AWS Storage Gateway vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a relatively large infrastructure in place and are consistently backing up servers for legal or compliance reasons, this is a good solution. Also, this fits where you may store logs for review in a point-in-time type of ecological view of your infrastructure. Finally, if you have a large reporting delivery (ETL), this is very handy as well as a quick shortcut for delivery of locally generated reports from the servers.

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Joe Hughes

Senior DevOps Engineer

Simpli.fiOnline Media, 201-500 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

Configuration simplicity.
Use of standard storage protocols.
Easy integration with AWS services.
Data encryption in transit.

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Oscar Martinez

DevOps

Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 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

It is fairly difficult to get initially configured (as with most things AWS).
It is not always speedy.
Relative location becomes important for speed of consistent usage.

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Joe Hughes

Senior DevOps Engineer

Simpli.fiOnline Media, 201-500 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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Support Rating

AWS Storage Gateway 9.0

Based on 1 answer

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 8.7

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

We tried Red Hat Ceph Storage since we are a Centos/RHEL shop and there is a lot of engineering expertise on hand to manage it with configuration management tools and automation in place. What we discovered (rather quickly) was that the speed was difficult to bump up into nominal levels for attached disks, the network pipes' size did not matter, and there was an issue with logical disk management that would have added an extra layer of complexity to the whole inception of the product. We would have had to manage a backup of the system to our own buckets on top of implementing the tool.

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Joe Hughes

Senior DevOps Engineer

Simpli.fiOnline Media, 201-500 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

Cheap and reliable offsite backup storage.
Low configuration time via API.
Shared storage solution for multiple clients.

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Oscar Martinez

DevOps

Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 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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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

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

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Editions & Modules

Edition

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

Hourly

Additional Pricing Details

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

AWS Storage Gateway vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP