We performed a comparison between Cloudian HyperStore and NetApp ONTAP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MinIO, Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others in File and Object Storage."The tool has S3 capability. Its scalability is excellent. From a security and encryption perspective, the solution supports SSL encryption. It is a seamless solution offering data encryption, quality service, and security encryption."
"It is very durable and that is particularly important."
"The most valuable features are its scalability and Amazon S3 compatibility because we can move back and forth with a hybrid cloud."
"The cost was the main reason we chose to use this solution."
"The technical support is great. It's the best I've ever encountered. I can email and have everything resolved at three in the morning within half an hour. I have had some late night calls to their guys techs, and it's been phenomenal."
"We bought it for a couple reasons. One, it took advantage of our existing storage because we could front-end that storage. It also allowed us, through native replication, to set up a DR site, which we're working towards. And three, that DR site, in 2020, is going to the cloud. NetApp has a nice solution for that. And our production in 2022 may actually go to the cloud. So all that is already in place, no additional tools. You can use the same SnapMirror and SnapVault technology to get there."
"SnapMirror is a good solution, because we can take our production data and replicate it over to our DR data center with minimal administrative effort, which is huge."
"Efficiencies such as Flash Cache and Flash Pool allow us to make better use of slower, cheaper storage and have some faster storage sitting up front taking a lot of the caching and the reading. The way that has been optimized for the NetApp platform is better than the competitors. It has reduced our cost of storage because we're buying cheaper storage for the bulk capacity, which is really effective."
"It has the ability to bring up disaster recovery quickly."
"If you lose connectivity, it has one-sided redundant connectivity on the back-end for shelves, which is good."
"It's extremely reliable, very easy to manage. I've been able to reduce the number of people I have managing the storage systems because of the software."
"The solution is very easy to configure."
"As it is an S3 solution with the same protocol as the one we have with AWS, having better integration with AWS will be beneficial."
"Cloudian HyperStore needs to incorporate AI and predictive analysis. It would be helpful if the solution could analyze and predict how to manage data better. The end users should not have access to protected documents. They should be able to drop the documents. The capacity management dashboard can be better. We also want two-factor authentication using Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator as MFA. Hence, the user would access the console not just by logging in with a password and username but with third-party applications as well."
"It is a cloud-based environment and at times, it is not very simple to use."
"I would like to see more in the public cloud space around things like object storage. A bit more granularity around how that gets deployed would be nice, but other than that I think they've got it nailed."
"Especially with the all-flash arrays, we would like to see better storage efficiency and deduplication. In terms of manageability, it would be great if NetApp would add more native reporting tools into the dashboard so that we don't need to use the third-party tool for analyzing our environments or to generate any reports. This would be especially helpful for companies that need to generate some chargeback for the customers."
"The setup can be a bit complex, depending on the environment."
"The config could be a little easier. It's not entirely difficult, but it could be a somewhat easier. I have seen other vendors make it easier."
"Technical support has gone down in my perspective. When getting to the root cause of issues, they need to respond faster."
"If they could come up with some more automation, this would be helpful."
"The initial installation could've been quite easy, but there was a lot of miscommunications with professional services and there are a lot of details that they didn't quite provide which caused a very complicated installation."
"The back-up side of the solution could be improved, as could the archive. We still have to rely on third-party backup programs and other archiving solutions. If it was offered by NetApp itself, it would be much better."
Cloudian HyperStore is ranked 11th in File and Object Storage with 4 reviews while NetApp ONTAP is ranked 1st in Storage Software with 73 reviews. Cloudian HyperStore is rated 8.0, while NetApp ONTAP is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cloudian HyperStore writes "A seamless solution offering data encryption, quality service, and security encryption". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp ONTAP writes "The on-ramp for all things Netapp". Cloudian HyperStore is most compared with MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Scality RING, Dell ECS and NetApp StorageGRID, whereas NetApp ONTAP is most compared with DataCore SANsymphony, Azure NetApp Files, Dell PowerPath, StorONE Storage-as-a-Service and Kodjin FHIR Server.
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