Azure Site Recovery vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

The compared Microsoft and NetApp solutions aren't in the same category. Microsoft is ranked #2 in DRS , with an average rating of 7.9, and holds a 14.3% mindshare in the category. NetApp is ranked #2 in CSDS , with an average rating of 9.3, and holds a 25.4% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Read 64 NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP reviews

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329 Comparison Views

95% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

7.2

Azure Site Recovery is cost-effective, time-saving, and reliable, optimizing virtual machine processes and offering an alternative to secondary data centers.

Sentiment score

6.5

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP delivers cost savings, increased efficiency, and improved performance, reducing storage, maintenance, and power expenses.

Azure Site Recovery, while being pricier than some providers, has a sufficient service level to justify costs.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

Azure Site Recovery is time-saving, and its features allow us to automate processes and save resources.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.4

Microsoft's Azure Site Recovery support is knowledgeable but inconsistent, with mixed reviews on response times and communication efficiency.

Sentiment score

7.0

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP customer service is praised for expertise and responsiveness, with room for improvement in initial support.

Microsoft support could be improved as it rates only a five out of ten, with slow response times and a preference for email over phone communication even in severity B cases.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

During a global outage that affected our operations, there was no apology or in-depth follow-up from Microsoft.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Issues frequently require escalation.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Azure Site Recovery is scalable, excelling in cloud migration and disaster recovery for businesses, despite regional scalability variations.

Sentiment score

7.2

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers scalable growth, dynamic expansion, and flexibility, though large environments face data size limitations.

Scalability is provided because they are offering 99.95% availability.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

I would rate the scalability of Azure Site Recovery as a nine out of ten.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

For scalability, it is fine and easy to set up.

Shashi Jeevan M P

Vice President of Delivery & Deployment at TekFriday Inc

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It wouldn't help with outages either; the scaling is manual, and there are no processes we've used to automate that for unexpected scenarios.

reviewer5948293

Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Azure Site Recovery is highly rated for stability and scalability, frequently scoring between seven and ten by users.

Sentiment score

7.7

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers high stability and reliability, with users valuing performance and responsive support despite occasional minor issues.

The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

I would rate the stability of Azure Site Recovery at eight to nine out of ten.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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Room For Improvement

Azure Site Recovery needs better integration, deployment, stability, security, and support, with improved logging, pricing, and platform compatibility.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP users seek improved scalability, integration, ease of use, and features like security, monitoring, and cloud compatibility.

If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration with other services.

Shashi Jeevan M P

Vice President of Delivery & Deployment at TekFriday Inc

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My opinion is that support is generally very good. There are instances where they take longer to respond or resolve issues, especially when customers have urgent needs, but ultimately, resolution is achieved.

Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

It would be nice to see technology supporting the Elastic Fabric Adapter on Amazon AWS, therefore getting RDMA technology for more low-latency connections.

reviewer5948293

Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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Setup Cost

Azure Site Recovery offers cost-effective DR solutions despite complex billing, with average monthly site-to-site replication costs at $225.

Enterprise users enjoy NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for its features despite higher costs, with discounts available for extended commitments.

It was not the expensive part of our costs.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

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Valuable Features

Azure Site Recovery is praised for seamless failover, ease of use, compatibility, but may be costly for smaller clients.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers reliable, flexible data protection, seamless integration, and optimized storage across diverse cloud environments.

In Azure, we can access the services remotely, and we can do DR drills or these other things with minimal cost and resource allocation.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

Azure provides a 99.99% SLA for their uptime, ensuring that even during outages due to patch releases, there is no data loss, merely hindered accessibility.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

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The granular ability to divide up the performance and the amount of storage you want is really fantastic.

reviewer5948293

Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (2nd), Cloud Storage (3rd), Cloud Backup (27th), Public Cloud Storage Services (13th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

Azure Site Recovery and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Azure Site Recovery is designed for Disaster Recovery as a Service and holds a mindshare of 14.3%, down 21.8% compared to last year.
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Software Defined Storage, holds 25.4% mindshare, down 30.4% since last year.

Disaster Recovery as a Service Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Azure Site Recovery	14.3%
VMware Live Recovery	11.7%
Commvault Cloud	7.8%
Other	66.2%

Disaster Recovery as a Service

Cloud Software Defined Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	25.4%
Portworx Enterprise	27.4%
IBM Spectrum Scale	25.1%
Other	22.099999999999994%

Cloud Software Defined Storage

Featured Reviews

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

Long-term user praises cost savings and reliability of disaster recovery solutions

There is only one thing to note: the agent has to be up-to-date when SCCM or any third-party tools are doing patching activities. If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery. Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer. When you raise a call, they wait too long, and even if you request an engineer to set up a call for severity B cases, they are not ready to communicate over the phone, preferring email instead.

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Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

Offers advanced features with notable emphasis on innovation

The best features of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP include deduplication, compaction, and autonomous ransomware technology that native cloud storage solutions in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud do not support. Moreover, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows the use of multiple protocols including NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI, whereas native options may only support NFS and iSCSI. Customers already using on-premises NetApp storage such as FAS, AFF, or ASA can experience the same functionality on the cloud with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, which adds significant value. For data protection, customers can take advantage of the Snapshot technology available with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. This technology facilitates data recovery by allowing snapshots to be stored either on the same storage or on a disaster recovery (DR) storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP helps us to take snapshots and store them on the same storage, with options for migration or replication of those snapshots to different storage, including on-premises DR storage or other cloud storage, providing excellent disaster recovery capabilities.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	53

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

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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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is actually quite reasonable in price compared to other native cloud storage options. For example, a customer using 100 TB of AWS storage would not benefit from deduplica...

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

It would be nice to see technology supporting the Elastic Fabric Adapter on Amazon AWS, therefore getting RDMA technology for more low-latency connections.

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Comparisons

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

Amazon S3 vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 10% of the time

Amazon FSx vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 9% of the time

Red Hat Ceph Storage vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 7% of the time

Portworx Enterprise vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

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ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Microsoft

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

NetApp

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

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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