NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Quorum OnQ comparison

NetApp and Quorum are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. NetApp is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.0, while Quorum is ranked #33 with an average rating of 8.3. NetApp holds a 0.6% mindshare in CB, compared to Quorum’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Quorum users who would recommend it.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Quorum OnQ compete in the data management and disaster recovery market. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has the upper hand in cloud integration and cost-saving features, while Quorum OnQ is noted for its rapid recovery capabilities.

Features: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers SnapMirror and SnapVault for data backup, high availability, and cloud integration. Its cost-saving functionalities include deduplication and data compression. Quorum OnQ emphasizes rapid recovery with automated testing and a robust system against ransomware, simplifying disaster and file recovery.

Room for Improvement: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP could enhance navigation, multilingual support, SAP HANA certification, and asset performance monitoring. Quorum OnQ would benefit from broader platform support, especially for Linux, and a more refined user interface to compete with other solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP supports flexible deployment across different cloud models, despite mixed technical support reviews. Quorum OnQ primarily offers on-premises deployment, with customer service praised for quick responses, although it lacks cloud flexibility.

Pricing and ROI: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides a scalable pricing structure aligned with its features, acknowledged for cost efficiency despite higher costs. Quorum OnQ is considered initially pricier but offers value through its disaster recovery solutions and bundled support, seen as competitive in its pricing structure.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

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)

Quorum OnQ

Ranking in Cloud Backup

33rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (46th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (23rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Quorum OnQ is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Mohamed Iqbal

Presales Information Technology Consultant at JBA

A stable and economical solution that provides quick disaster recovery

The most valuable feature of Quorum OnQ is quick recovery. We call it a single-click recovery. If any server goes down, crashes, or experiences downtime, we can bring up the DR (Disaster Recovery) server in just two minutes. We also have a "Single Pane of Glass," wherein we work with only a single window. You don't have to use multiple windows to perform basic tasks like failover or failback.

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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

"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."

"For us, the value comes from the solution's flexibility, speed, and hopefully cost savings in the long term."

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

"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."

"Lastly, the API and web services are fairly good. That is an important feature too. We write some code to do different things. We have code that runs to make sure that everything is being backed up as we say it is and we try to also detect places where we may have missed a backup."

"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."

"The ability to see things going back and forth has been quite useful."

"The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency."

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"It is a very scalable solution."

"The change in the way that Quorum processes data has made a tremendous improvement in backup and replication times. While the familiar interface remains, the underpinnings have been finely tuned and the speed is incredible. My large Exchange Server went from 5- to 6-hour backups down to 22 minutes."

"It is a stable solution."

"The biggest feature is being able to do a file recovery to the original server. That is extremely useful and has saved us a few times when we've had ransomware. In some of those cases, people's computers were locked down by viruses which spread to things they had access to, including server shares. But we were easily able to just restore to four hours prior, instead of a day or two or more ago."

"The most valuable feature is spinning up a ready-to-go VM in a test or production environment that is based on a backup stored on the Quorum device."

"Quorum OnQ provides an elevated ability to filter on everything from people's location to age to their voting history."

"Quorum OnQ has a good ransomware protection feature, and customer service and support were very good."

"Quorum OnQ has taken the guesswork out of backup/recovery and disaster recovery."

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Cons

"Some of the licensing is a little kludgy. We just created an HA environment in Azure and their licensing for SVMs per node is a little kludgy. They're working on it right now."

"I think the challenge now is more in terms of keeping an air gap. The notion that it is in the cloud, easy to break, etc. The challenge now is mostly about the air gap and how we can protect that in the cloud."

"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."

"NetApp's support could improve"

"It definitely needs improvement with respect to clustering and with respect to more collaborative integrations with Azure. Right now, we have very limited functionalities with Azure, except for storage. If CVO could be integrated with Azure that would help. When there is any sort of maintenance happening in the cloud, it disrupts the service in Cloud Volumes ONTAP."

"I rate the scalability a five out of ten."

"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."

"One difficulty is that it has no SAP HANA certification. The asset performance restrictions create challenges with the infrastructure underneath: The disks and stuff like that often have lower latencies than SAP HANA itself has to have."

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"Quorum OnQ can be improved by providing support for other operating systems like Ubuntu."

"Lacks compatibility in terms of supporting other OS."

"I paid for subscription of Firewall. I paid for subscription of endpoint protection. Thet should introduce single subscription for all services."

"One thing that could be done to improve it would be a single pane of glass for doing disaster recovery testing, where I could have remote consoles in one place... I still have to go to each location in a browser and then bring up the console. I'd like to see them integrate that into a single pane of glass so I don't have to go to each server."

"Quorum OnQ's user interface is not very attractive and should be made more attractive."

"I don't love the scheduler, as I think that interface could use an overhaul."

"The one thing they could do is some tweaking on the web solution that's supposed to monitor everything from one page, rather than having to bring each server up on its own webpage. It doesn't always accurately show what the system's state is at the time, and we have to restart that process now and then."

"The cost could be reduced."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The cost is quite high."

"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."

"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was good, but it was a test system, not a real purchase."

"It is not a cheap solution because we need to pay for the license and pay for Azure resources as well."

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

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

"For NetApp it's about $20,000 for a single node and $30,000 for the HA."

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"I am not sure how much it costs, but I know it's expensive."

"We have never questioned whether it is worth it because it so obviously is a great value."

"The initial expenditure for us was a little under $40,000 for the recent renewal. For the first three years after that, other than electricity, there's no cost. After that, their support contract has to be renewed annually. We spent close to $6,000, between the two offices, for support."

"When we quote the price of Quorum to customers, they find it expensive."

"The pricing is about $1,400 a month. It's a little bit on the higher side. But it's one of those situations where time is valuable for me. So if it costs a little bit more money for me to have a solution that just works and requires less of my day-to-day management, I'm willing to pay a little bit more."

"The solution’s pricing is economical."

"When we first got the Quorum the licensing was different."

"The upfront cost of purchasing a license for the hardware is quite steep."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

51%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

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Real Estate/Law Firm

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Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about Quorum OnQ?

It is a very scalable solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quorum OnQ?

It's a little expensive. That said, the cost aligns with other advocacy tools we have evaluated.

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What needs improvement with Quorum OnQ?

They have radio buttons that allow multiselection, which is not intuitive. Also, the URL for our environments is the same, making it confusing for management when handling different departments wit...

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Also Known As

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

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Overview

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

Quorum onQ is the global leader in 1-click instant recovery, providing full immediate recovery of your critical systems after any storage, system or site failure. It does this by automatically maintaining up-to-date, ready-to-run virtual machine clones of your physical and virtual servers stored on a dedicated appliance – clones that will transparently take over for failed servers within minutes.

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Sample Customers

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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