We compared NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Veeam Backup for Office 365 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ideal for hybrid or multi-cloud environments, providing comprehensive data management and integration capabilities. However, it has a complex setup process and is considered expensive. On the other hand, Veeam Backup for Office 365 is praised for its simplicity, stability, and ease of use. It has a straightforward setup and is more affordable. However, it lacks some integration features and may have inconsistent performance. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is better suited for organizations with complex data management needs, while Veeam Backup for Office 365 is a user-friendly option for Office 365 backup.
"The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency."
"In terms of administration, the portal which provides the dashboard view is an excellent tool for operations. It gives you volume divisions, usage rates, which division is using how much data, and more. The operations portal is fantastic for the support team."
"If anything happens, their technical support will come onsite and fix it."
"ONTAP is great for helping you migrate on-premise workflows to cloud environments."
"The Cloud Manager application that's on the NetApp cloud site is easy to use. You can set up and schedule replications from there, so you don't have to go into the ONTAP system. Another feature we've recently started using is the scheduled power off. We started with one client and have been slowly implementing it with others. We can cut costs by not having the VM run all the time. It's only on when it's doing replication, but it powers off after."
"With NetApp, you can integrate malware scanning or malware protection. This is something valuable that is not offered in SaaS solutions typically."
"Unified Manager, System Manager, and Cloud Manager are all GUI-based. It's easy for somebody who has not been exposed to this for years to pick it up and work with it."
"ONTAP has been very stable for us, specifically in the cloud environment. It allows us to have high availability as well as standalone systems if that's what we want within our specific workloads. Also, on-premise has been a very stable environment. We have very few outages and when we do, we work with support to get systems back online in a timely manner."
"I believe the solution is very scalable. We can continuously add mailboxes and sites."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to back up not only to the cloud but also to your local environment so a copy of your data can be kept on-prem."
"The product is easy-to-use."
"The setup is very simple. It takes 15 minutes."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its integration with M365. Its GUI is intuitive and not bad. The granular recovery options for VMs have been useful, though not as crucial as Office 365 integration, which is why we use it. Granular recovery depends on the specific problems our customers face."
"The solution is easy to use and stable and can be made to fit one's needs."
"Veaam technical support, from my perspective, is one of the best technical support I've ever engaged with."
"One of the main features of the solution is it is easy to use."
"I would want more visibility and data analytics where we can see anomalies within the shares within the GUI."
"I would like to see better integration with Active IQ."
"I think the challenge now is more in terms of keeping an air gap. The notion that it is in the cloud, easy to break, etc. The challenge now is mostly about the air gap and how we can protect that in the cloud."
"Some of the licensing is a little kludgy. We just created an HA environment in Azure and their licensing for SVMs per node is a little kludgy. They're working on it right now."
"Scale-up and scale-out could be improved. It would be interesting to have multiple HA pairs on one cluster, for example, or to increase the single instances more, from a performance perspective. It would be good to get more performance out of a single HA pair."
"The solution could be better when we're connecting to our S3 side of the house. Right now, it doesn't see it, and I'm not sure why."
"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."
"How it handles erasure coding. I feel it the improvement should be there. Basically, it should be seamless. You don't want to have an underlying hardware issue or something, then suddenly there's no reads or writes. Luckily, it's at a replication site, so our main production site is still working and writing to it. But, the replication site has stopped right now while we try to bring that node back. Since we implemented in bare-metal, not in appliance, we had to go back to the original vendor. They didn't send it in time, and we had a hardware memory issue. Then, we had a hard disk issue, which brought the node down physically."
"As with all things, the solution can be improved by reducing the cost."
"The solution should have backup integration features, not just concerning mail but also when it comes to such solutions as SharePoint."
"The product cannot back up Active Directory objects while its competitors can. Self-service power enables us to deal with service providers. We provide services for our clients, so having a multi-tenant service portal would be good."
"The solution should provide more integration with Teams and SharePoint Online to perform other tasks."
"We have found that there is a limitation in this solution where it only takes the backup of users who are using Office 365 Enterprise email IDs. We have many users in management and approximately 50 other users who are using Office 365 of which Veeam is able to capture the backup. However, for the other users who are on the local email server at that time, the solution is not able to capture the backup."
"When using Veeam Backup for Office 365 when there is a server that's running, I have to have a hard drive installed on it. For example, if I want to use another storage solution, I can't incorporate it very well. If I want to use SMB or other protocols I cannot use them with the Veeam Backup for Office 365. They have the support in the other Veeam Backup and Restore solutions, but it doesn't support it in this solution. Hopefully, in the future, they figured it out."
"They should improve the backup and restoration time."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 can improve by adding more features with Microsoft teams. We have many files that we are working on with Microsoft teams and there should be more integration and features."
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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 10th in Cloud Backup with 60 reviews while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 58 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 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 Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Safe storage, reliable, and easy to use". 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 Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Cirrus Backup, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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