Nasuni and StarWind Storage Appliance compete in the enterprise storage solutions category. Nasuni has the upper hand with its extensive cloud capabilities and global data management features.
Features: Nasuni offers global file locking, continuous file versioning, and unlimited on-demand file storage capacity. It allows data synchronization globally, making it suitable for organizations with distributed teams. StarWind Storage Appliance provides high-speed storage with its all-flash arrays, emphasizing efficiency and simplicity, particularly in on-premises environments. It is noted for its affordability and seamless integration with existing infrastructures.
Room for Improvement: Nasuni could improve its replication speed and platform support. Users have also cited a need for better interface usability and enhanced monitoring. StarWind may benefit from reducing synchronization times and better integration with platforms like VMware. Parity between demo and paid versions would improve user experience.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nasuni supports deployment across hybrid, private, and public clouds, offering flexible solutions for diverse enterprise needs. Some users suggest quicker support response times could enhance the experience. StarWind's focus on on-premises deployment streamlines implementation and enjoys high user ratings for its reliable technical support.
Pricing and ROI: Nasuni employs a per-terabyte pricing model with potential OpEx benefits, offering substantial ROI through efficiency and reduced infrastructure costs, appealing to large enterprises. StarWind's node-based licensing provides cost-effective options for small to medium enterprises, offering immediate savings on on-premises storage solutions.
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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.
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.
For SMB and Enterprises who are looking for high performance primary storage for server virtualization, VDI, database and Big Data scenarios, or inexpensive secondary backup tier, our solution is StarWind Storage Appliance. It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, and associated software into an easily scalable storage platform.
Additionally, the appliance features an optional gateway to Azure public cloud, which helps to implement an effective Disaster Recovery plan or meet regulatory requirements. StarWind SA scales up by adding individual disks and flash modules, or JBODs, while adding ready controller nodes allows scaling out.
StarWind SA targets those, who need high-performance primary storage or secondary storage for backup. In case there is a whole virtualization infrastructure to build from scratch, StarWind HCA will come in handy. Otherwise, if all the required hardware is present, StarWind Virtual SAN will be enough to build a high-performance virtualization setup.
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