We compared NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and N-able Cove Data Protection across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: The setup process for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is more complex and requires careful planning and documentation. However, it offers extensive integration capabilities with on-premises and cloud environments, along with valuable features like AI-driven data analysis and data replication across cloud providers. On the other hand, N-able Cove Data Protection is praised for its user-friendly interface, reliability, and efficient backup and restore capabilities. It also provides cloud-based data protection and cost savings. However, it lacks advanced features and customization options compared to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
"The most valuable aspect is the added protection of having a cloud-based backup service. It provides redundancy in case of data loss."
"One of the bigger features and advantages of the solution is that it is easy to integrate with my RMM which is also N-able."
"The product is simple to use and manage. The customers have access to verify the backups."
"The monitoring makes it very easy to check whether a backup has gone bad."
"The ability to back up, restore, and do different types of testing for the preventative maintenance has really increased our importance to these clients because they see the value in how fast we can get them back up and running. We're saving them money in that way."
"The most valuables feature is the alerts and monitoring that catches the failed backups."
"The most valuable feature by far is the Virtual Disaster Recovery. On top of that is the bare-metal recovery. The recovery options that we have are great. We have tested the Virtual Disaster Recovery and the bare-metal recovery in just about any scenario you can think of. We have even restored bare metal, a full server, to a laptop, and had full functionality. It's just insane how well it works and how simple it is. It does most of the work for you."
"It provides a single dashboard for all types of data protection, we monitor everything through a single dashboard. It simplifies everything overall. It allows us to see everything, whether passing or failing any issues, any problems through a single pane of glass that we don't have to click through or adjust as we go forward."
"NetApp's XCP Migration Tool... was pretty awesome. It replicated the data faster than any other tool that I've seen. That was a big help."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it makes our data readily available and we don't have to go through a lot of trouble to access it."
"One of the most valuable features is its similarity to the physical app, which makes it familiar. It's almost identical to a real NetApp, which means you can run all of the associated NetApp processes and services with it. Otherwise, we would definitely have to deploy some hardware on a site somewhere, which could be a challenge in terms of CapEx."
"The feature which I like the most is that it has the capabilities that the traditional storage system offers. It provides all the functionality. The deduplication and compression work exactly like ONTAP's traditional storage. So people who have experience with that find it very easy to manage."
"SnapMirror helps mirror metadata and data volumes between endpoints in a data fabric."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of file storage."
"We're using snapshots as well and it's a pretty useful feature. That is one of the main NetApp benefits. Knowing how to use snapshots in the on-prem environment, using snapshots on the cloud solution was natural for us."
"We are definitely in the process of reducing our footprint on our secondary data center and all those snapshots technically reduce tape backup. That's from the protection perspective, but as far as files, it's much easier to use and manage and it's faster, too."
"The only area that needs improvement is that it is a little bit difficult when you get into virtual machines. The initial deployment of Cove is a little tedious, not for standard machines, but when you get into specialty stuff, like Hyper-V."
"N-able Cove Data Protection for Microsoft 365 is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."
"A feature I'd like to see would be a more customizable admin console."
"There could be a possibility to create a local NAS backup for infrastructure."
"Having the licensing available for partners to be able to take advantage of testing without paying would make a big difference."
"A disaster recovery console would be an improvement for the product."
"An area for improvement that would really work out well would be if there were a little bit more of an elegant handshake relationship between SolarWinds RMM and the PCs that are being backed up, to advise regarding "up" status... Since RMM is an agent that feeds back that a machine is alive and on, I don't see any reason why they can't either tap into that one feature or build the same exact polling within the backup agent, to update right away and say the system is online or offline."
"We would like to have better reporting."
"Cloud Volumes ONTAP's interface could use an overhaul. Sometimes you have to dig around in Cloud Manager a little bit to find certain things. The layout could be more intuitive."
"When it comes to support provided by NetApp, they have room for improvement. Every time we go through their support, we end up answering the same routine questions."
"I rate the scalability a five out of ten."
"We would like to have support for high availability in multi-regions."
"I would like NetApp to come up with an easier setup for the solution."
"The navigation on some of the configuration parameters is a bit cumbersome, making the learning curve on functions somewhat steep."
"When Azure does their maintenance, they do maintenance on one node at a time. With the two nodes of the CVO, it can automatically fail over from one node to the node that is staying up. And when the first node comes back online, it will fail back to the first node. We have had issues with everything failing back 100 percent correctly."
"The data tiering needs improvement. E.g., moving hard data to faster disks."
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N-able Cove Data Protection is ranked 8th in Cloud Backup with 20 reviews while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 11th in Cloud Backup with 60 reviews. N-able Cove Data Protection is rated 9.0, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of N-able Cove Data Protection writes "Provides feature flexibility and modularity for our customers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". N-able Cove Data Protection is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and MSP360 Backup, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Portworx Enterprise and Google Cloud Storage. See our N-able Cove Data Protection vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP report.
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