NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Zerto on IBM Cloud

Likelihood to Recommend

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has been greatly suited for running some lightweight applications our company uses as well as serving as a tertiary target that we mirror off to our Cloud Volumes ONTAP within our Cloud provider. The transfer of data runs very smoothly and consistently which has been tested thoroughly with ingest/egress. I do not believe this product would serve well for our large proprietary applications due to the effort it would take for us to shift workloads to the Cloud at this time.

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Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

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Zerto on IBM Cloud is very well suited for backup and replication of data including large volumes of data.The disaster recovery process is rather simple. I would say there is not a scenario where Zerto would be inappropriate.

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Shiv Shivakumar

IT Ops

Infocrossing (part of Ensono)Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Pros

Integrates into major Cloud vendors.
Integrates with NetApp infrastructure.

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Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

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Ease of setup and upgrade. Installation and configuration was a breeze and can get you protected in just minutes without having to set up additional hardware.
Consolidated billing of the IBM infrastructure and Zerto licensing. One bill to pay monthly.
Ease of support access. Contacting IBM Cloud support is quick and easy and they can quickly involve Zerto support if needed.

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Religious Institutions Company, 201-500 employees

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Cons

See additional integration with other storage vendors.
Create single pane of view with integrated ONTAP systems.

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Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

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Enable the ability to use IBM Cloud Object Storage as a target for Zerto's long-term retention feature.
Easier access to the underlying VMware infrastructure would be nice. Right now we have to connect to IBM's VPN and use other tools to do some infrastructure management tasks.
More insight into the IBM-side VMware environment that we replicate to (i.e. ability to see available IPs, etc). Most of that is managed by IBM.

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Religious Institutions Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP 10.0

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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.

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Alternatives Considered

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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Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

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Before we were using native backup solutions. We elected to bring in Zerto on IBM Cloud so that our team could have the ability to take small increments of data over time so that the final cutover would be quick and efficient.

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Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Increased savings from on-prem data center costs.
Ease of integration into preexisting environment.

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Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

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Overall, it's a very effective solution both from a cost and operational standpoint. We now do DR tests once a quarter rather than once every 6 months.

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Shiv Shivakumar

IT Ops

Infocrossing (part of Ensono)Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

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.

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Zerto on IBM Cloud Editions & Modules

Edition

Zerto	$40¹
Zerto One-To-Many	$60¹

per VM

Additional Pricing Details

Zerto one-to-many license available

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Zerto on IBM Cloud