Nasuni vs NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud comparison

Nasuni and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Migration category. Nasuni is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while NetApp is ranked #24. Nasuni holds a 6.2% mindshare in CM, compared to NetApp’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Nasuni users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 17, 2024

Nasuni and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud are two competitive products in cloud storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud stands out for its advanced features and high performance, making it a more compelling choice overall.

Features: Nasuni receives positive feedback for its data protection, scalability, and ease of use. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is praised for its efficient performance, seamless integration with Google Cloud services, and robust feature set.

Room for Improvement: Nasuni users suggest enhancements in performance optimization, more detailed documentation, and overall performance improvements. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud users cite occasional challenges with customer support, seek more competitive pricing, and find it needs customer support improvements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nasuni is noted for its rapid deployment and responsive customer service. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service offers straightforward deployment but receives mixed reviews on customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Nasuni is valued for its cost-effectiveness and quick return on investment. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, although more expensive, is deemed worth the cost due to its advanced capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Nasuni

Ranking in Cloud Migration

8th

Ranking in Cloud Storage

13th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File System Software (2nd), NAS (10th), Cloud Backup (38th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (20th), Cloud Storage Gateways (4th)

NetApp Cloud Volumes Servic...

Ranking in Cloud Migration

24th

Ranking in Cloud Storage

18th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Public Cloud Storage Services (19th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of Nasuni is 6.2%, down from 12.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is 2.0%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Migration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nasuni	6.2%
NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud	2.0%
Other	91.8%

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SwapnilDaga

Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Cloud data management that achieves cost efficiency with advanced data protection features

I am currently using Nasuni for seismic data. We have a huge data size, and we want to reduce costs. Nasuni acts as a caching solution, so we put some data into the cache, and the rest goes to the blob, which helps us save on costs. We use it for applications like Petrol and Tech Log, where 3D…

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Colin Constable

Co-Founder at Atsign

Enables us to fine-tune storage and capacity on the fly as our needs grow or shrink over time

NetApp delivers High Availability. It's critical to our work. That was the main driver for using NetApp. We have a highly resilient service and if you have a highly resilient service, you are only as resilient as the least resilient part of your infrastructure. That's what we were having trouble with our file system before. It was becoming troublesome, so we needed to find something that was much more highly resilient so that's why we moved to NetApp. The complexity of moving large numbers of files to the cloud depends on what you're trying to do. But for us, it was really simple. I imagine for large enterprise customers it is probably pretty tricky. They're probably on all different technologies inside a large corporation and they may or may not have very large pipes going to them. So if you're in a data center to the cloud then it's going to be easy, but if you have hundreds of branches like if you're a bank and have lots of branch banks, they might have very small pipes out to the internet. It might take forever. In our use case everything's brand new files, so it was pretty trivial. We didn't migrate to the cloud, we were already on the cloud, so it was a nonissue for us. NetApp enables us to share data across VMs. It actually reduced the amount of data storage we need. We were having to have storage attached to each VM. And now we can aggregate that storage across multiple VMs, so that actually gave us a net reduction, which was a good thing. We switched from using block storage to file storage to share data between our VMs. It made it easier, frankly but I worry about the scalability in the future. For the moment it made life easier. We were using block and then we moved back to file with NetApp.

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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 solution gives us a breakdown and summary of every resource and each volume within every resource. It tells us the code within a given volume, so I can go in there and look at the size of the files that are stored there. Nasuni gives me the big picture and allows me to connect things like Power BI to any endpoint. I can take that tabular information from Nasuni and look at it in a graph."

"The ability to access anywhere, the ease of deployment, and the security are the most valuable features."

"Nasuni gives us a single platform with a 360-degree view of our data, which is important so that we know the size of our estate and the amount of data that we hold."

"The disaster recovery capabilities are very easy because their virtual appliances are just like OVFs or images. You put in a code and it collects all the configuration from the cloud and then builds up the cache. But that doesn't preclude the device from easily being restored or recovered at short notice."

"My advice to others looking into implementing Nasuni is to go for it; it's very simple to set up, very simple to configure, and easy to manage."

"Nasuni has replaced multiple data silos and toolsets with a single, global file system."

"With a shift to more remote work during this past year, we deployed a new instance of Nasuni in Azure, which allowed us to be more flexible and support remote work better, something we wouldn't have been able to do with legacy file storage."

"Snapshot backup is most valuable. It's quick and easy to use. It's controlled only by an administrator, which is very good. It takes 10 seconds to back up a spreadsheet of three or four megabytes."

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"Overall, they have very impressive technologies."

"High availability is very important to us because we have a production environment. High availability is the highest priority for us to continue keeping our systems running."

"Storage was taking up maybe 10 to 20% of my life at the startup, and now it takes up zero. I was personally running all the infrastructure for the company. Now that we've moved to NetApp, I don't have to worry about making sure it's up and running. It's made my life personally much better."

"It is a good service for high availability that is very easy to configure."

"In terms of its storage snapshot efficiencies, the service is highly efficient. We are only doing things in small batches right now because we have not converted all of the data, but we have tested them in the Google Cloud and they work efficiently."

"Storage was taking up maybe 10 to 20% of my life at the startup, and now it takes up zero."

Cons

"The performance of the filesystem could be improved."

"We would like to have a user desktop agent to help improve the end-user experience."

"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."

"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."

"There have been small shortcomings with support so it isn't perfect, although I don't think that any supplier I have dealt with has support that I would rate a ten out of ten."

"The speed at which new files are created is something that could be improved."

"The performance monitoring could be improved."

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

More Nasuni cons

"I would like for the sales team to get in contact more often and let me know what I should be doing next, what we should be doing about new features."

"It would help if they increased the area in which they employ artificial intelligence, by starting to do assessments on the environments, to project those. They're not using any AI tools, currently, on the administrative side."

"It would help if they increased the area in which they employ artificial intelligence, by starting to do assessments on the environments, to project those."

"The user interface has room for improvement."

"I would like for the sales team to get in contact more often and let me know what I should be doing next, what we should be doing about new features. So it would be nice if I heard a little bit more from him. From a technology perspective, I have no complaints."

"The user interface has room for improvement. We would like this service to be more integrated with Azure, which is very easy to manage and use. It was easy to create volumes and add capacity pools in Azure, but in Google Cloud, we can only create separate volumes. We need more management or configuration options in the user interface."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

"It is around $850 per terabyte per year. Any additional costs that you would incur are for the local caching devices that you'll need to access Nasuni. You kind of provide your own virtual machines or compute to access the data. You also pay for the object storage. So, there are three parts to it. There is the Nasuni license per terabyte. You would also pay for the actual object storage in the cloud, and then you would pay for virtual machines to access the storage."

"It has a license fee as well as hardware costs, which we would incur if we want to use Nasuni Cloud Storage Gateway for upgrades."

"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."

More Nasuni pricing and cost advice

"We don't need so much space, and there is no option to pay as we go or use just what we need. Also, the only way to increase performance is by increasing the level of the service."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	24

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Questions from the Community

Does Nasuni have a good pricing model?

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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?

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Overview

Nasuni provides a robust platform for seamless global file storage, offering unified file management, data protection, and cost-effective scalability.

Nasuni's approach integrates a unified file system with high-level security features, ensuring seamless data access and synchronization. Despite its strong capabilities in data replication and storage, Nasuni faces challenges in integration and small file performance. Users appreciate its scalability and cost reduction but call for enhancements in cloud mirroring, automated load balancing, and multi-factor authentication. Better content visibility, mobile access tools, and refined monitoring are desired to enhance user experience. Organizations utilize Nasuni for global file sharing, disaster recovery, and collaborative data management across distributed teams, effectively replacing older systems.

What are Nasuni's Key Features?

Seamless Data Transmission: Enables efficient data flow across locations.
Unified File System: Centralizes file management for ease of access.
Unlimited Storage Capacity: Offers scalable options with global access.
Data Protection: Continuous versioning and ransomware protection.
Single Management Console: Streamlines administrative tasks.

What Benefits Can Users Expect from Nasuni?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces infrastructure expenses by leveraging scalable architecture.
Data Accessibility: Enhances sync and access across multiple sites.
Improved Collaboration: Supports teamwork across dispersed teams.
Confidence in Data Security: Comprehensive encryption and private key management.

Nasuni is adeptly used in industries requiring robust data management such as finance, healthcare, and media, where file synchronization and disaster recovery are critical. Enterprises deploy it to replace outdated file-sharing systems, enhancing workflow efficiency and data reliability.

Nasuni

NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud provides a managed, high-performance storage solution designed for enterprise workloads and complex data environments, ensuring seamless integration with Google Cloud.

It offers enterprises an efficient way to manage storage needs in Google Cloud, with features focused on high performance, ease of use, and robust data management. This service facilitates quick deployment, reliability, and data protection, allowing organizations to focus on operational efficiency without the complexities of traditional infrastructure.

What are the most important features?

High Performance: Delivers consistent, scalable performance for demanding applications.
Ease of Use: Simplified management and deployment reduce administrative overhead.
Data Protection: Includes built-in snapshots and replication for data integrity and disaster recovery.
Flexible Integration: Seamlessly integrates with Google Cloud services for streamlined workflows.
Scalability: Easily scales with business growth, providing storage on demand.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Cost Efficiency: Optimizes storage costs with automated tiering and flexible pricing models.
Enhanced Productivity: Reduces time spent on storage management, allowing teams to focus on core tasks.
Reliability: Provides a dependable infrastructure with high uptime and data availability.
Agility: Enables rapid adaptation to changing business needs with quick scalability.

In industries like finance and healthcare, NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is implemented to ensure secure data handling and regulatory compliance. Its capabilities in data protection and rapid scaling are particularly valuable in these sectors, where data integrity and fast access are priorities.

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

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