Nasuni vs Veeam Backup & Replication comparison

Nasuni

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Nasuni

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 13, 2023

We compared Nasuni and Veeam Backup & Replication across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:

Ease of Deployment: Nasuni's initial setup duration can vary significantly, taking anywhere from a month to two years. Users find Veeam Backup & Replication's initial setup to be generally fast and efficient, with some reporting completion in just a few hours or even as little as 10 minutes.

Features: Nasuni offers efficient storage management, a comprehensive file data view, unlimited storage capacity, continuous file versioning, disaster recovery capabilities, scalability, and security. Veeam Backup & Replication is known for its simplicity, ease of use, replication feature, stability, scalability, and reliability.

Room for Improvement: Nasuni could enhance its platform support, performance, user-friendliness, backend features, training resources, mobile data access, and interface design. Veeam Backup & Replication requires improvements in cost, integration, backup capacity, scalability, performance, troubleshooting, NAS backups, technical depth, and compatibility and integration.

Pricing: Nasuni's setup cost is determined by the amount of data storage needed and includes standard licensing fees. There may be additional expenses for hardware support, software support, and professional services. Opinions on Veeam Backup & Replication's pricing, setup cost, and licensing vary, with some finding it reasonable and affordable and others deeming it costly.

ROI: Nasuni provides a favorable ROI by decreasing expenses and enhancing efficiency, while Veeam offers a budget-friendly option with quick implementation and significant savings in both time and money.

Service and Support: Nasuni's customer service is praised for its promptness, efficiency, and assistance. Users value the accessibility of support beyond regular working hours. Veeam Backup & Replication's support receives varied feedback, with a combination of positive encounters and reports of delayed responses and limited expertise in specific matters.

Comparison Results: When comparing Nasuni and Veeam Backup & Replication, Nasuni provides a diverse initial setup experience, with some users finding it straightforward and others encountering complexity. Nasuni offers greater flexibility and options for data management and storage, while Veeam is commended for its simplicity and ease of use. Nasuni excels in extensive storage capabilities and unlimited storage capacity, whereas Veeam is valued for its user-friendliness and effectiveness in meeting backup and recovery needs. Nasuni presents a more transparent pricing structure, while Veeam is considered costly by certain users. Both products have garnered positive feedback regarding return on investment, but Nasuni's customer service and support are highly regarded, whereas Veeam's support has received mixed ratings.

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Categories and Ranking

Nasuni

Ranking in Cloud Backup

8th

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

8th

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File System Software (1st), NAS (3rd), Cloud Migration (4th), Cloud Storage (3rd), Cloud Storage Gateways (1st)

Veeam Backup & Replication

Ranking in Cloud Backup

1st

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

329

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Nasuni is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veeam Backup & Replication is 14.7%, down from 20.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup

Unique Categories:

File System Software

26.1%

NAS

6.6%

Backup and Recovery

17.5%

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

23.9%

Featured Reviews

Greg Robson

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 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. It lacks some content reporting. Then again, it's doing what it is designed to do. Nasuni provides a management console that lets you do specific functions, and it does those well. However, they haven't tried to include functionality that would be useful to people who want to manage the information at a global level. We have to use another tool for that, but it isn't expensive. We run scripts that take a month or more to complete because we have a lot of data. It's taking us a long time to get more detailed information on what is in there. It would be handy if Nasuni offered built-in features for reporting on data ages and file types.

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Ismail Kücük

IT System Engineer at Hoffmann GmbH

Dec 7, 2023

Robust data protection and management offering user-friendly interface, comprehensive virtual machine backup capabilities and efficient instant recovery

We use it to back up all of our virtual machines, including those on hardware and Hyper-V solutions, and some of our physical machines It allows us to perform instant recovery for SIM machines. This means that we can quickly install the configuration and check whether the machine is operational…

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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

"The most valuable feature is the storage in that it only keeps the last-used data locally, while everything else is backed up to the cloud. That way, we never really have to worry about file space in each office or the replication to the other file servers for DR."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The Nasuni management dashboard is helpful because, on the administration side, I'm able to view all of the different filers that we have in the UK, rather than check each one of them individually."

"The most important feature is that things are backed up automatically in AWS. We have a lot of remote sites where there is a tiny server onsite and, in a lot of cases, we really don't have to back them up because the data is automatically copied to AWS. The cloud replication is the most useful functionality for us."

"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 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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"Provides lots of reporting and visualization of how much data has been transferred."

"Integration with VMware is excellent with very granular recovery."

"Initially setting up the product is easy."

"The features that I have found most valuable are its ease of management, it is not complicated, it is very reliable, has good support and a lot of knowledge on the market for integrators."

"The WAN accelerator feature has been the most valuable for me. That feature reduced the time needed to complete the task from 25 days to less than a week! This is compared with the original tools used: ntbackup, robocopy and Windows Server Backup."

"The most valuable feature is how reliable Veeam Backup is. It has the normal expected features that allow you to ensure that everything is backed up completely."

"The backup and replication features are most valuable."

"A quick-working solution that is very user friendly."

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Cons

"I would like to see improvement in the training Nasuni provides. Compared to some of the other vendors out there, like Microsoft, where you can find how-to videos, Nasuni only has a lot of PDF documents that you have to go hunting for. It's workable, it certainly isn't a problem, but video walkthroughs would always be helpful."

"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."

"One thing to consider is that Nasuni will have the same limitations that a traditional file storage solution will have, although that is because they are taking the place of a traditional architectural model. For example, Office 365 supports collaboration on documents such as Excel files and Word documents, but because Nasuni is a traditional file server, in that sense, it can't make use of that functionality."

"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 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."

"The user-friendliness of its access needs improvement. When I log into the console, I see all the files that we handle globally. There are hundreds of Nasuni files that I can see on the console, but no way that I can filter them down. While this is a small thing, I need to scroll down and select the ones that I want. "Control F" doesn't work nor is there a dropdown menu that I can click on and select the ones that I want."

"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."

"When we first set up our bandwidth limiting, we had a few problems when it came to managing it. This is something that could be made easier; however, we were able to make the changes that we needed to for our environment."

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"Veeam is good up until 300 VMs."

"They need full cloud integration such that an on-premises backup can be offloaded to the cloud for storage."

"I think that Veeam could improve some performance issues when the backup itself is restored. I'm also using HPE StoreOnce, which has deduplication, and when I'm trying to test or run backups, it takes a lot of time. I think they could improve the testing for backup copies."

"In the next release I would like to see a bit more intelligence as far as a solution or troubleshooting - to put it more on the level of resolution and not simply identifying there is a problem."

"The cloud part of it can be improved. There should be an option for Veeam in your own cloud, as compared to the Veeam cloud offering that's currently there. The rest of it is easy."

"I would like to see a storage application in the next version of the product."

"The price is an issue. If one has a large number of servers, say... 100-plus, and wishes to add more, an exhausted budget may hinder this ability."

"The price can be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"There are annual costs that we pay for maintaining all of the snapshot history in the cloud. That is the primary cost that we pay. We occasionally buy newer Nasuni appliances or deploy them to new offices when the need occurs. That capital equipment expenses is less than the cost of buying new file storage systems. For the most part, you are trading a CapEx cost of storage equipment for an OpEx cost for management of all the snapshot data in the cloud."

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

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

"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."

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

"With this solution, the license renewal is pretty swift. With the virtual appliance, you just need to take care of the OS versions and patches. In a way, we don't have to struggle much with renewals because the only thing that we need to take care of are the licenses. We renew it every three years. This aspect goes with infrastructural costs because it doesn't cost us too much to maintain the solution."

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

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"The license subscription could be more straightforward."

"Room for improvement is actually more in the way of licensing. The really good and useful features are in the Enterprise plus edition, and that one is really expensive."

"I would suggest to others that they buy the full license when purchasing this solution."

"The pricing and licensing is better than the competitors, but it could be better."

"The pricing is good and affordable."

"We use the community edition of the Veeam Backup Replication and it is a software-based license. It can be a little expensive."

"We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on Veeam each year, although it is not expensive for what we get."

"We try to use perpetual licensing, and there are no additional costs. They have recently moved to universal licensing, which is more expensive, and I would like them to go back to host licensing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four ...

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How do the backup solutions of Veeam and Veritas compare?

Technically, Veeam is best for hyper-v & VMWare replications, snapshots, HA failover, also support for file system backups inside VMs., support for tape library & FC too. But Veritas Netbac...

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How does Nakivo compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?

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Nasuni

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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.

Veeam Backup & Replication is a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution designed primarily for virtual environments. Veeam Backup & Replication offers a blend of simplicity and efficiency, making it a go-to solution for businesses seeking to protect their data. It supports a wide range of virtual platforms, including VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. According to the reviews, what sets Veeam apart is its ability to provide high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data, and complete visibility.

Veeam Backup & Replication delivers availability for cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a simple-by-design management console, users are offered what is presented as fast, flexible, reliable backup, archival, recovery and replication functionality.

Backup capabilities

Continuous Data Protection
Fast, reliable application-aware, image-based backups
Unlimited capacity and cost savings for long-term data retention on object storage with new Veeam Cloud Tier
Enterprise application support for Veeam Plug-ins for SAP HANA and Oracle RMAN

Replication capabilities

Instant recovery for NAS, Microsoft SQL and Oracle
Recover individual files easily with Instant VM and File-level Recovery
Easy portability and recovery to AWS, Azure and Azure Stack with NEW Veeam Cloud Mobility

Recovery capabilities

Recover individual files with Instant VM and File-level Recovery
Portability and recovery to AWS, Azure and Azure Stack with NEW Veeam Cloud Mobility
Fast, item-level and application recovery for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, and SQL Server and Oracle

Reviews from Real Users

Veeam Backup & Replication is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Some of its major advantages are its ease of set up, the fact that it is agentless, and that it has an intuitive dashboard.

A Network Operations Manager at an educational organization says, "Integration with VMware is excellent with very granular recovery."

An Inside Solutions Architect at a tech services company mentions, “I like that it's agent-less, easy to set up, and hardware-agnostic.”

An Account Manager at a tech services company states, “The dashboard is very, very easy to understand. We do demonstrations all the time with customers just to show them. If they've lost particular files because of a server going down, we can retrieve those files for them and quickly bring those files back up.”

Kerem C., Director of Professional Services/Senior Solution Architect/Trainer at a tech services company, explains, “It's good for backup performance management and backup window management.”

Sample Customers

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

Vodafone, American Standard Brands, Welch’s, University of Florida, Tata Global Beverages Limited, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Hirslanden Private Hospital Group, MacLean-Fogg Company

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