AWS Storage Gateway vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Likelihood to Recommend

The AWS Storage Gateway is well suited if you want a quick way to off load your backups to the cloud to eliminate the need of a offsite storage location for physical tapes. The ROI is quite good from that perspective since you can utilize Glacier storage for the virtual tapes. The AWS Storage Gateway is not well suited if data sets being backed up is very large. The lack of de-duplication will add time to your backup. It will also increase the egress charges

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Edwin Labirua

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Leviton Manufacturing Inc.Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 1001-5000 employees

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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP was well suited to begin our journey to cloud storage as a service. The ease and intuitiveness of the product to enable our administrators to design, configure, and deploy the storage in a hybrid cloud environment was instrumental to the success and the early adoption of the service.

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Gary Slebrch

Director of Enterprise IT

General Dynamics Information TechnologyGovernment Administration, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

It is good for "forever" solutions for backing up data.
It is good for S3 attachments to traditional servers.
It is relatively easy to manage, once configured.

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Joe Hughes

Senior DevOps Engineer

Simpli.fiOnline Media, 201-500 employees

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Migrate on-prem storage volumes to AWS
Provides Disaster Recovery in the cloud options
NetApp [Cloud Volumes ONTAP] has been very stable so far!

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Mark McCully

Senior Network Administrator

University HealthSystem ConsortiumHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Ease of finding useful helpful tips on using AWS
Dumbing down of the technical jargon on the site
Short sharp to the point step videos - answering some common questions
Remembering not everyone is an IT person - could be more user friendly

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Rosemary Brown

Addiction Specialist

Help for You - Rosemary BrownIndividual & Family Services, 1-10 employees

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Additional cloud vendor support
Expanded capabilities
Lower pricing tiers for licensing
Free/included entry tier

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Randy Carpenter

Vice President

First Network Group, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0.01 Per GB

AWS Storage Gateway Editions & Modules

Edition

Data Written	$0.01¹

Per GB

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Editions & Modules

Edition

Bring Your Own License (BYOL)	Purchased from NetApp
Explore	$0.64²
Standard	$1.68²
Premium	$2.71²

none
Hourly

Additional Pricing Details

Visit https://cloud.netapp.com/pricing for the pricing breakdown.

Support Rating

AWS Storage Gateway 9.0

Based on 2 answers

AWS Storage Gateway is supported by the AWS Support team, they provide excellent support and great SLAs for our needs.

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Oscar Martinez

DevOps

Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP 8.3

Based on 6 answers

I have used NetApp solutions at various companies in the data center over the past 10+ years. NetApp always provides exceptional customer support with excellent support during setup/configuration and implementation. No professional services or consulting needed to get up and running quickly. Ongoing support and maintenance is also excellent--not that we need to use it very often due to the excellent reliability of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

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Bill Floyd

CIO/CTO

LexipolComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I find it great to work with AWS Storage Gateway platform due to its flexibility and the nature of its performance in our company. The cost of operating this product has been suitable and fitted our budgeting plans. Data safety is enhanced from end-to-end encryption and in case of any attacks we are notified to take possible actions. It monitors effectively all the storage processes that run across our applications and offers solutions to any bottleneck that affects data storage performance.

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James Hansen

Graphic Designer

CatchRetail, 501-1000 employees

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Cost was a huge factor and ease of integration and deployment led us to ultimately choose NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for our tertiary backup design. For our lightweight applications, we chose NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP because we were able to kill two birds with one product and have the deployment efforts and time kept at a minimum which again helps saves cost.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Storage gateway really helps with the migration of our image store with a large volume of data from on-premise servers to S3.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Media Production Company, 201-500 employees

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Positive Benefit: Measurable customer satisfaction increase by 50% attributed to visibility
Positive Benefit: Go-to-market time saving--reduced time by two weeks
Neutral Impact: Integration with third-party monitoring was not made easier but was able to be completed

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Gary Slebrch

Director of Enterprise IT

General Dynamics Information TechnologyGovernment Administration, 10,001+ employees

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AWS Storage Gateway vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP