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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Ranking in Cloud Backup
20th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (30th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (16th)
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Ranking in Cloud Backup
10th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
61
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (1st), Public Cloud Storage Services (5th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is 1.0%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Duy AnhMai - PeerSpot reviewer
May 30, 2024
Cloud-based solution enhances company backup but comes with high costs
We are using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for backup purposes in our company AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is convenient because it is cloud-based technology. The strong points are the stability and scalability of the solution, as well as the convenience of it being cloud-based. The cost of…
Pramod-Talekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 10, 2024
Allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution
The solution helps to keep production data The tool's most valuable features are the SnapLock and SnapMirror features. If something goes wrong with the data, we can restore it. This isn't a mirror; we store data in different locations. If there's an issue on the primary site, we can retrieve data…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The strong points are the stability and scalability of the solution, as well as the convenience of it being cloud-based."
"The most valuable aspect of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is its instant block replication feature. This allows us to perform live block verification and eliminates the need to concern ourselves with recovery point objectives. This capability is particularly advantageous for critical workloads."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"We went from an organization with minimal to no disaster recovery. I was able to spin up the disaster recovery environment with AWS rather quickly and meet business requirements."
"For regular backup and restore solutions, this product is fine."
"CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a fairly stable solution."
"It provides our disaster recovery solution. It works fine in our tests.​"
"It's on the cheaper side and not too expensive for users."
"Snapshots are one valuable feature within ONTAP, but CVO's appeal is that it acts just like the on-prem solution. It's the same OS, but in the cloud. We can continue to use ONTAP as we did on-premise."
"The most valuable features are that it's reliable, simple, and performs well."
"NetApp's Cloud Manager automation capabilities are very good because it's REST-API-driven, so we can completely automate everything. It has a good overview if you want to just have a look into your environment as well."
"The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency."
"We are definitely in the process of reducing our footprint on our secondary data center and all those snapshots technically reduce tape backup. That's from the protection perspective, but as far as files, it's much easier to use and manage and it's faster, too."
"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."
"SnapMirror helps mirror metadata and data volumes between endpoints in a data fabric."
"The feature which I like the most is that it has the capabilities that the traditional storage system offers. It provides all the functionality. The deduplication and compression work exactly like ONTAP's traditional storage. So people who have experience with that find it very easy to manage."
 

Cons

"Sometimes a server will get a bit behind. ​"
"The cost of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is seen as expensive."
"The UI could be a little sleeker."
"I have not seen any areas that need improvement at this time."
"The failback could be improved. It should be more intuitive."
"The user interface, customer support, and the recovery time for the current customer query could use improvement."
"The solution's network setup and a lot of the control tower setup could be improved."
"The only thing I would like to see is, they don't have a formal ticketing system. There is no way I can go back and see what questions we had six months back, what issues we had, and how they were resolved."
"When Azure does their maintenance, they do maintenance on one node at a time. With the two nodes of the CVO, it can automatically fail over from one node to the node that is staying up. And when the first node comes back online, it will fail back to the first node. We have had issues with everything failing back 100 percent correctly."
"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."
"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."
"The automated deployment was a bit complex using the public APIs. When we had to deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP on a regular basis using automation, It could be a bit of a challenge."
"We've just been dealing with general pre-requisite infrastructure configuration challenges. Once those are out of the way, it is easy."
"Not a perfect ten because it's not very efficient with upgrades and management."
"I would like to see more information about Cloud Volumes ONTAP using Google Cloud Platform on NetApp's website."
"The only issue we had lately was that outside our VPC we could not reach the virtual IP, the floating IP. I heard that they have fixed that..."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has saved us money from having to buy hardware for disaster recovery."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
"Where the price adds up, there are CloudEndure licenses, then there is the AWS environment, and finally, there is the AWS storage, so cumulatively, it adds up."
"The pricing is better now that they had come out with the Tier 2 which replicates a little less often. In comparison to what I would have been spending with any other type of solution, the pricing is fair."
"CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is charging clients $20 to do the DR backups. It is an expensive solution."
"I feel the product's pricing is a good value. Licensing is pretty straightforward."
"We were happy with the pricing that they gave us."
"They license us on a per machine basis. We have a set number of machines, which we have licensed.​"
"In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer."
"Some flexibility around the licensing model would help. The product is licensed based on capacity. Basically, the largest capacity license that you can buy is 368 terabytes. At this point, NetApp is addressing some people's concerns around this."
"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was good, but it was a test system, not a real purchase."
"The standard pricing is online. Pricing depends. If you're using the PayGo model, then it's just the normal costs on the Microsoft page. If you're using Bring Your Own License, which is what we're doing, then you get with your sales contact at NetApp and start figuring out what price is the best, in the end, for your company."
"The deal with the seller was acceptable; the pricing is reasonable."
"Make sure you investigate what your requirements are going to cost you using the native cloud solutions versus what NetApp is going to cost you, to make sure you have a business case to go with NetApp."
"They give us a good price for CVO licenses. It is one of the reasons that we went with the product."
"They have a very good price which keeps our customers happy."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
12%
Healthcare Company
10%
Educational Organization
53%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a fairly stable solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
The pricing of AWS is considered expensive compared to other options.
What needs improvement with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
The cost of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is seen as expensive.
What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?
So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.
What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP should improve its support.
 

Also Known As

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Agio, Cloud Nation, Limelight Networks
1. Accenture 2. Acer 3. Adidas 4. Aetna 5. AIG 6. Apple 7. Bank of America 8. Barclays 9. Bayer 10. Berkshire Hathaway 11. BNP Paribas 12. Cisco 13. Coca-Cola 14. Comcast 15.ConocoPhillips 16. CVS Health 17. Dell 18. Deutsche Bank 19. eBay 20. Eli Lilly 21. FedEx 22. Ford 23. Freescale Semiconductor 24. General Electric 25. Google 26. Honeywell 27. IBM 28. Intel 29. Intuit 30. JPMorgan Chase 31. Kellogg's 32. KeyCorp 33. Liberty Mutual 34. L'Oréal 35. Mastercard
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