Kaminario K2 (discontinued) vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Kaminario K2 was an on-premise flash array storage. Silk updated its brand and focus to reflect the move of customers to the cloud. The former Kaminario K2 product is no longer available.	N/A
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	Score 9.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	NetApp's Cloud Volumes ONTAP combines data control with enterprise-class storage features for various use cases, including file shares and block-level storage serving NAS and SAN protocols (NFS, SMB / CIFS, and iSCSI), Disaster Recovery (DR), Backup and Archive, DevOps, Databases (SQL, Oracle, NoSQL), or any other enterprise workload.	$0.64 Hourly

Pricing

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Editions & Modules

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Explore: $0.64
Hourly
Standard: $1.68
Hourly
Premium: $2.71
Hourly
Bring Your Own License (BYOL): Purchased from NetApp

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Top Pros	Pro Super simple Pro Simple to use	Pro Storage management Pro Managed service Pro Automation capabilities
Top Cons	Minus Support is lacking Minus Data reduction Minus Third party	Minus Bit lacking Minus Provide free Minus Granular permissions

Best Alternatives
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Small Businesses	DBeaver Score 8.7 out of 10	SugarSync Score 7.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	DBeaver Score 8.7 out of 10	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises	DBeaver Score 8.7 out of 10	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Likelihood to Recommend	Silk K2 works well in our mixed-use virtual environment. I would not hesitate to place any workload on K2, it has always performed well. We use fiber-channel connectivity as it replaced our large legacy storage array, replacing one rack of spinning disks with 4U of flash. Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	NetApp 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. Incentivized Gary Slebrch Director of Enterprise IT Read full review
Pros	Silk Great performance Great support Super-simple to use Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	NetApp Simplicity Flexibility Cost savings Incentivized Randy Carpenter Vice President Read full review
Cons	Silk Not well known, so third-party support is lacking Data reduction is good, but not as good as expected (actual 2.7:1) Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	NetApp More competitive pricing at lower volumes of storage Make it possible to manage storage across hybrid and multiple cloud environments Incentivized Bill Floyd CIO/CTO Read full review
Support Rating	Silk No answers on this topic	NetApp We utilized NetApp remote Professional Services to assist in our deployment and also engaged support since the deployment for assistance regarding some networking concerns. NetApp support was surprisingly quick to reply and very proactive in resolving our concerns much quicker than other support personnel from many of our other vendors we use. No complaints about NetApp support at this time. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Silk We performed a bake-off with K2 and one other vendor and they performed identically. K2 pricing was aggressive, performance was great, and it offered the features that we needed at a price that we could afford Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	NetApp ScienceLogic SL1 and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) were the closest competitors to meeting our business objectives. Tivoli Storage Manager was not able to meet the initial requirements. There was a significant overlap of capabilities between ScienceLogic SL1, SolarWinds SRM, and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. The latter provided a more positive and cohesive experience for our administrators and executives. Incentivized Gary Slebrch Director of Enterprise IT Read full review
Return on Investment	Silk Installing K2 reduced runtime of one of our batch processes, freeing up one employee for other tasks. Less time managing storage. Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	NetApp Not really any noticeable impact yet We are utilizing the free tier that is provided as a promotion with current systems It remains to be seen if it will continue to be enough value to renew the subscription Incentivized Randy Carpenter Vice President Read full review
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