploy new sites is also valuable."

"Continuous File Versioning is one of the best features because it helps you to restore at any point in time. That means you don't have to worry about a ransomware attack. Even if that attack happens, you can restore all the data to five minutes ago and save everything."

"One of Nasuni's best characteristics is its fully redundant system; we don't have to shift tapes or use other backup solutions. It's a good, full-featured product."

"The features I find most valuable in Nasuni are the unlimited snapshots, antivirus capabilities, auditing, and ransomware protection."

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Cons

"BDRSuite could improve support for XenApp Citrix Backup."

"We do a lot of internal automation, so the Vembu API definitely has some gaps. The Vembu API could definitely use some improvement. We do rely a lot on automation outside of just the regular interface. We've noticed that the Vembu GUI is good, but we do leverage the APIs for a lot of stuff, and there's definitely some room for improvement there."

"I don't know if it exists, but it would be helpful to get email notifications when there are issues with the backup. I'm sure it probably exists, but I just don't know how to do it. They also have an Azure proxy feature where you can restore to Azure. It's not really well documented. I think they should document how to do that a little better."

"Vembu's website doesn't clearly state that their software is designed for tape libraries, not standalone drives."

"I suggest that the dump of the database have the option to either be backed up to Vembu Cloud or be backed up to all backup sites and not only to default storage."

"We had a lot of problems getting it configured in the first place. They also wanted us to allow them remote access to our machines without us watching what they're doing, which is a huge security risk for us. We said we couldn't do that, and they said they don't offer any phone support whatsoever."

"It is not a well-known software. People do not know about Vembu."

"There was one issue though with the hardware IDs. When I went to a different version of Hyper-V, the hardware IDs weren't restored and the machine got two new IDs. The preliminary unique IDs weren't restored, so I had to reactivate programs."

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"Nasuni does not support different retention policies within the same volume, so you have to keep creating volumes for retention policies. When you create a new volume, it means you're starting from zero all over again. You can't move data between two volumes. You have to move them from your physical device to Nasuni or your cloud device to Nasuni."

"We've had some organizational changes that Nasuni has not been able to keep up with, mainly from a data or file system perspective. Moving a filer from one management console has been a challenge. It lacks the flexibility to move files in and out of the management console. We have six management consoles now, and we're constantly telling Nasuni, "Hey, please allow us to move a filer from management console A to B." They can't do that."

"The user-friendliness of its access needs improvement. When I log into the console, I see all the files that we handle globally. There are hundreds of Nasuni files that I can see on the console, but no way that I can filter them down. While this is a small thing, I need to scroll down and select the ones that I want. "Control F" doesn't work nor is there a dropdown menu that I can click on and select the ones that I want."

"Nasuni recently implemented a health system for filers. However, it needs better visibility because it lacks data and an explanation, or reasoning as to why a particular filer may be unhealthy."

"As administrators, we are used to having control equal to managing an on-prem device. In terms of log analysis and other things we want to do, Nasuni has some limitations limitation on what you do on the Nasuni. Nasuni could add some features to the GUI that make administration a little easier. It's tough when I have to move from one filter to another because there is no way to search it. We have to scroll up and down to find the name of it."

"I suggest Nasuni improve their syslog forwarders to support TCP protocol, as it's more secure than UDP, which is plain text and not protected at all."

"Migration from existing systems, specifically StorSimple, could be improved, but that solution will be end-of-life by the end of the year. Also, the documentation could be more accessible."

"We would like to have a user desktop agent to help improve the end-user experience."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is fair enough. What was not clear enough in the documentation on the website was that that you're licensing per CPU socket and you are only licensing on the restore sockets, not the backup sockets. It's a bit technical, but it was very well explained during the demonstration that we had during the evaluation period."

"The price for BDRSuite is justified."

"We are saving $6,000 every three years versus having another product."

"When they changed to the newest version (4.1), they have more VMs allowed on the free version. Before, there were only three VMs allowed on the free version, and if you needed to back up more than three VMs, you had to get the paid version. Now, you can have up to 10 VMs on the free version."

"BDRSuite, although cost-efficient, is more expensive than most other providers."

"The pricing is good. The tough part is estimating storage needs."

"This solution provides much more value than other products that provide similar functionality. If price is a consideration for anyone who is looking to improve their backup processes, they owe it to themselves to look at the Vembu BDRSuite."

"It's just the license per host with one CPU, but if I did choose offsite cloud replication, they do charge for the data. They charge per gigabyte, or something like that. They have plans."

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"It is around $850 per terabyte per year. Any additional costs that you would incur are for the local caching devices that you'll need to access Nasuni. You kind of provide your own virtual machines or compute to access the data. You also pay for the object storage. So, there are three parts to it. There is the Nasuni license per terabyte. You would also pay for the actual object storage in the cloud, and then you would pay for virtual machines to access the storage."

"It's cheaper than a lot of alternatives but it's not cheap."

"Nasuni should provide small-scale licenses, like a 20 TB license. Currently, the smallest is a 30 TB license."

"It has a license fee as well as hardware costs, which we would incur if we want to use Nasuni Cloud Storage Gateway for upgrades."

"The pricing is on par with everybody else, and fair."

"The pricing is fair. It's an enterprise-level solution so it's not inexpensive... The cost is pretty stable year over year."

"The cost is based on the capacity, which is approximately $100 USD per terabyte."

"There are cheaper forms of storage, but Nasuni is fairly priced for the functionality it offers. I can get basic file shares provisioned in Azure and pay for the storage and the CPU. The overall cost would be much less than Nasuni, but I would need to build the management console and encryption process, so it would cost a lot to develop that kind of functionality."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

87%

Retailer

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Construction Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BDRSuite?

The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BDRSuite?

BDRSuite is cost-effective because you can purchase a perpetual license that covers multiple environments. You only renew the support costs annually. It offers advanced features at roughly 75 perce...

What needs improvement with BDRSuite?

I had a small problem integrating VMware and Hyper-V when customers used a free VMware license to create VMs. This is a problem because many customers use the free version of VMware. There are also...

Does Nasuni have a good pricing model?

Based on the experience of my organization, Nasuni is definitely worth the money, since it gives you an all-in-one solution where you'd usually need several programs. About the cost, there isn't a ...

Is it easy to restore files with Nasuni?

As someone who has used this feature of Nasuni I can tell you - yes, it's good for file recovery and you'll definitely benefit from very quick times. I can't tell you if it's the best one because I...

What features and services does Nasuni offer?

Hi, if you pick Nasuni, you'll be benefiting from many services for a good price. Well, it's a personalized price you get after an agreement with the company but in my organization's case, it is a ...

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Overview

BDRSuite by Vembu offers comprehensive and cost-effective Backup and Disaster Recovery software tailored to meet the diverse data protection requirements of Businesses and Service Providers. BDRSuite provides robust backup solutions for a wide range of IT workloads, including virtual machines, servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud VMs, NAS/File Shares, and databases & applications. It offers the flexibility to store backups anywhere and centrally manage the entire backup infrastructure.

BDRSuite is designed to help businesses keep their data secure and ensure it is easily recoverable in the event of data loss or ransomware attacks. With BDRSuite, businesses can achieve reliable data protection and ensure business continuity – all at an affordable price.

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PRICING DETAILS

VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup at $48 per workload/year (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, oVirt, Proxmox, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, File Share-500 GB)

Endpoint/Workstation Backup at $12 per endpoint/year (Windows, Linux, Mac)

SaaS Backup at $12 per user/year (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace)

DBs & Applications Backup at $72 per application/year (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server)

Vembu Technologies

Nasuni is a file data services enterprise focused on assisting firms with their digital transformation, global expansion, and information awareness. The Nasuni File Data Platform is a suite of cloud-based services designed to enhance user productivity, ensure business continuity, provide data intelligence, offer cloud options, and simplify global infrastructure. This platform and its auxiliary services are projected to replace conventional file infrastructure such as network attached storage (NAS), backup, and Disaster Recovery (DR), with an expandable cloud-scale solution. By storing file data in scalable cloud object storage from multiple providers, Nasuni positions itself as a cloud-native alternative for traditional NAS and file server infrastructure. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Nasuni serves sectors like manufacturing, construction, technology, oil and gas, financial services, and public sector worldwide, offering its services in more than 70 countries.

Reviews from Real Users

James J., IT Manager at a marketing services firm, says Nasuni’s management dashboard is helpful because he's able to view all of the different filers at once rather than check each one of them individually. He values the software’s security, reliability, good performance, helpful alerting, and responsive support.

According to a Server Engineering Services Lead at a mining and metals company, Nasuni offers good OR and DR capabilities, performs well, offers data security, and continuous file versioning helps recover from hardware failures.

The Managing Director of IT at a construction company appreciates Nasuni because it eliminates a lot of work that was previously done when managing backing up and restoring data files.

Sample Customers

NASA, Intel, CISCO, PHILIPS, Atos, HEXAWARE, Motorola

American Standard, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, E*TRADE, Ithaca Energy, McLaren Construction, Morton Salt, Movado, Urban Outfitters, Western Digital