Cohesity Data Cloud vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Cohesity and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Cohesity is ranked #34 with an average rating of 8.7, while NetApp is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.0. Cohesity holds a 0.4% mindshare in CB, compared to NetApp’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Cohesity Data Cloud are competing in the enterprise data management space. NetApp has the upper hand in seamless integration with existing infrastructure, while Cohesity excels in data protection and recovery.

Features: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers seamless hybrid cloud integration, efficient tiering, and robust snapshot capabilities. Cohesity Data Cloud provides comprehensive data management, advanced backup and recovery, and holistic protection. NetApp focuses on hybrid deployments, whereas Cohesity emphasizes data management features.

Room for Improvement: NetApp could enhance its data protection capabilities, streamline user interface, and improve scalability in larger environments. Cohesity might improve hybrid cloud integration, enhance compatibility with third-party tools, and simplify the user experience for non-technical users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers flexible deployment across various cloud platforms and strong hybrid support, making integration easy. Its customer service is noted for responsiveness. Cohesity's appliance-based model simplifies on-premises deployment and comes with accessible support, favoring data center environments.

Pricing and ROI: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP generally provides competitive pricing and potentially faster ROI due to efficient use of resources. Cohesity Data Cloud may have higher initial costs but offers long-term savings through backup efficiency and data consolidation. NetApp appeals to cost-sensitive operations, while Cohesity focuses on long-term value in data management.

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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:

Categories and Ranking

Cohesity Data Cloud

Ranking in Cloud Backup

34th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (40th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (6th)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Backup

9th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Cohesity Data Cloud is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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AmarpreetSingh

Technical Architect at Wipro Limited

Offers improved data protection and security with indirect ROI

The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions. Currently, Cohesity Cloud seems very costly compared to native backups. Although this is an emerging tool and there is room for growth, it needs to mature further. There is an AI feature, however, it is still in the development phase and requires substantial improvements.

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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

"It is easy to install and use."

"I find the most important feature to be data protection."

"It's very regimented and fast. It does local backup, cloud backup, long-term coverage, and disaster recovery."

"The clone feature is very nice. You can restore workloads onto Cohesity's storage, which is also nice to have when you don't have enough space to restore on the server."

"We use Cohesity Helios primarily in our data management strategy for backup and reporting."

"Our data center size occupancy for Cohesity appliance is reduced by 70% when we installed Cohesity."

"The hyper-converged architecture and scalability are hugely important for growing service companies."

"Its big data and archive data features are the features that I have found most valuable. I can use it in a big virtual environment."

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

"There is unified storage, which provides flexibility. It is set up perfectly for performance and provisioning. We are able to monitor everything using a separate application. It provides error and critical warnings that allow us to take immediate action through ONTAP. We are able to manage everything, log a case, and follow up with the support team, who can fix it. That is how it is unified."

"It offers ease of use and a comprehensive suite of applications, including features like SnapMirror, SnapVault, and unified snapshot management, all bundled into a single product."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"With NetApp, you can integrate malware scanning or malware protection. This is something valuable that is not offered in SaaS solutions typically."

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Cons

"The primary drawback is the need to transfer large amounts of data to the cloud via an internet connection, requiring significant bandwidth."

"The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions."

"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."

"The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions."

"The initial setup can be complex, depending on the environment."

"It has never been touted as a tier-one storage platform, and that would be a benefit. They are currently working on solving that issue."

"In terms of functionality, Helios has been effective, but sometimes it doesn't show the exact cluster name for backups."

"Their documentation portal is not up to date for newer releases and I strongly recommend Cohesity to increase their efforts on the documentation portal."

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

"The encryption and deduplication features still have a lot of room for improvement."

"I would like to see better integration with Active IQ."

"We want to be able to add more than six disks in aggregate, but there is a limit of the number of disks in aggregate. In GCP, they provide less by limiting the sixth disk in aggregate. In Azure, the same solution provides 12 disks in an aggregate versus GCP where it is just half that amount. They should bump up the disk in aggregate requirement so we don't have to migrate the aggregate from one to another when the capacities are full."

"We have used technical support. As long as they don't call me at four o'clock in the morning to tell me that a drive failed and they are sending me another one, I like it. They have a tendency to do that."

"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."

"We are getting a warning alert about not being able to connect to Cloud Manager when we log into it. The support has provided links, but this particular issue is not fixed yet."

"I would like to see more aggressive management of the aggregate space. On the Cloud Volumes ONTAP that we use for offsite backup copies, most of the data sits in S3. There are also the EBS volumes on the Cloud Volumes ONTAP itself. Sometimes what happens is that the aggregate size just stays the same. If it allocates 8 terabytes initially, it just stays at 8 terabytes for a long time, even though we're only using 20 percent of that 8 terabytes. NetApp could undersize that more aggressively."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Competing products sometimes use deceptive marketing to make their products seem a lot cheaper. Comparing apples-to-apples, DataPlatform wins out."

"Regarding pricing, it's very costly and I rate it a four."

"It's priced properly for the market."

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

"The solution's pricing is reasonable."

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

"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 AWS consumer-based pricing model makes it easy for developers to use their credit cards to spin up virtual servers immediately."

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

"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."

"I know the licensing is a bit on the high-end. That's when we had to downsize our MetroCluster disks and just migrate to disks that were half used. We migrated into those just to reduce maintenance costs."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

51%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataPlatform?

While Cohesity Data Cloud is more costly in the long term compared to physical tapes, it offers value by meeting compliance needs and providing protection against ransomware attacks. The pricing is...

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What needs improvement with Cohesity Imanis Data?

The primary drawback is the need to transfer large amounts of data to the cloud via an internet connection, requiring significant bandwidth. Reading data from the cloud can incur additional costs, ...

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What is your primary use case for Cohesity Imanis Data?

The primary use case for Cohesity Data Cloud is to offer an additional layer of protection for backup data, which I can restore if needed. It is a managed service that allows me to set up and confi...

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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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Also Known As

Imanis Data, DataPlatform, Cohesity Helios

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Consolidate your backups, file shares, object stores and data for dev/test and analytics on a web-scale data management platform.

Cohesity

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

Navis, 1st Security Bank, Brown University, WestLotto

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