Nasuni vs Quest NetVault Plus comparison

Nasuni and Quest Software are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Nasuni is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.3, while Quest Software is ranked #25 with an average rating of 8.0. Nasuni holds a 1.8% mindshare in DRS, compared to Quest Software’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Nasuni users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

Nasuni and Quest NetVault Plus compete in file storage and backup solutions. Nasuni may have the upper hand due to its unified file system and strong customer service, though Quest NetVault is notable for its web-based management and straightforward recovery.

Features: Nasuni provides global file locking, unlimited file storage, and disaster recovery options, facilitating site deployment and seamless file restoration. Continuous file versioning offers security against data loss. Quest NetVault Plus offers snapshot backup functionality, robust database support for MSSQL and Oracle, and a simplified backup and recovery process through its web-based interface.

Room for Improvement: Nasuni users highlight the need for faster file replication, enhanced monitoring tools, and improved mobile access. Suggestions also include better integration and data migration features. Quest NetVault users express a desire for improved restore granularity, enhanced command-line features, and better report generation. Deduplication performance and expanded database support are also areas for improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nasuni's deployment options include Hybrid, Private, and Public Cloud, alongside On-premises. Customers commend its quick response and cloud deployment expertise. Quest NetVault Plus predominantly offers On-premises deployments, with customer service rated highly, though it lacks the expansive cloud support expertise of Nasuni.

Pricing and ROI: Nasuni typically charges per terabyte annually, with added costs for cloud platforms and caching devices, offering cost efficiency through reduced hardware costs and improved productivity. Users report significant ROI. Quest NetVault Plus provides flexible capacity or component-based licensing, perceived as affordable, yet possibly limiting for larger cloud strategies. Both products demonstrate ROI, but Nasuni often shows greater cost-effectiveness in hybrid environments.

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Categories and Ranking

Nasuni

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

10th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File System Software (1st), NAS (6th), Cloud Migration (3rd), Cloud Storage (5th), Cloud Backup (15th), Cloud Storage Gateways (2nd)

Quest NetVault Plus

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

25th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (41st)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Nasuni is 1.8%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Quest NetVault Plus is 1.0%, up from 0.7% 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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Isa Safii

Senior System Engineer at PT. Virtus Technology Indonesia

Comprehensive data protection and reliable backup capabilities enable smooth disaster recovery operations

The features of Quest NetVault Plus ( /products/quest-netvault-plus-reviews ) that are most valuable include the ability to pick up and restore to tape servers and external hard disks. It allows us to pick up from devices and then restore to the same devices or external server storage. Additionally, the application supports scanning files for malware before backup operations.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I like the unlimited snapshotting."

"The nice thing about Nasuni storage is that it is immutable. This means the data is only written once. So, you never modify the files. When you write a file out to the storage, it doesn't modify it when you change it. The technology knows how to figure out what the difference is between the original file write and what the changes are. Therefore, it only saves the changes."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"We like Nasuni's snapshot technology. The snapshot and recovery features are the things we use most frequently. Ideally, I would recommend NFS or CFS, which gives you more benefits for clients or anyone who wants to access FTP protocol, FTP utilities, SAN, and MSS."

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"The initial setup is straightforward. It's not that complicated. Deployment took maybe about 15 minutes."

"If a job is pending, the solution communicates it to us through emails."

"Having the web-based interface is important to us because we can access it from any computer in the network, rather than having it installed and available for use only on a specific one."

"It has File and SQL backup, which is the main benefit for us."

"The user interface is good."

"The platform helps us with efficient QoreStor deduplication (DD) capabilities and configuration."

"The solution allows us to block off our network and only give access to whatever we want."

"Quest NetVault Plus has a high level of stability."

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Cons

"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."

"Nasuni could improve cloud integration and documentation of various ways we can leverage the product. It integrates with Azure, but the native Azure File Sync solution lets you divide data into tiers like hot, cool, and archived. Nasuni doesn't allow you to break the data apart into those tiered categories."

"When we have to rebuild a filer or put a new one at a site, one of the things that I would like to be able to do is just repoint the data from Azure to it. As it is now, you need to copy it using a method like Robocopy."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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"I would like to see the option of cloud-based management."

"Improvements could be made in the deduplication and data management capabilities. There is also a need for better security measures, as security is critical to ensure backups are safe and free from malware."

"The storage capacity is very low."

"There are command-line limitations. There is not a very strong possibility to work with the command line. The commands that are there are not that powerful, and you need to be very good at scripting, for example, in PowerShell or in Bash in case it is running on Linux systems. You need to combine a lot of commands together, and still, you will not get a great output that is presentable to others. You cannot work with it as easily."

"In the next version, I would like to see support for the MongoDB database. As it is now, there is no component that works with it and we cannot back the data up using NetVault."

"The stability of the solution is poor."

"The product’s SQL backup plugin needs improvement."

"The interface can be improved. It should be more clear what features are available and make them easy to find."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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"The price of our 12-month contract is approximately $1,500 AUD ($1,100 USD)."

"When we purchased four licenses, we were given a very good price. However, it is still on the high side when compared to some other vendors."

"The tool is expensive."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing 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 do you like most about Quest NetVault?

NetVault is a great cloud-ready enterprise backup software for hybrid data centers. Here are some of the things I really like about the solution: It is easy to use right out of the box and scales ...

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What needs improvement with Quest NetVault?

There's always scope for improvement with any backup software we discuss, whether it's Quest NetVault Plus or Backup Exec, and I don't think any software is 100% foolproof or satisfactory. Improvem...

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What is your primary use case for Quest NetVault?

We have customers in the pharma industry. Our customers' main use cases for this backup are file system backup and different databases such as MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, and bare metal recovery.

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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

Quest NetVault Plus is used by organizations for efficient backup in environments such as retail machines, VMware, and virtual servers, including Hyper-V. It supports hybrid environments with Nutanix Xi.

Quest NetVault Plus is designed for backing up databases, applications, and security logs in hybrid environments. It includes a universal backup system with deduplication and allows data path mapping. Users install a client agent on PCs and a server agent for recovery tasks. Commonly used in industries like pharma, Quest NetVault Plus offers a web interface for network-wide access, dashboards for visualization, and reliable stability and reporting features. While appreciated for its backup management and efficient search capabilities, users desire improvements in its web interface and compatibility.

What are the key features of Quest NetVault Plus?

Efficient Search: Quickly locate tables and databases in backups.
Time-Saving Restoration: Speeds up recovery tasks.
Streamlined Management: Manage backups across different locations easily.
User-Friendly Interface: Offers network-wide access via an intuitive web interface.
Comprehensive Dashboard: Provides clear visibility of backup processes.

What benefits should organizations expect from Quest NetVault Plus?

Stability and Reporting: Reliable backup operations with built-in reporting tools.
Media Utilization: Optimize backup media usage for cost efficiency.
Capacity Planning: Plan for storage needs with detailed reports.
Communication: Stay informed with email notifications on backup status.

In industries like pharma, Quest NetVault Plus is implemented by configuring agents on clients and servers for effective backup and recovery. Its adaptability in hybrid setups with Nutanix Xi enhances server backup management, while its dashboard and reporting capabilities assist in monitoring and optimizing backup workflows across sectors.

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

intel, Mars, MERK, Microsoft, Uber, Visa

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