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Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 365 vs NetApp Cloud Backup comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Backup and Restore for Shar...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
SaaS Backup (29th)
NetApp Cloud Backup
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (30th), Deduplication Software (9th), Disk Based Backup Systems (5th), Cloud Backup (34th), Cloud Storage Gateways (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Data Center Backup solutions, they serve different purposes. Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 365 is designed for SaaS Backup and holds a mindshare of 1.4%, up 0.4% compared to last year.
NetApp Cloud Backup, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Backup, holds 0.8% mindshare, up 0.3% since last year.
SaaS Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 3651.4%
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 3658.4%
Commvault Cloud5.8%
Other84.4%
SaaS Backup
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NetApp Cloud Backup0.8%
Veeam Data Platform6.9%
Commvault Cloud4.8%
Other87.5%
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Pramodh Maheshwar - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Engineer - Wintel at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
A scalable solution for backup and restore that has an easy setup
The solution's updates and rollouts of the patches cause a lot of problems. There's no other way around it. Recently, we have also faced RDS and print server issues. One of our clients experienced some remote desktop service issues. These things keep happening with Microsoft. They have a patch, and then they have some other rollout that fixes it. The solution should be more consistent with its patching updates.
MS
Solutions Architect at SC PROSERVICECORP SRL
Offers protection and does scanning of the data in the storage
NetApp has a nasty way of dealing with the license for the product's on-premises virtual NetApp appliance that you need in your whole architecture, and it is not directly linked to NetApp Cloud Backup. It is not a feature that I want to change in NetApp Cloud Backup because the cloud backup service is architectured in a way that makes it available to users, so it looks pretty good to me. When you go to the other side, you can see what you want to have on-premises for the main side in order to have backup in the cloud via NetApp Cloud Backup. With the on-premises part, you need to have either a physical NetApp or a virtual NetApp. You only have two options for primary storage from the network. In the physical cases, it is pretty straightforward as you have pricing and something like a grid with your NetApp. The sales representatives explain how much it will cost you to have some physical NetApp storage based on performance, types, and so on. The support contracts are for three or five years. When it comes to the virtual NetApp, you can run on top of an existing VMware tool or a recent cluster; it gets nasty because they do not let you change the licensed server. Once you deploy a virtual NetApp with a licensed server that you have on-premises, you migrate off from that, but NetApp does not let you change the licensed server, which should be really simple.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature includes leaving the stub files behind and integrating that with the recenter feature."
"The stability has always been very good."
"Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 365 is easy to use."
"The solution has good scalability."
"NetApp Cloud Backup performance is good and they have beneficial technology."
"One feature that works well for us is that the Cloud Manager is a completely agentless solution. There's a similar dashboard on both the versions for on-premises and the cloud, and with reference to the Cloud Manager, it's a little faster because there's nothing to be installed as such. Being agentless, it doesn't require any agent to be deployed on the targets where the backups are triggered."
"NetApp is our go-to storage platform because of its flexibility, adaptability, and the different types of protocols it provides."
"I rate the scalability a ten out of ten...It has a great impact on our business because we have the infrastructure deployed globally on four continents around the world."
"Scalability is very good."
"One feature that works well for us is that the Cloud Manager is a completely agentless solution."
 

Cons

"The user experience needs a little refreshing touch."
"We need more options for the backup schedule."
"I think the solution itself keeps up with everything else. Sometimes it would be nice if they could move a little bit quicker and have faster updates, but in terms of the features, it's absolutely fine and adequate."
"The solution's updates and rollouts of the patches cause a lot of problems."
"There are some integration challenges when it comes to this, and I've spoken to the support team who say they have the REST APIs, but the integration still isn't going as smooth as it could be."
"NetApp has a nasty way of dealing with the license for the product's on-premises virtual NetApp appliance that you need in your whole architecture, and it is not directly linked to NetApp Cloud Backup."
"Integration and reporting could be improved."
"One area that can be improved is around how we define the different KPIs. In particular, the business KPIs. I have my own in-house application for the business KPIs, so for example, with our policies around retention, which is a period of seven years, I have to read these parameters from other applications and I need them to integrate well."
"The cost of the product could be lower. The licensing fee is based on terabytes, which can add up quickly if you have a large capacity, but it can work well for both small and large customers."
"NetApp Cloud Backup could improve by being easier to use. Veeam solution is easier to use."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution could also be cheaper."
"The solution’s pricing is expensive."
"Regarding CloudArchiver, you purchase per terabyte."
"Cost could be lower."
"If one is not cost-effective and ten is a highly cost-effective product, I rate the tool as a three. The tool is not so cheap."
"Our usage depends on the number of licenses we have. On the cloud, it's a pay-to-use kind of model which suits our needs well. Once we have the Cloud Manager installed, the licensing process is okay, regardless of whether we're running backups in the cloud or on-premises. Sometimes, we have to restrict the number of users as per the contractual agreement and in this case we simply cut down on the licensing."
"NetApp Cloud Backup has a subscription-based model and it is paid annually."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
18%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
11%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

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