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Nasuni pros and cons

Vendor: Nasuni
4.4 out of 5
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PROS

Nasuni's global file locking and quick deployment of new sites are valuable features.
Storage is efficient with only last-used data kept locally and everything else backed up to the cloud.
Disaster recovery capabilities allow for full site recovery in two hours.
Eliminating on-premises infrastructure reduces operational overhead and data center footprint.
Continuous file versioning provides resiliency and recovery from incidents.

CONS

Speed of replication and performance when managing numerous small files require improvement.
Support and integration for more platforms like OneDrive or Box.com is necessary.
Better cloud mirroring and disaster recovery solutions are desired.
More accessible documentation and training materials, especially videos, are requested.
Enhanced monitoring capabilities and integration, particularly with Azure Active Directory, are needed.
 

Nasuni Pros review quotes

SD
Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 8, 2025
The features I find most valuable in Nasuni are the unlimited snapshots, antivirus capabilities, auditing, and ransomware protection.
Fee Chong - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at RRC POWER & ENERGY, LLC
May 26, 2023
The feature I have found to be most valuable is the revision control of the files. If somebody deletes or accidentally makes a wrong change to files, we can go back to the revision history and restore the previous versions. That is a very good feature that we rely on.
Greg Robson - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner, Collaboration & Productivity at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 28, 2023
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.
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Barry Sunanan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Architect - Data and Solutions at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Feb 7, 2024
The solution gives us a breakdown and summary of every resource and each volume within every resource. It tells us the code within a given volume, so I can go in there and look at the size of the files that are stored there. Nasuni gives me the big picture and allows me to connect things like Power BI to any endpoint. I can take that tabular information from Nasuni and look at it in a graph.
Richard McGregor - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Server & Storage Manager at Conde Nast Publications
Oct 19, 2022
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.
reviewer2080635 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineering Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 22, 2024
I like the unlimited snapshotting.
SH
Technical Lead for Infrastructure Support at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 13, 2024
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.
Shailender-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at HCL Technologies
May 26, 2023
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.
SW
Senior Software Engineer at Outward Inc
Aug 30, 2022
With Nasuni Management Console (NMC), we get a single, centralized view of our entire internal structure and data center structure. This is very important because this caters to remote locations. One of the main care center teams is dependent on this solution. As it is directly connected to customers for the calls that they receive and troubleshoot, they can then help customers out in case they are not able to place an order.
reviewer1873827 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Support Service Lead at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 1, 2022
Nasuni Management Console (NMC) is super valuable, and both physical and virtual filers are also valuable. NMC is the one-stop place for all our filers, both virtual and physical filers. They are definitely doing a great job in housing all our documents and surveillance videos.
 

Nasuni Cons review quotes

SD
Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 8, 2025
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.
Fee Chong - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at RRC POWER & ENERGY, LLC
May 26, 2023
When users from one office save their changes, their peers in another office can see the changes within minutes. Of course, this is an area for constant improvement and we hope that they can still reduce the amount of time it takes to replicate changes.
Greg Robson - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner, Collaboration & Productivity at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 28, 2023
Nasuni provides enough reporting to see what's happening. You can see the number of shares, total volume, issues, conflicts, etc., but it doesn't provide much visibility from a content perspective. For example, it doesn't tell you the data age. When you're trying to sort and filter information, the data creation date is a critical factor. Nasuni doesn't give you that. You can't get a count of all the file types, like the number of PDFs, Word docs, and PPT files.
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Barry Sunanan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Architect - Data and Solutions at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Feb 7, 2024
It would be helpful to have more built-in analytics tools to compare the storage costs between the various cloud providers. I would also like some graphing capabilities. We had a tool called Grafana that we used for graphing. I think some more visual analytics like that would be nice.
Richard McGregor - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Server & Storage Manager at Conde Nast Publications
Oct 19, 2022
The customer portal could be improved, but it has been a while since I've used it. They might already have improved it.
reviewer2080635 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineering Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 22, 2024
There are some issues with multiple users accessing the same file simultaneously. There would be times when the global file would lock when several people tried to access it, so that could be optimized more.
SH
Technical Lead for Infrastructure Support at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 13, 2024
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.
Shailender-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at HCL Technologies
May 26, 2023
The only issue we face with Nasuni is from the performance perspective. Sometimes, when we deploy a Nasuni device, it doesn't meet our requirements. It's a capacity-planning issue.
SW
Senior Software Engineer at Outward Inc
Aug 30, 2022
The Nasuni file storage platform doesn't work well when there are a high number of small files. This is the case when a directory structure contains more than 10,000 or 20,000 small files, e.g., 5 KB, 10 KB, or 15 KB. When the user is accessing these files from another geographical location, they might face a slow response or timeouts when connecting to the shares, and then to the files. This is because the file size is small. There is a scope of improvement with this solution when it comes to accessing a large number of small files.
reviewer1873827 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Support Service Lead at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 1, 2022
There is some room for improvement when it comes to monitoring. We are not using Nasuni monitoring. We are using our own monitoring through Xenos. Nasuni can provide better monitoring capabilities for us to monitor all the filers and NMC so that we don't have to use a third-party tool.