NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Zerto on IBM Cloud

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Zerto on IBM Cloud is great to get your datacenter redundant and highly available. It overcomes geographic contingencies and makes your production environment reliably flexible. If you do not like the added cost of redundancy or cost of cloud services, this inconvenient fee may not fit you well. But you'd be better off in the long run to have Zerto protecting your bottom line despite the cost.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees

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Pros

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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It is easy to get started.
It is also very simple to set up the backup.
Disaster recovery is no longer a dreadful or painful process.

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Shiv Shivakumar

IT Ops

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

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Cons

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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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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Team Lead in Information Technology

Religious Institutions Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP 8.4

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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No score

No answers yet

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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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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

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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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Positive is the option of bringing your own license.
Negative - the complex environments are not supported.
This cannot be used as a backup replacement rather DR tool.

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Anirudh Srinivas

Lead Enterprise Architect

KyndrylInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

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.

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Starting Price

$40 per VM

Zerto on IBM Cloud Editions & Modules

Edition

Zerto	$40.00¹
Zerto One-To-Many	$60.00¹

per VM

Additional Pricing Details

Zerto one-to-many license available

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Zerto on IBM Cloud