Azure Data Lake Storage vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Azure Data Lake Storage vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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ROI

Sentiment score

1.0

Azure Data Lake Storage reduces costs, enhances processing speed, and improves data management, analytics, and integration for better decision-making.

Sentiment score

6.5

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP delivers cost savings, increased efficiency, and improved performance, reducing storage, maintenance, and power expenses.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.7

Azure Data Lake Storage support varies, with premium customers enjoying better responsiveness, while others rely on documentation and forums.

Sentiment score

7.0

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP customer service is praised for expertise and responsiveness, with room for improvement in initial support.

The support team is very supportive, and most issues are resolved quickly once we get in touch with them.

DevOps Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

A good support experience is marked by the speed of reply and the relevancy of resolution tips.

Carlos JARDIM

EPM Practice Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

You can't expect her to know everything about Azure, but she knows who does know, so things can get handled by who knows about the topic the best, and that's usually the best way to handle anything anyway.

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Vice President, Technology at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

Azure Data Lake Storage is scalable and flexible, ideal for medium to large enterprises needing efficient data management.

Sentiment score

7.2

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers scalable growth, dynamic expansion, and flexibility, though large environments face data size limitations.

If you have a lot of cross-region needs, then you might have to do more work because it doesn't natively store data in various regions; you have to pick a region.

Vice President, Technology at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

For performance and scalability, we have never faced any issues even though we handle at least a TB of data every day without any performance problems.

Rama Subba Reddy Thavva

Solution Architect at Mercedes-Benz AG

For scalability, I rate Data Lake Storage around eight to nine on a scale of one to ten.

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DevOps Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It wouldn't help with outages either; the scaling is manual, and there are no processes we've used to automate that for unexpected scenarios.

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Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.3

Azure Data Lake Storage is highly stable and reliable, with 99.99% uptime, minor issues usually configuration-related.

Sentiment score

7.7

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers high stability and reliability, with users valuing performance and responsive support despite occasional minor issues.

Stability is rated around eight to nine out of ten.

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DevOps Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I find the stability of Azure Data Lake Storage to be excellent and would rate it as an eight out of ten.

Carlos JARDIM

EPM Practice Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Room For Improvement

Azure Data Lake Storage needs pricing transparency, better API accessibility, multi-vendor compatibility, enhanced features, and improved support.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP users seek improved scalability, integration, ease of use, and features like security, monitoring, and cloud compatibility.

Currently, migration is only one-way possible, and it would be beneficial if this aspect could be improved.

DevOps Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Compliance departments and IT departments love that type of feature, so people will blanket enable that, but then that racks up tons of bills because it's reading massive files constantly that should be excluded from that type of scan because it's not a type of file capable of having malware; it's the backend database.

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Vice President, Technology at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

With the emergence of AI technology, it would be convenient for storing vector indexes, essential for AI solutions.

Khang Do

Data Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

My opinion is that support is generally very good. There are instances where they take longer to respond or resolve issues, especially when customers have urgent needs, but ultimately, resolution is achieved.

Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

It would be nice to see technology supporting the Elastic Fabric Adapter on Amazon AWS, therefore getting RDMA technology for more low-latency connections.

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Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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Setup Cost

Azure Data Lake Storage offers flexible, generally cheaper pricing than AWS, though complexity and tier choice can affect costs.

Enterprise users enjoy NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for its features despite higher costs, with discounts available for extended commitments.

Both are the cheapest compared to Palantir and everything else.

Rama Subba Reddy Thavva

Solution Architect at Mercedes-Benz AG

In Azure Data Lake Storage or any cloud, either it is AWS or Azure, it is a pay as you go, or you can set a fixed capacity for the next three years, which enables around thirty-five to forty percent discount from Microsoft, depending on how customers prefer their subscription.

AmolPathare

Data Architect at cmc

The pricing for Data Lake Storage depends on several factors, like the configuration for multiple or single locations and if it uses geo-redundancy storage, which is beneficial but consumes higher costs.

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DevOps Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Valuable Features

Azure Data Lake Storage offers robust security, scalability, cost-effective options, and seamless integration within Microsoft's ecosystem for enhanced analytics.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers reliable, flexible data protection, seamless integration, and optimized storage across diverse cloud environments.

Data Lake Storage can interact with any other Azure resources, providing seamless integration and connectivity.

DevOps Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Allows for automated configuration of data operations such as deletion and transfer between repositories.

Jefferson Hernandez

Data Architecture and Engineering Specialist at coprocenva

It's essentially the blob storage but with more features that are analytics focused because usually that's what people are going to do with the Data Lake, which is ingest data for analytics.

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Vice President, Technology at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

The granular ability to divide up the performance and the amount of storage you want is really fantastic.

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Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Data Lake Storage

Ranking in Cloud Storage

8th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Storage

9th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (2nd), Cloud Backup (28th), Public Cloud Storage Services (12th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of Azure Data Lake Storage is 1.7%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 5.2%, down from 12.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Storage Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Azure Data Lake Storage	1.7%
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	5.2%
Other	93.1%

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Featured Reviews

Rama Subba Reddy Thavva

Solution Architect at Mercedes-Benz AG

Unified data lake has supported daily terabyte workloads and delivers secure automotive analytics

I would rate Azure Data Lake Storage around a nine out of ten. To give Azure Data Lake Storage a ten out of ten, they need to optimize the cost. The cost factor is the only thing I would identify for all my use cases, as they are very well equipped in other areas. Even though the cost is reasonable, if they reduce it, we would benefit significantly. Additionally, there is no data lineage and no ontology tools available on Azure Data Lake Storage. I understand it is blob-based, but if they maintain some ontology tools or data cataloging and data lineage, that would be great. However, those features are currently covered under Databricks, so we are not much concerned.

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Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

Offers advanced features with notable emphasis on innovation

The best features of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP include deduplication, compaction, and autonomous ransomware technology that native cloud storage solutions in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud do not support. Moreover, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows the use of multiple protocols including NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI, whereas native options may only support NFS and iSCSI. Customers already using on-premises NetApp storage such as FAS, AFF, or ASA can experience the same functionality on the cloud with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, which adds significant value. For data protection, customers can take advantage of the Snapshot technology available with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. This technology facilitates data recovery by allowing snapshots to be stored either on the same storage or on a disaster recovery (DR) storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP helps us to take snapshots and store them on the same storage, with options for migration or replication of those snapshots to different storage, including on-premises DR storage or other cloud storage, providing excellent disaster recovery capabilities.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

13%

University

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

13%

Construction Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	13

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	53

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Data Lake Storage?

Azure Data Lake Storage is very less priced because the difference when I compare on-premise to cloud is significant. On-premise, you need to have from day one the entire capacity, and you own that...

What needs improvement with Azure Data Lake Storage?

It definitely supports my needs performance-wise. The only challenge depends on what type of storage we are using for the data lake. Is it a hot tier or archive tier? Performance will depend on tha...

What is your primary use case for Azure Data Lake Storage?

My main use cases for Azure Data Lake Storage involve building these solutions, designing these solutions, and evaluating this solution. Once this solution is paid, HRD, LDR in place, I go on the e...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is actually quite reasonable in price compared to other native cloud storage options. For example, a customer using 100 TB of AWS storage would not benefit from deduplica...

What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

It would be nice to see technology supporting the Elastic Fabric Adapter on Amazon AWS, therefore getting RDMA technology for more low-latency connections.

What is your primary use case for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

I use NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP mostly in customer companies.

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Also Known As

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ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Azure Data Lake Storage is widely used for data warehousing, storing processed data, raw customer files, and integrating data from multiple sources, supporting analytics, reporting, and machine learning by securely storing JSON, CSV, and other formats.

Organizations use Azure Data Lake Storage to aggregate information for reporting, integrate it into data pipelines, and benefit from secure transfer capabilities. It serves data scientists as a staging area and businesses leverage its Big Data capabilities for developing technological solutions. With strong security features, high scalability, hierarchical namespace for better performance, and efficient data partitioning, it integrates seamlessly with tools like Databricks. Supporting structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data, it is ideally suited for data lakes.

What are the key features of Azure Data Lake Storage?

Strong security features: Includes SAS tokens and access policies
High scalability: Able to manage vast amounts of data
Hierarchical namespace: Improves performance
Efficient data partitioning: Enhances data management
User-friendly configuration and integration: Supports tools like Databricks
Support for various data formats: Ideal for data lakes

What are the expected benefits and ROI?

Hybrid cloud directories: Enhances data management
Enhanced big data handling: Improves data analytics processes
Policy management for data retention: Facilitates compliance

Azure Data Lake Storage finds its application in several industries by enabling technological solutions that leverage its Big Data capabilities. For instance, businesses in finance use it for aggregating financial reports, while retail companies leverage it for customer data analytics. Healthcare industries use it to store and analyze patient data securely. The manufacturing sector benefits by integrating data from different sources to optimize production processes.

Microsoft

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

NetApp

Sample Customers

Information Not Available

1. Accenture 2. Acer 3. Adidas 4. Aetna 5. AIG 6. Apple 7. Bank of America 8. Barclays 9. Bayer 10. Berkshire Hathaway 11. BNP Paribas 12. Cisco 13. Coca-Cola 14. Comcast 15.ConocoPhillips 16. CVS Health 17. Dell 18. Deutsche Bank 19. eBay 20. Eli Lilly 21. FedEx 22. Ford 23. Freescale Semiconductor 24. General Electric 25. Google 26. Honeywell 27. IBM 28. Intel 29. Intuit 30. JPMorgan Chase 31. Kellogg's 32. KeyCorp 33. Liberty Mutual 34. L'Oréal 35. Mastercard

Azure Data Lake Storage vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP