NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Reviews & Insights

Score9.1 out of 10

16 Reviews and Ratings

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Pros

Seamless Cloud Integration: Users have praised the seamless cloud integration of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, with multiple reviewers highlighting this as a major advantage. It allows for easy and efficient data management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud while leveraging the benefits of on-premises infrastructure.

Advanced Data Management Capabilities: The advanced data management capabilities of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP are highly valued by users, with many reviewers expressing their appreciation for these features. Deduplication, compression, thin provisioning, and data tiering help optimize storage efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance overall performance.

Data Availability and Protection: Users find that NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP prioritizes data availability and protection. Numerous reviewers have highlighted the built-in data replication and snapshot capabilities as reliable disaster recovery options that ensure business continuity. The robust backup and restore functionalities also offer peace of mind by securing and making data recoverable.

Reviews

4 Reviews

Free up storage space with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 16, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently only use NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP to offload and store snapshots for disaster recovery. It is used across all of our critical production data across all departments. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows a simple way to offload storage requirements while having another tier of redundancy. We are a pretty small company but have some high-end needs in terms of redundancy and disaster recovery.

Pros

Simplicity
Flexibility
Cost savings

Cons

Additional cloud vendor support
Expanded capabilities
Lower pricing tiers for licensing
Free/included entry tier

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Randy Carpenter

Vice President in Information Technology at First Network Group, Inc. (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

1 year of experience

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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP just works

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 15, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is used by the entire organization to manage storage volumes on AWS. We use NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP to provide a consistent, easy-to-manage, reliable, high-functioning, and scalable storage management solution across our AWS environments including support for the AWS Government Cloud.

Pros

Ease of allocation and management of storage in AWS
Less costly than the native storage management on AWS over 10Tb
Performance and scalability
Easy to setup and configure

Cons

More competitive pricing at lower volumes of storage
Make it possible to manage storage across hybrid and multiple cloud environments

Likelihood to Recommend

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is best suited for larger storage volumes (>10Tb) where increased performance is critical within cloud environments. It provides easy-to-set-up, configure, and manage storage volumes with a familiar management interface if you have ONTAP in your data center storage environments. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP can be a better solution than the native AWS storage management solutions because of the extensive storage management features available based on NetApp's years of expertise.

Bill Floyd

CIO/CTO in Information Technology at Lexipol (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

ONTAP is ON TOP

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 10, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is being used by multiple customers and internal labs. This solution set was introduced as part of our go-to-market strategy for cloud storage as a service. We leveraged the configuration and monitoring aspects of the suite to provide visibility and insight into the storage environments and how they interact with business services. The major problem experienced by us and our customers was lack of insight.

Pros

Dynamic mapping of storage devices--topology mapping
Data tiering--compression and deduplication
Centralized management of all storage components

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP was well suited to begin our journey to cloud storage as a service. The ease and intuitiveness of the product to enable our administrators to design, configure, and deploy the storage in a hybrid cloud environment was instrumental to the success and the early adoption of the service.

Gary Slebrch

Director of Enterprise IT in Corporate at General Dynamics Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP - The easy way to dip your feet into the Cloud

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 27, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is being used to run one of our internal applications and as a tertiary backup location. This product has allowed us to dramatically decrease our hardware footprint which has cut costs in many ways. The product also seamlessly deployed into our preexisting NetApp infrastructure which led to an easy and speedy deployment.

Pros

Integrates into major Cloud vendors.
Integrates with NetApp infrastructure.

Cons

See additional integration with other storage vendors.
Create single pane of view with integrated ONTAP systems.

Likelihood to Recommend

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has been greatly suited for running some lightweight applications our company uses as well as serving as a tertiary target that we mirror off to our Cloud Volumes ONTAP within our Cloud provider. The transfer of data runs very smoothly and consistently which has been tested thoroughly with ingest/egress. I do not believe this product would serve well for our large proprietary applications due to the effort it would take for us to shift workloads to the Cloud at this time.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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