We performed a comparison between NetApp Snapshot and Quest QoreStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Fivetran, Dell Technologies and others in Data Replication."It centralizes your data."
"You never have to worry about protecting your virtual machines."
"The solution is fast and it doesn't use any disc space at all. You can also take as many snapshots as you like. These are the solution's most valuable features."
"NetApp Snapshot's most valuable features are the snapshot capabilities, you can take snaps of shared directories, files, and VMs."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the repurposing and backup features."
"The most valuable features of NetApp Snapshot are the integration with other vendors and customization."
"It doesn't occupy a lot of space and is very easy to use once you schedule the snapshots."
"SnapMirror and Snapshot are both very reliable products."
"QoreStor has helped us to reduce our backup storage requirements on-premises. We've been using the same devices for quite a while, and so it lets us keep using them as opposed to having to rip out all that hardware and create a new on-prem solution. The advantage here is even if we had to retire the hardware tomorrow, the QoreStor part doesn't change. We just have to have additional hardware and put the solution back on whatever hardware we pick and it'll do the same thing."
"The dedupe and compression are pretty extreme. On disk, we're getting dedupe rates of up to 65 percent of data and compression of 34 percent. When you go to the cloud, it's more like 76 percent for dedupe and almost 50 percent for compression."
"Data deduplication and replication would be the top two features. The encryption and cloud tiering are also attractive for the future."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature. It saves us a lot of space. When we back up 100 terabytes of data, after dedupe, it only uses maybe five to six terabytes for the disk space in QoreStor."
"It integrates with various backup software solutions, which makes it compatible with existing backup workflows and processes."
"The features we use for the data deduplication are nice because we're able to back up a much larger amount of data, yet it doesn't necessarily take up that much data on the devices."
"The dashboards are in need of improvement."
"The UI is probably their biggest weakness. There are always glitches in the HTML UI."
"The company could update their products more regularly."
"I would like some sort of notification that lets me know when a snapshot is done or not done."
"The solution could include more databases and make it accessible to the DBAs. The automation process should be run in a way where it could be run from the database itself."
"The solution needs to ensure it has higher availability or business continuity."
"Although support is good, the global support is lacking depending on location."
"The price could be a bit lower."
"The management interface is in need of improvement. The graphical user interface (GUI) for the web management tools appears clunky, and not super intuitive."
"The ransomware protection of QoreStor could use improvement."
"In terms of improvement, we would like to have an Air Gap feature to prevent a virus from attaching to something. So that when we don't do a backup, we want the QoreStor to stay offline. It would be a nice feature to have."
"The setup of the software is definitely not the easiest thing. I worked a lot with Quest engineers, especially in the early days when we were first testing it and trying it out. I actually had some of the developers working with us at one point because they were going through these point releases, and I was having trouble getting it to work in this S3-compatible situation. We got it all working eventually, but setup is definitely not the easiest thing in the world."
"The installation could use improvement. The initial installation was a little touchy and it's not really user-installable. You have to have a connection to support to install."
"They need to increase their maximum capacity. Other than that, they're doing a pretty good job."
NetApp Snapshot is ranked 1st in Data Replication with 20 reviews while Quest QoreStor is ranked 20th in Data Replication with 6 reviews. NetApp Snapshot is rated 8.8, while Quest QoreStor is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp Snapshot writes "A highly scalable and mature solution that integrates well with other tools and provides excellent features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest QoreStor writes "Multi-thread backups and snapshotting have eliminated the scheduling issues we had to deal with around backups". NetApp Snapshot is most compared with NetApp SnapMirror, Hitachi Thin Image Advanced, Dell AppSync, DDN DataFlow and Dell RecoverPoint, whereas Quest QoreStor is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce, ExaGrid EX Series and DD Boost.
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