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Nasuni pros and cons

Vendor: Nasuni

4.4 out of 5

36 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Nasuni offers valuable features like global file locking and rapid site deployment. Its cloud-based storage ensures space efficiency and comprehensive disaster recovery within two hours. Continuous file versioning and unlimited snapshots boost resilience. Eliminating on-premises infrastructure streamlines operations, though replication speed and platform support could improve. The need for better mobile access and cloud integration is noted, as well as more flexible retention policies and enhanced documentation for integrated capabilities.

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PROS

Nasuni's global file locking and quick deployment of new sites are valuable features.

Storage is efficient with only last-used data kept locally and everything else backed up to the cloud.

Disaster recovery capabilities allow for full site recovery in two hours.

Eliminating on-premises infrastructure reduces operational overhead and data center footprint.

Continuous file versioning provides resiliency and recovery from incidents.

CONS

Speed of replication and performance when managing numerous small files require improvement.

Support and integration for more platforms like OneDrive or Box.com is necessary.

Better cloud mirroring and disaster recovery solutions are desired.

More accessible documentation and training materials, especially videos, are requested.

Enhanced monitoring capabilities and integration, particularly with Azure Active Directory, are needed.

Nasuni Pros review quotes

IT Infrastructure Design Lead at Ulteig Engineers, Inc.

Apr 27, 2021

The global file locking feature is valuable. The ability to quickly deploy new sites is also valuable.

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JP

Head Of Information Technology at Invictus

Aug 17, 2021

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.

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Team Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Aug 18, 2021

The most valuable feature is disaster recovery. We can fully recover a site in two hours.

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IT Infrastructure Manager at McLaren Construction Group PLC

Aug 18, 2021

The most valuable feature is the simplicity of the backup and restore functions.

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JJ

IT Manager at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees

Aug 19, 2021

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.

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Technical Director at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 19, 2021

Nasuni has helped to eliminate on-premises infrastructure. We were using about eight to 10 different types of vendors or small storage boxes for provisioning and shared access for users. We got rid of all those. That has eliminated operational overhead and footprint at our data center. We don't have to worry about any hardware or monitoring particular devices, and hundreds of devices have been decommissioned. Now, for provisioning, everything is on Nasuni. I assume this has made a big difference in costs.

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Sr. IT Network Infrastructure Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 19, 2021

Another helpful feature, in addition to restoring a file that was deleted within 24 to 48 hours, is that we have the ability to restore a file or a folder that was deleted, going all the way back to the inception of that file or folder. That means we actually have unlimited backups to the inception point of data with Nasuni.

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reviewer1656057

SA at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 23, 2021

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.

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JM

CIO at Jerde

Aug 24, 2021

I can see who is logging in on files from all over the globe. For example, if a file is locked, maybe a user in Shanghai has locked files or something, I can see that from the Management Console, then unlock the file.

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SM

Managing Director of IT at a construction company with 201-500 employees

Aug 24, 2021

Nasuni offers us a single platform with a 360-degree view of our file data, which is definitely important to us. It simplifies IT operations tremendously. Because it is taking continuous snapshots, it eliminates a lot of work that was done previously when trying to manage backing up and restoring data files.

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Nasuni Cons review quotes

IT Infrastructure Design Lead at Ulteig Engineers, Inc.

Apr 27, 2021

Room for improvement would be the speed of replication of new files. I would also like to see cloud mirroring.

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JP

Head Of Information Technology at Invictus

Aug 17, 2021

The only thing that I'd like to see is more support for platforms like OneDrive or Box.com.

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Team Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Aug 18, 2021

The performance of the filesystem could be improved.

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IT Infrastructure Manager at McLaren Construction Group PLC

Aug 18, 2021

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.

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JJ

IT Manager at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees

Aug 19, 2021

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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Technical Director at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 19, 2021

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.

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Sr. IT Network Infrastructure Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 19, 2021

One area that we've recently spoken to Nasuni about is single sign-on. Another is integrating Nasuni with Azure Active Directory. In our particular case, that would allow for third-party consultants to access our Azure Active Directory environment as opposed to coming to our on-premises environment.

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reviewer1656057

SA at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 23, 2021

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.

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JM

CIO at Jerde

Aug 24, 2021

I would like to see them improve their tools in regards to accessing data using smartphones, tablets, and iPads. I think the Nasuni app could be improved to make access to the data cleaner and more efficient.

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SM

Managing Director of IT at a construction company with 201-500 employees

Aug 24, 2021

I would like to see Nasuni provide the ability to mirror a Nasuni appliance from one site to another. They could maybe have a standby appliance that is mirrored in a different location for disaster recovery purposes. We can recover if data and a Filer are lost because of a possible ransomware event, but even that takes time to recover. If we had the ability to have a mirrored appliance, we could flip over to that mirrored device and resume instantly rather than repopulate the local appliance with data from the snapshot history in the cloud. This is another feature that we would really like to see, if possible.

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