Effortless scale
Nasuni has no volume, directory, or file size limits, so we’re easier to manage and scale.
Fast edge performance
No matter how distributed your data is, access it easily and efficiently.
Comprehensive built-in security
Gain built-in ransomware mitigation, disaster recover, and data backup all in one place.
Why Nasuni
Nasuni is a leader in the hybrid cloud storage category, as defined by IT advisory firm Gartner. The company was founded with the vision of using the cloud to reinvent the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with a more scalable, software-defined platform that could make unstructured file data globally accessible, better protected from growing threats, and more actionable – hence the name Nasuni (short for “NAS Unified”). Today, with nearly 1,000 customers averaging more than 100TB per deployment, the Nasuni File Data Platform has become the standard for enterprises looking to consolidate Dell Isilon, NetApp, and Windows File Server hardware to Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud; replace legacy file backup solutions with automatic, immutable snapshots and up-to-the-minute recovery points; support multi-site collaborative workflows with high-speed file synchronization and caching at the edge; and detect and mitigate ransomware to ensure business continuity.
Nasuni delivers more
Egnyte’s roots are firmly planted in the file sync and share market, with a “NAS adjacent” SaaS solution that competes with Microsoft SharePoint, Box, and Dropbox. It is designed to help small workgroups share files across locations with remote access, offline sync, compliance, and workflow features. It claims 22,000 customers, which, based on the size of the company and its published pricing plans, indicates its average deployment is less than 100 users. This underscores its workgroup focus and proves that – unlike Nasuni – it is not being used as a replacement for Windows File Servers, NetApp, and other enterprise NAS solutions.
Scalability | Nasuni | Egnyte |
| Maximum file size | Unlimited | 25GB |
| Edge caches per office | Unlimited | Max 1 Smart Cache |
| Users per edge cache | 4,500 users | 300 users |
| Auto global file lock | Yes | Only with the desktop client |
| Migration limits | Unlimited | 10TB at a time |
Data security | Nasuni | Egnyte | What it means |
| Snapshots | ✔ | Limited | |
| Backup elimination | ✔ | ✖ | |
| Fast file restores | ✔ | ✖ | |
| Restore scope | ✔ | Limited | |
| Ransomware edge detection | ✔ | Limited | |
| Active Directory (AD) | ✔ | Limited | |
| Encryption | ✔ | ✔ |
Edge performance | Nasuni | Egnyte | What it means |
| Protocols | ✔ | Limited | |
| File locking | ✔ | Limited | |
| File acceleration and propagation | ✔ | ✖ |
File data accessibility and efficiency | Nasuni | Egnyte | What it means |
| In-line data reduction | ✔ | ✖ | |
| Global namespace | ✔ | ✖ |
Microsoft integrations | Nasuni | Egnyte | What it means |
| Microsoft Sentinel | ✔ | ✖ | |
| Microsoft SharePoint | ✔ | ✖ | |
| Microsoft Copilot | ✔ | ✖ | |
| Azure Purview and Microsoft Search | ✔ | ✖ |