We performed a comparison between NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Veritas NetBackup Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Pure Storage, IBM and others in Cloud Software Defined Storage."They have very good support team who is very helpful. They will help you with every aspect of getting the deployment done."
"It makes sure we have control of the data and that we know what it's being used for. The main thing for us is that we need to know what applications are consuming it and responsible for it. The solution helps us do that."
"It is much easier to control data since we can run queries across all our platforms with just one solution. Not only that, we can also monitor all the platforms with Active IQ, where we can see all the alerts, messages, and space consumption through a single application. This is regardless if the data is on-prem or AWS. It is much more efficient."
"SnapMirror helps mirror metadata and data volumes between endpoints in a data fabric."
"The most valuable features of this solution are SnapShot, FlexClone, and deduplication."
"CVO gives us the ability to access data as quickly as possible, which is critical because of the mission set we handle. Some things cannot wait. For example, we tried having the data in the cloud itself, but it took too long for us to retrieve it from cold or deep storage. If we have it ONTAP or on-prem, it's so much easier to pull it within minutes."
"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are the best thing since sliced bread. Rollback is super easy. It's just simple, and it works. It's very efficient."
"The ability to do a straight SnapMirror from our on-prem to the cloud with no other data transitions is excellent."
"The tool's most valuable feature is recovery."
"The product enables me to recover the information of the appliances in the organization."
"The solution is useful for backups."
"NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is the duplication encryption standard feature."
"It has been our go-to product for backup."
"The NetBackup appliance features customized software that is designed for storage."
"The solution is very stable...The solution is very scalable."
"This is a good backup interconversion solution because all the masters and the targets backups are on the same system. It is easy to administrate for a single point of access for clients."
"One difficulty is that it has no SAP HANA certification. The asset performance restrictions create challenges with the infrastructure underneath: The disks and stuff like that often have lower latencies than SAP HANA itself has to have."
"There is room for improvement in tier one support, especially with potential language barriers and communication challenges."
"The cost needs improvement."
"They definitely need to stay more on top of security vulnerabilities. Our security team is constantly finding Java vulnerabilities and SQL vulnerabilities. Our security team always wants the latest security update, and it takes a while for NetApp to stay up to speed with that. That would be my biggest complaint."
"NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP needs to have customizable pricing options such as 10 TB increments. They seem to have only two options: 10 TB or 250 TB."
"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."
"I would like some more performance matrices to know what it is doing. It has some matrices inherent to the Cloud Volumes ONTAP. But inside Cloud Manager, it would also be nice to see. You can have a little Snapshot, then drill down if you go a little deeper."
"I would like NetApp to come up with an easier setup for the solution."
"It's hard to get to the backups. There are too many tabs."
"It is not easy because I have worked a lot on the tool, and in case it gets corrupted at any point, it is not easy to restore the data without losing information is not easy."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration and security."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance could improve by having a site recovery feature."
"In terms of implementing the solution, it's quite technical. You need to be knowledgable in order to pull off a successful deployment."
"The desirability of appliance solutions is dwindling in the marketplace."
"The NetBackup software is based on Red Hat Linux, but we should have multiple software options for that. We should have more OS options. Also, there are too many tools and intermediaries. Everything should be built into an all-in-one solution."
"They could simplify the process of installing, and provide more space for data during the process."
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 1st in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 60 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 6th in Deduplication Software with 47 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series and HPE StoreOnce.
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