Box vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Box and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Storage category. Box is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0, while NetApp is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.8. Box holds a 8.8% mindshare in CS, compared to NetApp’s 15.9% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Box users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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85% willing to recommend

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 17, 2024

Box and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP are both prominent data management platforms. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive functionalities and performance, making it worth the investment for many users.

Features: Box is highly rated for its collaboration tools, seamless integration with various third-party applications, and file-sharing capabilities. On the other hand, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP stands out for its robust data protection, scalability, and high performance. While Box excels in user-friendly features, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers more advanced technical capabilities, catering better to large-scale enterprise needs.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest that Box could improve its customization options, data storage limits, and more granular access controls. For NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, users point out the need for better cost management features, a more intuitive setup process, and addressing cost efficiency and ease of initial deployment.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Box receives positive feedback for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer support. Users find it quick to set up with minimal technical expertise required. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, while offering a more complex deployment, is praised for its comprehensive support and detailed documentation. Box is easier to implement, but NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides better support resources for resolving issues and optimizing use.

Pricing and ROI: Box is generally viewed as affordable with satisfactory ROI, particularly for small to medium-sized businesses. Users appreciate its predictable pricing model. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, although perceived as more expensive, is valued for its long-term ROI due to higher performance and reliability. While Box is cost-effective and user-friendly, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP's higher initial costs are justified by greater enterprise-level benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

Box

Ranking in Cloud Storage

12th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (6th), Digital Asset Management (3rd), Document Management Software (2nd), Content Collaboration Platforms (4th)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Storage

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Backup (10th), Public Cloud Storage Services (5th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of Box is 8.8%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 15.9%, up from 15.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Storage

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Parthasarathy Chellapillai

Program Administrator at Flextronics

Used for data storage and data collaboration, but its data security could be improved

If I have restricted access within an organization by keeping the data in Box, there are other applications through which I can barge into the data. If anyone wants to keep a file restricted to four people, I can access it because it's available in the cloud. I can directly access the file and pull in the data by entering the file's name. Someone from outside the organization can't access it. However, someone from within the organization who is not supposed to access the data can access it, provided it is in Box. Box is almost like a folder structure outside your system. The solution uses the cloud, and you don't need any separate storage in your system. Even if your system crashes down, the data will be saved. Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

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Pramod-Talekar

Sr Service Engineer at Evolent Health

Allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution

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 from the secondary site. Multiprotocol support in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is beneficial because it allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution. This feature eliminates the need to purchase different types of storage.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I like the ease of use."

"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."

"The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."

"The interface is very good."

"The collaboration of the solution is good."

"The most valuable feature of Box is security."

"Box is extremely stable, they have not been hacked or lost any data in the past seventeen years. I am very impressed with it."

"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."

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"Its features help us to have a backup of our volumes using the native technology of NetApp ONTAP. That way, we don't have to invest in other solutions for our backup requirement. Also, it helps us to replicate the data to another geographic location so that helps us to save on the costs of backup products."

"One of the features our customers like is that it can be used from one cloud provider to another. They can use it from Azure to AWS or vice versa. That way, they don't need to use the same provider for backups. If something goes wrong on the primary site, having the same data in another cloud service provider is important."

"This solution has helped us because it is easy to use."

"We're able to use the SnapMirror function and SnapMirror data from our on-prem environment into Azure. That is super-helpful. SnapMirror allows you to take data that exists on one NetApp, on a physical NetApp storage platform, and copy it over to another NetApp storage platform. It's a solid, proven technology, so we don't worry about whether data is getting lost or corrupted during the SnapMirror."

"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are the best thing since sliced bread. Rollback is super easy. It's just simple, and it works. It's very efficient."

"This solution has made everything easier to do."

"If you have a fair amount of experience with NetApp, you can work on it very easily."

"The storage tiering is definitely the most valuable feature... With respect to tiering, the inactive data is pushed to a lower tier where the storage cost is cheap, but the access cost is high."

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Cons

"Data privacy, regarding where to store your data: Offering several transparent(!) options (where to store my data and whether to sync back or not and where to sync) regarding the local law situations (USA, EU, Switzerland!) would increase the credibility of a US based company (after NSA ‘snooping’)."

"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."

"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."

"The price must be lowered."

"The search features and role permissions are not very user friendly. It only searches the first few pages of a document, which is quite a problem."

"Better integration with other solutions is needed."

"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."

"I recommend doing the trial first, because it's not cheap ware. It's not overly expensive, but it's not cheap ware, and enterprise has a minimum number of users."

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"The cost needs improvement."

"The dashboard is a little bit clunky. I like to see it a little bit more on the simplistic side. I would like to be able to create my own widgets and customize what I want to see a little bit more versus what is currently there. That would be helpful so that when I log in, I go straight to my widget or my board without going to multiple places to get to what I need to find or build."

"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."

"Not a perfect ten because it's not very efficient with upgrades and management."

"We've just been dealing with general pre-requisite infrastructure configuration challenges. Once those are out of the way, it is easy."

"I would like to see more information about Cloud Volumes ONTAP using Google Cloud Platform on NetApp's website."

"There is room for improvement with the capacity. There's a very hard limit to how many disks you can have and how much space you can have. That is something they should work to fix, because it's limiting. Right now, the limit is about 360 terabytes or 36 disks."

"The navigation on some of the configuration parameters is a bit cumbersome, making the learning curve on functions somewhat steep."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the free version of the solution. There is a free version and monthly and yearly subscriptions available."

"Better sign a full year's contract to get a discount."

"They are very price competitive when pushed. Initially, they come out with a standard list price, but they are willing to be very competitive. The Box price was pretty much equal to or lower than the Citrix price, and Box has more features."

"Box needs to improve with their pricing in terms of licensing costs."

"Our pricing and licensing is excellent. I'd tell all Higher Ed customers to talk with Internet2 for excellent pricing and support."

"The more you dig, the deeper the level of tools, and the more expensive it becomes."

"I'm in Higher Ed, so we purchase through Internet2-Net+. I absolutely recommend going that route for Higher Ed customers."

"I believe Box is cheaper than SharePoint."

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"In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer."

"They give us a good price for CVO licenses. It is one of the reasons that we went with the product."

"We find the pricing to be favorable due to the educational sector we belong to."

"Overall, the pricing of NetApp is aggressive and the pricing becomes more aggressive as the amount of data increases. The cost for a given volume of data that you are storing becomes lower. The greater the volume of data, the cheaper the license."

"Our licensing costs are folded into the hardware purchases and I have never differentiated between the two."

"The deal with the seller was acceptable; the pricing is reasonable."

"We purchased the product directly from NetApp."

"Once we deploy the pay as you go model, we cannot convert this product as a BYOL model. This is a concern that we have."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

59%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Educational Organization

54%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Box?

The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Box?

The solution is expensive when it comes to API calls.

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What needs improvement with Box?

The price must be lowered.

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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?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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Comparisons

SharePoint vs Box

Compared 18% of the time

Microsoft OneDrive vs Box

Compared 13% of the time

ShareFile vs Box

Compared 11% of the time

Egnyte vs Box

Compared 9% of the time

OpenText Documentum vs Box

Compared 5% of the time

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Amazon S3 vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 13% of the time

Azure NetApp Files vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 13% of the time

Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 11% of the time

Red Hat Ceph Storage vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 11% of the time

IBM Spectrum Scale vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 3% of the time

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ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

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Overview

Box is a Modern Content Management Platform for companies of all sizes and industries. The difference that Box brings is that it offers the security and controls admins need with the sharing and collaboration capabilities end users want. Box has made it easier for people to securely share ideas, collaborate and get work done faster. Today, more than 62,000 businesses, including 59% of the Fortune 500, trust Box to manage content in the cloud.

The Box platform provides HIPAA, FINRA, FedRAMP, and many other compliances to go with granular access permissions and advanced security capabilities.

By using Box you can sync, share, and collaborate on all types of files, anywhere, on any device - but that's just the beginning. You can choose where to store your data, to manage your own encryption keys, and set workflows to automate content-based processes. You can also assign custom metadata tags to content, watermark sensitive content, and set file retention or legal hold policies.

Box has deep, native integrations with Microsoft Office and Outlook, Google Apps for Work, Salesforce, Netsuite, Docusign, Adobe, and many other best-of-breed solutions you may already be using.

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.

Sample Customers

GE, Toyota, P&G, Caterpillar, Flex, Schneider Electric, Sally Beauty, Eurostar, AstraZeneca, AirBnB, Whirlpool, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Nationwide, Aeropostale etc

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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