NetApp AltaVault Reviews

I use the solution for backup and recovery.

Our systems have become more stable and scalable after using NetApp AltaVault.

We were able to get away from tape for backups. Being able to backup directly to the disk and have it dump directly to the cloud means we're not 24 hours offsite, or 24 hour behind the times, where literally seconds is as fast as it can dedupe to the cloud.

The deduplication engine. Right now, we're at about 10.5 to 11 times deduplication of our backup data. That's really handy because we're only using about 200 terabytes onsite, but we're getting two petabytes worth of deduped expanded data.

My company uses NetApp AltaVault for the functionalities it provides, like file share and home directory share.

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is easy to use and integrate with whichever operating systems you use, providing you with a complete view, especially when you plan to migrate to some other operating system.

We use the product mainly for data archival. For instance, a port we deal with uses it for its video archival. They have a lot of needs around that. They've got to record everything that happens at the port where containers are being loaded from trucks, ships, and back and forth. They have to monitor all that for safety purposes and keep a good amount of retention, unfortunately, due to some accidents that have happened there.

For large data sets, file data sets, file and object data sets for archival is the primary use case that I've seen it used for where we don't necessarily want to keep this on a full-fledged filer. We need to get it down and tear it down, potentially leveraging some cloud buckets as well.

The most valuable features that it has are probably its ability to index things and move them to lower-cost storage.

Its initial setup is easy.

Technical support is good.

The solution scan scale.

The pricing is decent.

It's been able to keep us lean and mean on the storage front. I don't want to be buying many racks of storage just to put in my datacenter, when it's not really providing lots of value. I want to have all the imported data with me, thus being able to lower that storage footprint.

Being able to effectively keep the live data on-premise, or the most recent data on-premise. But I make an affordable solution, where if data is out of a certain time, it goes and leverages all the cheap storage, whether that'll be the storage grid or an S3/S3WS. It's gives me the flexibility of keeping my day to where I want it now. If I need to get the data back really quickly, I put it on the long term retention, being able to access it in the same way.

Most importantly is having that island into that datacenter, and being able to address things in the same console. Thus, it is irrelevant where it's stored.

Simplicity and that it removed a lot of moving parts in our environment. Like I said, we were able to reduce a courier, simplify the whole back up methodology, being able to get some of that data off to the cloud. Luckily, we haven't had to do any restore. We have tested being able to bring that data back but we haven't needed to use it.

That's just a big benefit: Being able to easily use the cloud.

It's pretty simple. Once you set it, it goes; and then the idea of being able to get it to the cloud very quickly. It's kind of a set-it-forget-it.

We were able to get rid of a single courier who was actually taking separate tapes with that database offsite, before we moved to AltaVault. We got rid of that courier; a bunch of tapes. We don't have to deal with a lot of that problem. We just move it onto the AltaVault and it goes out to the cloud.

We have a whole bunch of DR and backup auditing requirements, and this simplifies that process and strips back all the operational overhead of managing tape. With that operational overhead of managing tapes gone, we're able to focus people's time on more important things.

The flexibility. Being able to virtualize it, port it wherever I like, test my backups, test my DR capabilities whenever I like without impacting anybody. We had some problems with physical devices in the past and the virtual appliances mean I can shift it around whenever I like.

We want to archive off-site, because it's cheaper.

We are using end-to-end encryption because we're putting out content in the cloud, so that's really important to us.

We are getting rid of our tape libraries, so this is an alternative to that. We don't have to have 100s and 1000s of tapes.

We are going into the cloud, so this helps us go into the cloud. It also has better security for backup data.