Nasuni
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Does anyone have much experience with Nasuni over several WAN links? I saw over in SW that SAM used to do some consulting for them years ago, maybe you still keep in touch?
We're in the market for a centralized cloud copy provider. We use Autodesk Vault for CAD, so this would be for the 'small stuff', GIS, Office docs, etc... We're leaning between Nasuni and Panzura. Panzura used to be the cheaper option, but with Nasuni's simple Storage as a Service payment model we can very accurately calculate our costs for both implementation and ongoing. They gave us a huge break on our VM appliances so we're really only paying per TB. ($3,750/TB/Year)
Without having any experience with Panzura, it seems wholly complicated and more messy than Nasuni and holds more convoluted costs. We've been trialing Nasuni now for several months. Can anyone speak to what Nasuni does very well and not so well when compared to Panzura?
Thanks!
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@TAHIN said:
Does anyone have much experience with Nasuni over several WAN links? I saw over in SW that SAM used to do some consulting for them years ago, maybe you still keep in touch?
I did but it has been a really long time. They totally abandoned the SMB market to focus on the large enterprise space. Have not really been involved with them since then.
Nasuni is exclusively over WAN links, so that is the only way in which it could be used.
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It seems like they've changed a bunch recently. I think they found a niche, I haven't found anyone that does storage as a service quite like they do. We're 25+ sites with under 15 TB of active data, so we're right on the edge of enterprise SLA requirements and SMB budgets.
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With cloud guys like Amazon offering their own WAN gateways (BTW, MSFT did virtual StorSimple recently) I don't see much of the future in WAN gateways and WAN accelerators. Seems to be built-in functionality of a hypervisor, backup, and could. IMHO.
