Nasuni vs Qumulo comparison

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Nasuni and Qumulo are both solutions in the NAS category. Nasuni is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.0, while Qumulo is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.0. Nasuni holds a 3.5% mindshare in N, compared to Qumulo’s 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Nasuni users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Qumulo users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 7, 2024

Nasuni and Qumulo are competing products in the data management sector. Data comparisons suggest Nasuni excels in adaptability and scalability, while Qumulo's robust features often tip the scale in its favor.

Features: Nasuni offers cloud-native integration, global file synchronization, and seamless scalability. Qumulo provides real-time analytics, extensive API support, and efficient data transfer speeds.

Room for Improvement: Nasuni could enhance its real-time data processing, API flexibility, and on-premises integration. Qumulo could improve its cloud-native capabilities, ease of use, and data redundancy.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nasuni has a straightforward cloud-based deployment with responsive support. Qumulo offers on-premises and hybrid deployment options with proactive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Nasuni's subscription-based cloud structure promises lower initial costs and long-term ROI. Qumulo requires higher up-front investment with substantial returns through comprehensive data capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

7.2

Nasuni users enjoy cost savings, increased productivity, and efficiency from reduced labor, cloud scalability, and improved data management.

Sentiment score

6.8

Qumulo enhances productivity and user satisfaction by simplifying file management, increasing uptime, and optimizing workloads across industries.

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Qumulo is a revenue competitor with Isilon, NetApp, Ampere Stewart, and PowerScale, so this is HP's purchase to compete with those particular companies.

Esther Sultaana

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

The capabilities for handling high throughput unstructured workloads and executing petabyte-scale migrations are paramount for media and entertainment or healthcare, where they can reduce the burden of long nights spent on migrations.

Esther Sultaana

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

We have seen a return on investment in the reduction of storage administration effort.

SwapnilDaga

Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

8.2

Nasuni's customer service is praised for responsiveness and professionalism, efficiently solving issues with reliable and knowledgeable support.

Sentiment score

8.9

Qumulo customer service is praised for 24/7 availability, responsiveness, expertise in cloud and NAS, and effective issue resolution.

Once I log a ticket, they respond without long waiting times, and an expert is always available to provide end-to-end support.

ShailenderSingh1

Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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These professionals possess deep expertise in cloud deployments and NAS migrations, ensuring that I am speaking with knowledgeable individuals.

Esther Sultaana

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

I rate customer support for Qumulo as excellent, giving it a 10 for its top-tier service in response, resolution, and overall attention to customer needs.

Oscar Ortega

Computing Junior at a media company with 1-10 employees

I would rate Qumulo's tech support as a 9 out of 10.

Naved Siddique

Sr Infrastructure Engineer at American Express

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

Nasuni offers scalable, user-friendly data storage, efficiently meeting diverse organizational needs and supporting physical or virtual deployments.

Sentiment score

7.4

Qumulo is highly scalable, efficient for large data environments, enhancing performance without disruptions, popular in media and healthcare sectors.

I rated the scalability as seven because even though the solution can scale, load balancing must be done manually, as it's not automated.

SwapnilDaga

Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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This linear scale allows for multi-petabyte workloads, which is essential for both media and entertainment as well as healthcare's image management.

Esther Sultaana

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

It is really scalable and easy to use for our end users.

Esther Sultaana

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Scalability is one of the strongest features.

SwapnilDaga

Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.2

Nasuni is praised for its stability, offering reliable performance, minimal maintenance, and flexibility with virtually no downtime issues.

Sentiment score

8.4

Qumulo is highly stable with minor performance issues mainly due to workload management, earning strong user confidence.

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I can confidently say it is highly stable.

Esther Sultaana

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

A lot of performance issues also depend on how the workload is handled.

Naved Siddique

Sr Infrastructure Engineer at American Express

I would rate the stability of Qumulo as a nine.

Esther Sultaana

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Room For Improvement

Nasuni struggles with cloud integration, performance, and user experience, needing improvements in data retention, security, and analytics.

Qumulo users seek automation, API integrations, non-disruptive upgrades, UI enhancements, compatibility fixes, and pricing adjustments for improved performance.

I would improve Nasuni by addressing the performance issues we sometimes face on the base file share, which must be fixed.

ShailenderSingh1

Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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.

SwapnilDaga

Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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It programs very easily. There are REST APIs, and there is a cloud connection.

Esther Sultaana

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Overall, it is a solid tool that works very well on-premises and in cloud environments.

Esther Sultaana

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

If we get into an issue, hardware says, 'Talk to software, Qumulo,' and Qumulo says, 'Talk to Dell.'

Naved Siddique

Sr Infrastructure Engineer at American Express

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Setup Cost

Nasuni offers competitive pricing with flexible cloud compatibility, licensing per terabyte, and cost-effective enterprise solutions.

Enterprise buyers find Qumulo's pricing reasonable, valuing its straightforward licensing, competitive setup costs, and satisfactory vendor assistance.

I prefer solutions with lower pricing.

SwapnilDaga

Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I find Nasuni's pricing to be competitive with other vendors, especially when comparing it with NetApp or EMC.

ShailenderSingh1

Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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The pricing setup cost and everything was the lowest compared to other competitors.

reviewer2871183

System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

The pricing is on the premium side.

SwapnilDaga

Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Pricing is expensive; that was the one thing, but it is an industry standard in the animation industry or film industry.

Aguloy Anonymous

Manager of IT Corporate Software at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

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Valuable Features

Nasuni provides scalable cloud-based file management with global file locking, data security, and efficient disaster recovery features.

Qumulo provides scalable, secure file sharing with real-time analytics, easy management, and seamless integration with cloud platforms.

The snapshot feature is beneficial because it creates a snapshot every five minutes, allowing me to provide restores very easily to customers.

ShailenderSingh1

Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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

SwapnilDaga

Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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The most valuable feature in Qumulo is the scaling feature, as Qumulo file data platform is optimized for scale, so we could support petabytes of data, billions of files, millions of operations, and thousands of users.

Esther Sultaana

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

They are easy to reach, and you can send them a Slack message with Level 3 engineers available to help you within seconds.

reviewer2871183

System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Qumulo has positively impacted my organization by simplifying storage management while providing a single, scalable platform, reducing administrative efforts, making storage growth easier to manage, and allowing users to experience consistent performance.

SwapnilDaga

Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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Categories and Ranking

Nasuni

Ranking in NAS

14th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File System Software (3rd), Cloud Migration (8th), Cloud Storage (14th), Cloud Backup (30th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (20th), Cloud Storage Gateways (4th)

Qumulo

Ranking in NAS

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File and Object Storage (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the NAS category, the mindshare of Nasuni is 3.5%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qumulo is 3.6%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

NAS Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Qumulo	3.6%
Nasuni	3.5%
Other	92.9%

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Featured Reviews

ShailenderSingh1

Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Unified cloud file storage has simplified global data management and reduced operational overhead

From an admin perspective, Nasuni has various valuable features. The GUI is very good, upgrading is very easy, and DFS is very easily manageable. Compared with other products, the snapshot feature is beneficial because it creates a snapshot every five minutes, allowing me to provide restores very easily to customers. Data protection is enhanced by the fact that Nasuni uses S3 technology to create snapshots every five minutes and enables versioning, so the snapshot is created and I can utilize that snapshot for disaster recovery or restore purposes. I assess the value of global file locking and caching for reducing latency as good, giving it a five out of five.

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reviewer2536608

Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

UI has simplified pixel data insights and cost savings while hardware lifecycle still needs work

There is an option I would like to see. Instead of installing a separate Grafana server to get the telemetry data, why can we not set up the same capability in the UI itself? Then we could choose the retention period of the log and get everything inside the Qumulo dashboard itself, rather than installing a separate Grafana server, because we need to maintain a separate server to collect these metrics. There is one more needed improvement I noticed. If you compare Qumulo to Dell Isilon as a vendor, a patch update with Dell Isilon covers the hardware as well. In Qumulo, however, you have to maintain the hardware lifecycle and the software separately. This means every time you update your server, you have to update two entities: one is the hardware and the other is Qumulo. So it might be quite challenging. A great deal of time is also involved for an engineer to do both of these things, so I do not think Qumulo can directly integrate with the hardware so that we can update the Qumulo software together with the hardware patches. Right now, I do not have any other improvements needed for Qumulo that I have not mentioned yet.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Construction Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	26

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

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 needs improvement with Qumulo?

Qumulo can be improved but not necessarily; it was fairly smooth to set up, and the support is great and easy to manage. Regarding Qumulo's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security are ...

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What is your primary use case for Qumulo?

My main use case for Qumulo is asset data storage. When I was working at Mercury Filmworks, we used Qumulo to store our digital assets that artists work on, so people both ways retrieve assets, wor...

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What advice do you have for others considering Qumulo?

I would rate Qumulo a nine on a scale of 1 to 10. I rate it a nine because the cost is what keeps it from being a ten; it is an expensive solution, but if you do have the funds to acquire Qumulo st...

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Overview

Nasuni provides a robust platform for seamless global file storage, offering unified file management, data protection, and cost-effective scalability.

Nasuni's approach integrates a unified file system with high-level security features, ensuring seamless data access and synchronization. Despite its strong capabilities in data replication and storage, Nasuni faces challenges in integration and small file performance. Users appreciate its scalability and cost reduction but call for enhancements in cloud mirroring, automated load balancing, and multi-factor authentication. Better content visibility, mobile access tools, and refined monitoring are desired to enhance user experience. Organizations utilize Nasuni for global file sharing, disaster recovery, and collaborative data management across distributed teams, effectively replacing older systems.

What are Nasuni's Key Features?

Seamless Data Transmission: Enables efficient data flow across locations.
Unified File System: Centralizes file management for ease of access.
Unlimited Storage Capacity: Offers scalable options with global access.
Data Protection: Continuous versioning and ransomware protection.
Single Management Console: Streamlines administrative tasks.

What Benefits Can Users Expect from Nasuni?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces infrastructure expenses by leveraging scalable architecture.
Data Accessibility: Enhances sync and access across multiple sites.
Improved Collaboration: Supports teamwork across dispersed teams.
Confidence in Data Security: Comprehensive encryption and private key management.

Nasuni is adeptly used in industries requiring robust data management such as finance, healthcare, and media, where file synchronization and disaster recovery are critical. Enterprises deploy it to replace outdated file-sharing systems, enhancing workflow efficiency and data reliability.

Nasuni

Qumulo offers an efficient and reliable file-sharing platform with real-time analytics and seamless integration with major cloud services, ensuring ease of use and high IO speed for storage needs.

With its focus on file sharing, real-time analytics, and reliability, Qumulo allows for smooth operations, ease of use, and resilience. It boasts integration with AWS and Google Cloud, providing enhanced functionality with a strong operational cost-to-complexity ratio. Despite requests for software upgrades and better support for certain protocols, it remains a competitive choice for centralized media storage and object-based storage solutions.

What are Qumulo's most important features?

File Sharing: Offers seamless file sharing capabilities.
Reliability: Ensures stable and dependable operations.
Ease of Use: Designed with user-friendly interfaces.
Real-Time Analytics: Provides immediate insights and data analysis.
No Downtime Updates: Supports upgrading without interruptions.
Failover Capability: Allows disaster recovery operations.
Cloud Integration: Compatible with AWS and Google Cloud.

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Enhanced Performance: High IO speed in storage systems.
Cost Efficiency: Benefits from operational cost-to-complexity ratio.
Data Insights: Detailed analytics on processes and usage.
Integration Potential: Easy integration with cloud and backup platforms.

Organizations in marketing and entertainment industries rely on Qumulo for managing files, media storage, and archiving needs. On-premises deployments are common for centralized media storage, facilitating object-based storage for videos, images, and office data support. The solution appeals to solution providers and resellers seeking market presence with application versatility.

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Sample Customers

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

County of Riverside Sheriff Department, Hyundai Mobis Automotive North America, University of Arizona, UCSD - San Diego Supercomputer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Sinclair Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Kaiser Permanente, Deluxe Creative, Vexcel Imaging, University of Florida, The Madison Square Garden Company, Arizona State University, Cinesite, San Diego Padres Baseball, Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine, IHME, EllieMae, Washington State University.

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