Kaminario K2 (discontinued) vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Kaminario K2 was an on-premise flash array storage. Silk updated its brand and focus to reflect the move of customers to the cloud. The former Kaminario K2 product is no longer available.	N/A
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	Score 9.1 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	NetApp's Cloud Volumes ONTAP combines data control with enterprise-class storage features for various use cases, including file shares and block-level storage serving NAS and SAN protocols (NFS, SMB / CIFS, and iSCSI), Disaster Recovery (DR), Backup and Archive, DevOps, Databases (SQL, Oracle, NoSQL), or any other enterprise workload.	$0.64 Hourly

Pricing

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Editions & Modules

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Explore: $0.64
Hourly
Standard: $1.68
Hourly
Premium: $2.71
Hourly
Bring Your Own License (BYOL): Purchased from NetApp

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

User Ratings
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Likelihood to Recommend	K2 works well in our mixed-use virtual environment. I would not hesitate to place any workload on K2, it has always performed well. We use fiber-channel connectivity as it replaced our large legacy storage array, replacing one rack of spinning disks with 4U of flash. Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	It is well suited to store lower-tier data in the cloud to free up space on primary storage. For our use, it is really only currently viable for things like snapshots and backups. Other organizations may find it useful for secondary-tier archival storage as well. At this point, I don't really trust any cloud solution as primary storage for anything. This may change in the future, but for backups and such, it is a nice option. Incentivized Randy Carpenter Vice President Read full review
Pros	Great performance Great support Super-simple to use Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	Integrates into major Cloud vendors. Integrates with NetApp infrastructure. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Not well known, so third-party support is lacking Data reduction is good, but not as good as expected (actual 2.7:1) Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	Tighter integration with third-party (non-storage) monitoring tools CMDB classifications break down when integrating with ServiceNow Migrating storage workloads from one cloud service provider to another Incentivized Gary Slebrch Director of Enterprise IT Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Haven't had to use it. Incentivized Randy Carpenter Vice President Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We performed a bake-off with K2 and one other vendor and they performed identically. K2 pricing was aggressive, performance was great, and it offered the features that we needed at a price that we could afford Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	ScienceLogic SL1 and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) were the closest competitors to meeting our business objectives. Tivoli Storage Manager was not able to meet the initial requirements. There was a significant overlap of capabilities between ScienceLogic SL1, SolarWinds SRM, and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. The latter provided a more positive and cohesive experience for our administrators and executives. Incentivized Gary Slebrch Director of Enterprise IT Read full review
Return on Investment	Installing K2 reduced runtime of one of our batch processes, freeing up one employee for other tasks. Less time managing storage. Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	Increased costs at lower data volumes but better pricing by 20% over 10Tb Easier to manage storage volumes with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Better performance with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Incentivized Bill Floyd CIO/CTO Read full review
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