NetApp StorageGRID vs Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) comparison

NetApp StorageGRID vs. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)

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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

6.6

Pure Storage FlashBlade reduces total cost of ownership by enhancing efficiency, enabling fast restorations, and supporting diverse use cases.

Sentiment score

1.0

NetApp StorageGRID lowers costs by eliminating tape libraries and improving efficiency, offering scalability and revenue-generating opportunities for customers.

Sentiment score

6.9

Nutanix Unified Storage boosts ROI by reducing costs, enhancing uptime, scalability, and efficiency, while improving data management and productivity.

It does not require much management once you set up correctly, so it saves time, allowing an admin to focus on other work.

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Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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For me, the biggest return on investment when using this solution is that we do not have to have much support staff to run it.

Tom Hiles

Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability challenge with previous systems is lessened with Nutanix since we can expand by adding new hardware without needing migrations.

Ryan Salaheddine

Infrastructure Architect & Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

We are saving approximately 20% to 25% compared with the competition.

reviewer2703840

Global of Central Computing IT Operations Head at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.6

Pure Storage FlashBlade's support is generally praised for responsiveness, despite occasional delays and communication issues, maintaining a favorable reputation.

Sentiment score

7.2

NetApp StorageGRID support is efficient but has mixed reviews due to expertise gaps and reliance on self-support in small markets.

Sentiment score

7.5

Nutanix Unified Storage customer service is efficient and knowledgeable, with high satisfaction but room for improvement in complex cases.

I would rate them an eight out of ten.

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The support is done through email and is not that great, making it a very problematic area I've been dealing with for over four years.

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Their technical support has been perfect lately, so I would give it a 10.

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IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

When evaluating the technical support of NetApp StorageGRID, I would give it an eight out of ten.

Sales Director at Proact Estonia AS

I would rate the support for NetApp StorageGRID as eight out of 10.

Sr Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

That's due to the fact that we haven't implemented all the technical support facilities in NetApp.

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Operations manager at ODC-Noord

They come on the call, start troubleshooting immediately, and resolve issues effectively.

Ashish Savaratkar

Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

They are very knowledgeable, and if they can't solve the problem, they find the answer within a day or so.

Shawn Greisen

Manager, System Engineering at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

I would give the customer service and technical support a ten out of ten.

Manuel Heredia

PreSales at IKUSI

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.6

Pure Storage FlashBlade excels in scalability, with seamless expansion, downtime-free growth, and praised support across various sectors.

Sentiment score

7.3

NetApp StorageGRID is commended for seamless, non-disruptive scalability and effective handling of large data volumes in enterprise environments.

Sentiment score

7.8

Nutanix Unified Storage offers scalable, efficient, and stable storage expansion with easy integration and intuitive licensing for diverse environments.

Pure Storage FlashBlade is scalable.

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

There are between 5 and 10,000 people using it in our organization.

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IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

The scalability of NetApp StorageGRID has been proven as we've expanded twice.

Sr Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of NetApp StorageGRID rates an eight or nine out of ten.

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Sales Director at Proact Estonia AS

This means you don't have to buy everything upfront; you can buy what you need and add more as you grow, which is advantageous.

ChrisGeaghan

Sales engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

These three components utilize scalability tools, enabling storage addition to nodes and supporting independent, linear performance growth.

Amarnath Charugundla

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy

I find the scalability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to be excellent, and I would rate it a ten based on my clients' requirements.

SaurabhShukla

Technical Lead at Cognizant

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Pure Storage FlashBlade offers exceptional reliability and impressive stability, featuring 99.999% uptime, seamless upgrades, and high performance.

Sentiment score

8.3

NetApp StorageGRID is valued for its reliable performance, redundancy, and effective support, with stability ratings of eight to nine.

Sentiment score

8.0

Nutanix Unified Storage is stable and reliable, offering smooth upgrades, quick issue resolution, and effective technical support.

In case there is any issue with any blade, the data is moved to another.

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IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

My impression of the stability of NetApp StorageGRID is quite high; from one to ten, I would rate it a nine.

Sales Director at Proact Estonia AS

We experienced very little stability issues.

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Sr Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We have not experienced these issues with Nutanix, which I attribute to the all-flash technology, the quality of their platform, and the responsiveness of the hyper-converged infrastructure.

Ryan Adams

System Administrator II at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very stable.

Ashish Savaratkar

Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

It automatically triggers tasks, causing performance issues.

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Nutanix Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

Users recommend better pricing, cloud integration, support, documentation, and analytics for Pure Storage FlashBlade, improving efficiency and compatibility.

NetApp StorageGRID's interface is complex, integration and pricing need improvement, and marketing and automated management require enhancement.

Nutanix Unified Storage requires upgrades in storage capabilities, ease of use, FTP compatibility, analytics, security, support, and pricing.

Technical support definitely needs significant improvement.

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Its configuration should be easier.

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

One way Pure Storage FlashBlade can be improved is by having more compatibility between the FlashArray and FlashBlade.

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IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

They need to focus on a better upgrade path with easier and more resilient upgrades.

Sr Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

It would be great if it could fix internal issues itself without manual intervention.

Gabriele P

Storage IT Specialist at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

In terms of functionality, reliability, and scalability, we are satisfied with NetApp.

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Operations manager at ODC-Noord

The main concern is pricing, which could deter some customers; addressing this would enhance its appeal.

Mrudula Oruganti

Senior Solution Software Engineer at Gigamon

The system should move towards AI-driven optimization and enhance S3 object storage capabilities.

Sukhwinder-Singh

Corporate Trainer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

System downtime can disturb the entire ecosystem and impact all applications.

Amarnath Charugundla

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy

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Setup Cost

Pure Storage FlashBlade is costly but valued for performance, reliability, and reduced administrative overhead, justifying its premium price.

NetApp StorageGRID is expensive yet cost-effective for large-scale storage, with flexible initial investment and negotiable annual licensing.

Nutanix Unified Storage offers competitive pricing, appreciated for cost-effectiveness, but may be expensive for small businesses or specific regions.

The pricing of Pure Storage FlashBlade is expensive compared to other products I used from other companies in the past, but one benefit is that they have built-in ransomware protection.

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making it good for us.

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IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

I'd rate the pricing eight out of ten.

Sales Director at Proact Estonia AS

It would definitely be more on the expensive side, especially if you compare it with open source solutions like Ceph.

Operations manager at ODC-Noord

From what I understood, it was cheaper than EMC ECS, though this was over seven years ago.

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Sr Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Compared to buying three or four vendor solutions, it is much cheaper.

Tom Hiles

Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The cost has doubled for the same amount of data, which was a challenge when presenting use case justifications for the increased cost.

Ryan Salaheddine

Infrastructure Architect & Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has definitely helped reduce our total cost of ownership.

Nidhi Lnu

Information Technology Managed Services Provider at SCE

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Valuable Features

Pure Storage FlashBlade excels with ease of use, fast performance, scalability, seamless integration, and efficient storage features.

NetApp StorageGRID offers S3 access, rapid backup, deduplication, scalability, management ease, and integration, enhancing usability and data retrieval.

Nutanix Unified Storage offers scalability, efficiency, robust security, seamless cloud integration, and simplifies IT management, enhancing storage reliability.

We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte.

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The best features of Pure Storage FlashBlade include better throughput and better performance.

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Pure Storage FlashBlade's scalability is one of the most valuable features, and importantly, it always works, allowing for seamless upgrades.

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IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

The feature of NetApp StorageGRID that has significantly improved data storage management for my customers is the value of the S3 API because it allows developers who are not infrastructure-oriented to use it and write code against it.

Sales Director at Proact Estonia AS

NetApp StorageGRID is a great alternative to AWS S3 buckets.

Gabriele P

Storage IT Specialist at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

The scalability is very effective for our customers.

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Operations manager at ODC-Noord

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is appreciated for its fault tolerance and redundancy at the cluster level, which ensures reliable storage of files, folders, and other information accessible on the client side.

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Nutanix Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data, such as ransomware threats, provide the ability to detect and back up block-based storage, allowing me to restore repositories or sets of block storage with one button click, which is automatic.

Andrew Essien

Network Engineer at Alabama A & M University

My experience with using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for data-intensive workloads is that we have many SQL Servers and they perform much better than they did when we used hybrid converged previously.

Tom Hiles

Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 5.3%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp StorageGRID is 5.1%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is 2.6%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

File and Object Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)	2.6%
Pure Storage FlashBlade	5.3%
NetApp StorageGRID	5.1%
Other	87.0%

File and Object Storage

Featured Reviews

Has handled backup storage needs reliably and supports seamless upgrades

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

In environments requiring high throughput and low latency, Pure Storage FlashBlade provides high throughput and normal latency, but we do not have any application that requires low latency right now, so the latency of three to five milliseconds is considered kind of high. Pure Storage FlashBlade's ability to integrate with enterprise applications is not important for us, as we only want to present an S3 bucket for our backup, which we have done, and it works very fast. We use the Purity software's data reduction techniques; we have a backup software that compresses everything before sending it to the S3 bucket, achieving a data reduction of 1.1 to one. I would recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade to other companies because it's a very fast and scalable solution for anyone who needs it. On a scale of 1-10, I rate this solution an 8.

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Has reduced storage costs and improved snapshot management for large data workloads

Sr Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The advanced features of NetApp StorageGRID which our upper management wouldn't agree to use, include the S3 feature. We are heavy into AWS, and my thoughts were to develop a small dev environment or even a POC environment on-prem. That's still up in the air as we continue on. Currently, AI has taken over everything with a focus on AI. The upgrades of NetApp StorageGRID present a challenge. It's a rolling upgrade, node by node. At one point, one node would not upgrade. The positive aspect is that it didn't take down the entire environment. The environment remained functional on two different versions. The scalability of NetApp StorageGRID has been proven as we've expanded twice. We started with six or seven nodes and have grown to 15 nodes. It does take time for synchronization to complete. From what I've seen, it took a couple of months for it all to sync up once adding nodes. However, it was transparent. It captured the addition and performed effectively, all happening in the background, steadily and surely.

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Amarnath Charugundla

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy

Unified management and cost-effectiveness lead to positive experiences and future savings

Improvement is necessary wherein the memory or storage should not breach 90%, because if breached, it becomes unmanageable. We have to set alerts or CPU triggering for 95% for the first warning. Other activities on nodes or file systems should be properly maintained. We must monitor the dashboard for P1, P2 alerts in the Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) file share system including SMB, NFS, objects, and blocks. Attention should be maintained for any alerts such as CPU, memory, and RAM alerts, as exceeding these creates issues within teams. If triggered to 95% and forgotten, it crosses the SLA breach, causing disturbances to application, web, and platform teams. Continuous monitoring on the Nutanix dashboard is essential. Even a highly experienced person in Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) cannot provide a 10 rating out of 10 because it is a vast system. I would rate it eight from my perspective.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

Computer Software Company

24%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Educational Organization

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	21

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	27
Midsize Enterprise	30
Large Enterprise	63

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashBlade?

The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power out...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making...

What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?

In my opinion, one way Pure Storage FlashBlade can be improved is by having more compatibility between the FlashArray...

What do you like most about NetApp StorageGRID?

The management portals have most significantly improved our data retrieval times. They've made it much easier to rest...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp StorageGRID?

As an administrator, I was not involved in the pricing of NetApp StorageGRID. From what I understood, it was cheaper ...

What needs improvement with NetApp StorageGRID?

The upgrades of NetApp StorageGRID present challenges. It's a rolling upgrade, node by node. At one point, one node w...

What do you like most about Nutanix Unified Storage?

Nutanix has excellent product documentation available on their portals, written in simple, easy-to-understand language.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Unified Storage?

It is very cost-effective compared to the traditional environment. With new hardware, it's a long-term investment but...

What needs improvement with Nutanix Unified Storage?

To improve Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), cost is always an issue for every company, especially when we talk about la...

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Also Known As

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Storage GRID

Nutanix Files Storage, Nutanix Volumes Block Storage, Nutanix Objects Storage

Overview

FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.

Pure Storage

Store and manage unstructured data at scale using NetApp StorageGRID for secure, durable object storage. Place content in the right location, at the right time, and on the right storage tier, optimizing workflows and reducing overall costs for globally distributed rich media.

NetApp

Nutanix Unified Storage offers seamless scalability and high availability with a user-friendly interface, supporting multi-protocol operations while integrating effortlessly with cloud platforms. It enhances performance and security with features like ransomware protection and advanced data management.

Nutanix Unified Storage streamlines storage management by consolidating infrastructure and optimizing virtualization. It reduces operational complexity and enhances performance across diverse workloads. Despite feedback on integration challenges and suggestions for improving pricing, API capabilities, and security, it remains a key choice for dependable storage solutions. Calls for streamlined implementation and enhanced AI capabilities reflect its potential to better support evolving organizational strategies, driving cost efficiency and data accessibility.

What are the key features of Nutanix Unified Storage?

Intuitive Interface: Simplifies management with easy navigation.
High Availability: Ensures minimal downtime and reliable performance.
Seamless Scalability: Adapts to increasing data requirements effortlessly.
Multi-Protocol Support: Facilitates comprehensive operations across different systems.
Advanced Security: Offers ransomware protection and secure data backup.
Cloud Integration: Allows smooth interaction with cloud platforms.

What benefits and ROI should users evaluate?

Operational Efficiency: Reduced complexity through streamlined management.
Cost Optimization: Achieved via data compression and consolidation.
Enhanced Data Visibility: Improved insights with advanced data lens.
Performance Improvement: Significant uplift in workload handling and database performance.
Scalable Infrastructure: Enables growth and adaptation to changing demands.

In industries, Nutanix Unified Storage is deployed to centralize storage needs, improve database efficiency, and enhance file sharing and security. Organizations use it to consolidate infrastructure, support virtualization, optimize costs, and facilitate virtual machine hosting. It's instrumental in scalable object storage, ransomware protection, integrating legacy systems, and catering to critical applications.

Nutanix

Sample Customers

ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL

ASE, DARZ GmbH

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, Volkswagen SAIC, Brighton and Hove City Council, Foresters Financial, Janus International Group, Cloud Comrade, Serco

NetApp StorageGRID vs. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)