Nasuni vs OpenText Migrate comparison

Nasuni and OpenText are both solutions in the Cloud Migration category. Nasuni is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.2, while OpenText is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.0. Nasuni holds a 10.8% mindshare in CM, compared to OpenText’s 6.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Nasuni users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 19, 2025

Nasuni and OpenText Migrate compete in data management, particularly in cloud-based storage and data migration solutions. Nasuni has an edge in pricing and customer support, while OpenText Migrate's comprehensive features make its higher cost justified.

Features: Nasuni provides robust cloud file storage with a focus on scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness. OpenText Migrate emphasizes efficient data migration, seamless integration across environments, and supports complex data interactions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nasuni's straightforward deployment model and dedicated customer service offer ease of integration. OpenText Migrate provides more complex deployment methods, complemented by specialized support for its advanced capabilities.

Pricing and ROI: Nasuni presents more cost-effective pricing with a strong ROI focus through reduced storage expenses. OpenText Migrate, despite being initially more expensive, offers superior ROI with an advanced feature set for comprehensive data management.

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Categories and Ranking

Nasuni

Ranking in Cloud Migration

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File System Software (1st), NAS (7th), Cloud Storage (4th), Cloud Backup (14th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (10th), Cloud Storage Gateways (3rd)

OpenText Migrate

Ranking in Cloud Migration

10th

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Migration Tools (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of Nasuni is 10.8%, down from 12.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Migrate is 6.0%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Barry Sunanan

Senior Architect - Data and Solutions at Wipro Limited

It helped us save 40 to 45 percent on some types of data

It can provide a 360-degree view of your data, depending on how you implement it and whether you're storing your data in Nasuni. However, if you're working with multiple cloud providers, I don't think it's mature enough to provide a 360-degree view of what's in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. I think it can do it, but it's still a lot of scope and range fitting. Given that Nasuni storage is actually cheaper in some areas, it made sense for us to move a lot of our data away from Microsoft. Nasuni gave us more of a 360 view of that particular data type. Other data types are a little different because the company went in a direction where they wanted to store some stuff in an AWS S3 bucket rather than a file storage system. An S3 bucket has its advantages, but if you were to store more of your data in Nasuni, you would get a wider 360-degree view of it rather than on several cloud providers. I have data in AWS, Google, and Azure, and I would like to see a wider view of all the data stored across these three top providers. Currently, I use it for AWS and Azure, but I couldn't use both of them at the same time. I think Nasuni could have better visibility across these different areas. I had to take my data out and then do some analysis to get the costs. 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.

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reviewer1228836

Solutions Architect at Cognizant

Great tool for one-to-one migration, but not suitable for multi-cloud migration

Some of the tools relating to multi-cloud migration need to be improved as they have a very limited capability at this point in time. These tools are suitable for one-to-one migration scenarios but they are not fit for multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments. I would like to point out that I don't have a hands-on very large scale production implementation experience, as that is the job of our infra team. As I mentioned earlier, we find it very difficult to use these tools in a multi-cloud environment but they work well for single-cloud environments — from an on-premise environment to the public cloud. These tools are quite limited, making things much more complex in a multi-cloud environment. They should add a feature that supports multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environment migration properly. The world is going to be very different five years from now, how will they support these kinds of container-based migrations? Currently, infrastructure as code is very limited. It's not as simple as just moving the server or data. The customer wants you to move the entire application, exactly as it is, and then deploy it. From that perspective, these tools offer only part of the solution, they are not fulfilling the holistic need, which the customer or organization needs. As of now, Carbonite Migrate is helpful on an infrastructure level. If we had to move 100 applications across a multi-cloud environment, then this solution would not work. In the cloud-world (the migration part of it) there needs to be better automation. Let me explain: automation refers to your infra, app, and data. Together, these three components combine and automate will provide you to deploy faster on any cloud platform. As of now, this tool doesn’t fit too much into a multi-cloud environment cloud data migrations. Together, these three components combine and automate it allowing you to deploy it. As of now, these tools cannot deploy it into a multi-cloud environment. That's where the challenge is; that's for other tools. We need to see what this product can do in terms of app, data, and infra. It is automated from the infra point of view, but not in regards to the app and data. Other vendors understand this problem and have taken the necessary steps to address it. In short, multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments pose a problem for this solution. I would like to know how I can take the automated path — data, app, and infra all together. That is something they need to enhance. Recently, I have seen a lot of other companies implementing AI-based automation, where more things are taken care of by AI itself, and not people. Many of these migrations are too complex for humans to analyze and form solutions. It is better to use AI platforms to create recommendations and then automate them, that way you can reduce the burden. Currently, the migration time is vast, from six months to one year, it would be impossible to do 100 application migrations. This is very time consuming and needs to be improved.

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Pros

"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."

"I like the unlimited snapshotting."

"The snapshot functionality and the unified file system are definitely the most valuable features for us. The UFS allows everybody across the organization to see the exact same data at the same time, instead of having different file servers with different structures on them, and that's mission-critical. We have different branches throughout our organization that have to act on that data."

"We've used it to provide file source capacity for VDI environments. The security of it is important and the fact that it's object storage, it's immutable and that it can't be held for ransom. It's a lot smoother than our previous processes that weren't Nasuni-based. A lot of it is done automatically just by the system being in place."

"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."

"Its dependability and auditing capabilities are very important to us to be able to maintain a chain of custody of the information."

"It has the ability to do end-user recovery, or a user can simply contact an admin who can perform a recovery from the management console. The versioning has simplified everything. Now we don't have to worry about those components."

"The most valuable feature is that we have redundancy in our data. It's nice to know that it is cached both locally on the filters, as well as stored on that cloud."

More Nasuni pros

"The solution is user-friendly."

"Carbonite Migrate is helpful on an infrastructure level."

"Carbonite Migrate works well in Windows platform migrations and in the case of a VML platform. The migration is smooth in Windows environments."

Cons

"Its interface design or the graphic user interface design can be slightly tweaked in some areas. Some built-in setup wizards would be very beneficial. Rather than having to go in and configure it by hand, there should be more setup wizards for onboarding new data shares and getting it set up the way you want. I don't know if these are on their roadmap, but I sat down and talked to them about some of the work concerns, some of the things that we liked, and some of the things that we didn't like. They are probably working on that."

"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."

"The performance of the filesystem could be improved."

"We forecasted that the data at my client's organization would grow by about ten percent annually, but we are migrating more data because we are bringing in some servers that had not previously been within the scope of our license. We expected it would take us two years to reach a specific amount of data, but we hit that mark in one year. The licensing cost skyrocketed, so we need to renegotiate. It puts us in a bind because we are reliant on Nasuni for our service strategy. We can't deny our customers, but we also struggle to pay for that."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It is difficult to configure Nasuni. Adding a filer is an easy task, but deciding where to add them, how many to add, and what size to add takes a lot of time. I have to analyze my existing storage to understand how many users are going to access which folders. I have to design the Nasuni architecture accordingly."

More Nasuni cons

"Carbonite failed when moving GIS data."

"Migration in RHEL and Linux environments can be improved. During RHEL migration with multiple data areas, you have to create a similar source environment at the destination. This can be challenging because you have to install it, create the VM, install over it, and mount it at the mount point. Only then can you do the migration."

"We find it very difficult to use these tools in a multi-cloud environment"

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They could lower the cost, but it saves so much money when you go into it (by losing all the backup)."

"I would not say it is economically priced, but it is affordable. If you can afford to pay for it, it is worth the money, but it is definitely not overpriced. It is priced about where it needs to be in the market. We were satisfied with the way they did their licensing and how they handled it. I believe they actually license by data size. It is based on how much data is being held on the machine and replicated, and that's completely understandable. So, for us, their pricing was as expected and affordable."

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

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

"The cost of licensing is negotiated and billed annually per terabyte."

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

"Nasuni pricing is average; it's not too high or too low."

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

More Nasuni pricing and cost advice

"In terms of pricing, I think it's an expensive tool."

"The licensing costs are really high."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Construction Company

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Construction Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

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 ...

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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...

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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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Carbonite Migrate?

Carbonite was not cheap.

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What needs improvement with Carbonite Migrate?

Carbonite failed when moving GIS data. Therefore, scalability is an issue as it struggles with migrating heavy data, specifically GIS data.

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What is your primary use case for Carbonite Migrate?

We initially used Carbonite for cloud migration, specifically for moving data from one cloud to another. We moved from a RACS-based environment to VMware.

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Overview

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.

Nasuni

OpenText Migrate provides a robust and efficient way to transition workloads and applications across different environments, ensuring business continuity and seamless operation in complex IT infrastructures.

OpenText Migrate simplifies the process of moving servers and applications, offering an adaptable and efficient platform that minimizes downtime and maintains data integrity during transfers. It caters to varied migrations, whether on-premise, between data centers, or to cloud environments, supporting the rapid pacing of digital transformation.

What are the key features of OpenText Migrate?

Automated Workflows: Streamline migrations with automated processes, reducing manual intervention.
Scalability: Handle large-scale migrations with the ability to scale operations to meet demand.
Data Security: Maintain security protocols to ensure data integrity throughout the migration.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Facilitate migration across different OS and hardware configurations.
Monitoring and Reporting: Gain real-time insights and detailed reports to track migration progress.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Reduced Downtime: Achieve minimal service interruption, ensuring business continuity.
Cost Efficiency: Decrease expenses associated with manual migration efforts and errors.
Improved Performance: Benefit from optimized workloads that enhance operational efficiencies.
Enhanced Security: Protect sensitive data during the migration process, maintaining compliance.

OpenText Migrate implementations are versatile, adept at supporting industries like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing where IT resilience is critical. Its ability to accommodate diverse migration needs allows sectors to maintain productivity and enhance performance with minimal disruption.

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

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