Nasuni: Best in class for cloud storage
Pros
- The management console is extremely simple and easy to navigate, making common tasks easy to do.
- Our storage appliance is configured to snapshot data several times an hour, making the risk of data loss very low.
- Data restores are very intuitive, and take seconds to initiate regardless of whether it is one file or 300GB of data. We have successfully restored many Gigs of data in minutes.
Cons
- I wish there was greater ability to manage the data on the filer. For instance, culling the data for duplicates and cleaning up old data. We currently use a third party tool, which is very slow to run against many Terabytes of data. If this was included in the product from the ground up, I expect it could be much more efficient.
- This is not the least expensive product on the market. That being said, for what it does, we find it to be a very worth while investment.
Return on Investment
- Dramatically reduced time spent managing our storage platform. Quotas and reporting tools take all the guesswork out of data growth. Updates are easy to deploy. Time freed up can be used for more user-facing activities that we consider more valuable to the organization.
- The overall stability of the platform has been very good. We have been running on the same hardware for the past four years without any performance issues.
Alternatives Considered
StorSimple
Other Software Used
Veeam Backup & Replication, Tintri, LANDesk Management Suite, Unidesk, VMware Horizon View, VMware vCenter Server, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager), Microsoft Office 365