NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 comparison

NetApp and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. NetApp is ranked #10 with an average rating of 9.0, while Veeam Software is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.1. NetApp holds a 0.6% mindshare in CB, compared to Veeam Software’s 5.9% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 12, 2025

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 compete in the data management and backup category, respectively. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has an upper hand due to its scalability and integration capabilities, while Veeam's comprehensive recovery features are highly valued.

Features: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers advanced data management tools, SnapMirror for data replication, and FabricPools for cloud integration, which enhances reliability. It is noted for its ease of use and disaster recovery functionalities. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 provides robust backup solutions with granular recovery for emails, files, and Teams data. It is recognized for its user-friendly interface and efficient backup processes.

Room for Improvement: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP could improve cloud integration, multi-region support, and tutorial availability. Users also recommend enhancements in support services and automation features. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 needs better scalability, deduplication options, and adjusted pricing models for large-scale use. Users seek enhanced integration with cloud solutions and improved pricing strategies for extensive deployments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is praised for strong support yet experiences occasional delays, with initial user involvement suggested for smoother deployment. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 delivers consistent service, though some find the support interface cumbersome. Deployment ease varies with infrastructure integration.

Pricing and ROI: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP pricing is capacity-based, with storage efficiencies reducing costs. Despite initial expenses for smaller deployments, users often realize ROI through optimized storage. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 has reasonable licensing costs but can be expensive for large user bases. It offers good performance and scalability, appealing to educational institutions through discounted rates.

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Categories and Ranking

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Backup

10th

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)

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365

Ranking in Cloud Backup

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is 5.9%, down from 7.4% 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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MehmetAksoy

System Administrator at Gates Corporation

Reliable rollback features for smooth IT operations and an easy setup

We are using Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to take backups of shop floor PCs. I use it for clients locally, particularly for critical machines. It is also used globally for server-side backups and includes scheduling features like taking ten backups every Sunday when the factory is closed. This…

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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

"ONTAP is great for helping you migrate on-premise workflows to cloud environments."

"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."

"The most valuable features of this solution are SnapShot, FlexClone, and deduplication."

"ONTAP's snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are pretty useful in recovering your data from a time in a snapshot. That's pretty useful for when you have an event where a disaster struck and then you need to recover all your data. It's pretty helpful and pretty fast in those terms."

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

"If you have a larger amount of data than normal in cloud, it is easy to provision and maintain. Waiting for the delivery of the controller, the configuration of enclosures, etc., all this stuff is eliminated compared to using on-premise."

"The solution’s unified file and block-storage access across our infrastructure is invaluable. Without it, we can't do what we do."

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

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"The solution is stable and reliable."

"The most valuable feature is that we don't need different agents to back up our files from different accounts."

"It is very easy to integrate. You can do it very fast."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, with ten being easy."

"We have backups for Microsoft 365 because it is in the account of the complete tenant compromise. If we lose access to a tenant or all of the client's data gets Microsoft 365, and they lose access to all of their emails, OneDrive, and Teams data, then at least we have an off-site copy that is not linked to their Microsoft side of things."

"Technical support in Veeam is good."

"Veeam Backup gives you the option to backup your data from the cloud to on-premises."

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Cons

"NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP needs to have customizable pricing options such as 10 TB increments. They seem to have only two options: 10 TB or 250 TB."

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

"Only AWS and Azure public clouds are currently available from China, and I would like to see support for Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud)."

"The solution is not stable when using single nodes. This is a problem. NetApp should work on this solution to make it more stable with HA nodes and resolve this issue."

"When it comes to support provided by NetApp, they have room for improvement. Every time we go through their support, we end up answering the same routine questions."

"I would like to see them improve the perspective of start and search in the panels. This would allow for better visualization of the contents that are captured in the tool."

"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."

"The DR has room for improvement. For example, we now have NetApp in Western Europe and we would like to back up the information to another region. It's impossible. We need to bring up an additional NetApp in that other region and create a Cloud Manager automation to copy the data... I would prefer it to be a more integrated solution like it was in the NetApp solution about a year ago. I would like to see something like AltaVault but in the cloud."

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"The solution is costly."

"If Veeam could offer backup as a service for data backup and recovery, that would be great. We'd like something like what Druva is offering at the moment."

"In some instances, a customer is not necessarily backing up Microsoft 365. For instance, they might be backing up a large Oracle database. It would be nice if they could tweak it to compress the file, so it's easier to transfer a huge file."

"The capacity storage is a challenge everywhere in the backup industry. The general feedback people are coming back to about this is that there is no deduplication based on it."

"Veeam's performance is inconsistent."

"We tried to use Veeam for our DRP. It was complicated to use and did not help us with our DRP needs due to our internet connectivity at that time."

"Microsoft currently saves only two months of conversation history, and it would be better if Veeam could focus on backing up more than two months of conversation data."

"Pricing could be more affordable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Compared to other storage vendors, NetApp, is not always able to compete with their pricing. Yet, we acknowledge the ease of use ONTAP brings with the AWS integration."

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

"It is expensive. There are no costs in addition to their standard licensing fees."

"The pricing of this solution is definitely higher than what the typical Azure Files and AWS solutions charge, but given the features and the stability NetApp has provided, we are okay with it. We are not complaining about the pricing."

"If we wanted to use the AWS solution, we would have to manage two or three different platforms and pay more money than what we should have to pay, as some of the features don't even exist. If we wanted to, we could use AWS cloning, but it is useless because it uses more space, is more expensive, and takes more time."

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

"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."

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"We have 2000 users and pay about $10,000. It may be a little bit more per year. We have an education institute and may have fewer expenses."

"We looked at a few cloud options. When we did the comparison, we found it to be a cost-effective solution, and it included everything."

"It is not the cheapest solution in the market."

"We decided on Altaro because, from the point of view of the total cost, Altaro looks cheaper than Veeam. Veeam has a lot of costs that are not clear when you start it, which makes it less flexible than Altaro, but only after half a year, you can be really sure that you made a good decision."

"I think it's a fair price. It's around $36 per user, so I think it's a fair price for our customers."

"I'm not sure about the price, but I think it could be lower."

"Veeam Backup for Office 365 is a subscription-based solution."

"The solution is very, very, very, cheap."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

55%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

20%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Government

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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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The tool is easy to use and straightforward regarding restoration and creating backups. It's user-friendly, providing results and sending alerts when something goes wrong.

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The pricing for Veeam Backup is fair for our infrastructure when used solely for backup, yet transitioning to a cloud solution was not cost-effective for us.

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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.

Veeam® Backup for Microsoft 365  aims to eliminate the risk of losing access and control over Microsoft 365 data including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams – so that data is always protected and accessible. Veeam can securely backup Microsoft 365 to any location, including on premises, a hyperscale cloud, or a service provider and:

Protects Microsoft 365 data from accidental deletion, security threats and retention policy gaps
Quickly restores individual Microsoft 365 email, files and sites with recovery flexibility
Meet legal and compliance requirements with eDiscovery of Microsoft 365 items

NEW in Version 7: Advanced monitoring and reporting through an integration with Veeam ONE v12. This is available as a separate installation and comes at no additional cost to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 customers. V7 also includes: Backup copy between ANY object storage systems with immutability for ransomware protection, and Microsoft Teams support for self-service restores via the Restore Portal.

The vendor offers a 30-day trial and a demo on Microsoft 365 backup.

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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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