Carbonite Server vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

OpenText and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. OpenText is ranked #29 with an average rating of 8.0, while NetApp is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.9. OpenText holds a 1.1% mindshare in CB, compared to NetApp’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Carbonite Server

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100% willing to recommend

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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95% willing to recommend

Carbonite Server

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Carbonite Server compete in the cloud storage and backup field. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has the upper hand due to its robust feature set and advanced functionalities.

Features: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers scalability, integration with major cloud providers, and high data availability. It excels in performance optimization, data management, and customization. Carbonite Server focuses on simplified backup and data protection, ease of use, and user-friendly support.

Room for Improvement: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP could improve in ease of deployment, cost-effectiveness, and reducing setup complexity. Carbonite Server could enhance its integration capabilities, increase feature variety, and extend its support service hours.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP requires detailed setup and technical expertise, though it offers comprehensive customer service. Carbonite Server provides a straightforward deployment process with accessible support, ideal for businesses with limited IT resources.

Pricing and ROI: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP involves higher initial costs but offers significant long-term ROI through adaptable solutions. Carbonite Server offers lower setup costs, providing considerable ROI through affordable pricing structures, appealing to budget-conscious businesses.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Carbonite Server

Ranking in Cloud Backup

29th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (41st)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Backup

10th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (1st), Public Cloud Storage Services (5th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Carbonite Server is 1.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Dale Dirkes

President at DIAD Consulting, Inc.

A simple, efficient, reliable product

The efficiency and convenience are excellent. The pricing is very good. It shows you what has been updated via little green dots. The solution is very automatic. I don't have to worry about it. It was easy to set up. Technical support has been helpful in the past. The solution has been problem-free.

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Madhusudan Srinivasmurthy

System Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Saves us a lot of time, and the administration is simpler

NetApp's Integration with AWS has helped us because we had a tough time transferring data when we used an ONTAP competitor as our storage partner. They don't have integration with AWS tools, so we had to figure it out on our own. ONTAP has built-in integration and allows us to replicate a copy to our second data center. Everything is in one channel. It's possible without the technology, but it's more time-consuming. NetApp saves us a lot of time, and the administration is simpler.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I find the BMR/image and the recovery pieces are valuable."

"The Granular Restore of SQL feature has been a lifesaver more times than I can count. One of the main reasons for looking at Carbonite was their support for platforms like AIX and AS/400 Series."

"The solution is very stable."

"It seems reliable and easy to use."

"The efficiency and convenience are excellent."

"It does not slow down your computer or use a lot of resources as it works."

"Easy verification of things is the most valuable feature."

"The solution is a free engine to help work with the container."

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"If you have a larger amount of data than normal in cloud, it is easy to provision and maintain. Waiting for the delivery of the controller, the configuration of enclosures, etc., all this stuff is eliminated compared to using on-premise."

"ONTAP is great for helping you migrate on-premise workflows to cloud environments."

"ONTAP's snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are pretty useful in recovering your data from a time in a snapshot. That's pretty useful for when you have an event where a disaster struck and then you need to recover all your data. It's pretty helpful and pretty fast in those terms."

"Lastly, the API and web services are fairly good. That is an important feature too. We write some code to do different things. We have code that runs to make sure that everything is being backed up as we say it is and we try to also detect places where we may have missed a backup."

"The ability to do a straight SnapMirror from our on-prem to the cloud with no other data transitions is excellent."

"It is much easier to control data since we can run queries across all our platforms with just one solution. Not only that, we can also monitor all the platforms with Active IQ, where we can see all the alerts, messages, and space consumption through a single application. This is regardless if the data is on-prem or AWS. It is much more efficient."

"Multiprotocol is the most valuable because Amazon was not able to provide us with access to the same data from Linux and from Windows clients. That was our value proposition for CVO, Cloud Volumes ONTAP."

"They have very good support team who is very helpful. They will help you with every aspect of getting the deployment done."

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Cons

"The support for object storage isn't quite there yet. Its public cloud support can be improved. I would love to see the public cloud support for object storage, and it would be great, but what I always hear from the folks at Carbonite is that in a lot of cases, it directly competes with their cloud offering. So, I don't know when or where that will go or if that will go anywhere, but we are hopeful to see something. The dashboard is a little outdated. If they gave it a facelift and put some better design around their dashboard, that would be tremendous. I generally care less about the visual aesthetics of an application as long as it does what it needed to do, which is true in the case of this solution. We also have the Microsoft 365 platform. Because they're two separate platforms, I have to log in to my Microsoft platform to manage it, and I have to log into my Carbonite server backup platform to manage it. Having these two coexist together in one management console is really what we're looking for, but we went for it knowing this. We also knew that there would be some integration coming down the road. So, we're again hoping to see some of that coming in 2021."

"It could be a little bit easier or faster to be able to access data files without having to download anything."

"The only thing that I would like to see improved is related to marketing. Currently, it is very difficult to find the right paper and stuff for me. Their marketing department should provide better information because currently, it is very difficult to find information on the internet. It was bought over by OpenText, and you won't be able to find a lot of information about this solution on their site. They should also provide training facilities for commercial purposes. Some of my colleagues recently went for pilot training, and they were technical. If I want to get trained, the training has to be more commercial. Currently, there is no such training for users like me."

"The stability has room for improvement."

"They do not yet have USB recovery but they are adding it in coming releases."

"The Hyper-V backup has room for improvement."

"In the next release I would like to see an improvement in the auto failover option."

"The only area for improvement would be some guidance in terms of the future products that NetApp is planning on releasing. I would like to see communication around that or advice such as, "Hey, the world is moving towards this particular trend, and NetApp can help you do that." I do get promotional emails from NetApp, but customer-specific advice would be helpful, based on our use cases."

"We are getting a warning alert about not being able to connect to Cloud Manager when we log into it. The support has provided links, but this particular issue is not fixed yet."

"The navigation on some of the configuration parameters is a bit cumbersome, making the learning curve on functions somewhat steep."

"I would like to see something from NetApp about backups. I know that NetApp offers some backup for Office 365, but I would like to see something from NetApp for more backup solutions."

"The only issue we had lately was that outside our VPC we could not reach the virtual IP, the floating IP. I heard that they have fixed that..."

"We've just been dealing with general pre-requisite infrastructure configuration challenges. Once those are out of the way, it is easy."

"I would like to see more information about Cloud Volumes ONTAP using Google Cloud Platform on NetApp's website."

"How it handles erasure coding. I feel it the improvement should be there. Basically, it should be seamless. You don't want to have an underlying hardware issue or something, then suddenly there's no reads or writes. Luckily, it's at a replication site, so our main production site is still working and writing to it. But, the replication site has stopped right now while we try to bring that node back. Since we implemented in bare-metal, not in appliance, we had to go back to the original vendor. They didn't send it in time, and we had a hardware memory issue. Then, we had a hard disk issue, which brought the node down physically."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price is reasonable."

"We pay 9,000 dollars per year for our license."

"The solution is open source."

"The pricing is between $120 and $150 per year."

"Once we deploy the pay as you go model, we cannot convert this product as a BYOL model. This is a concern that we have."

"Overall, the pricing of NetApp is aggressive and the pricing becomes more aggressive as the amount of data increases. The cost for a given volume of data that you are storing becomes lower. The greater the volume of data, the cheaper the license."

"They give us a good price for CVO licenses. It is one of the reasons that we went with the product."

"For NetApp it's about $20,000 for a single node and $30,000 for the HA."

"If a customer is only using, say, less than 10 terabytes, I don't think CVO would be a good option. A customer using at least 100 or 200 terabytes should get a reasonable price from NetApp."

"The cost is quite high."

"The solution's pricing is reasonable."

"The deal with the seller was acceptable; the pricing is reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

25%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Educational Organization

47%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Carbonite Server?

I find the BMR/image and the recovery pieces are valuable.

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What needs improvement with Carbonite Server?

The ability to perform instant recovery would be a game changer. For a large user base, the creation of user accounts at this time is a little cumbersome, there isn't any Single-Sign-On (SSO) integ...

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What is your primary use case for Carbonite Server?

I work for a managed services provider, and we supply the solution for various sized customers.

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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Also Known As

Carbonite Recover Backup

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Carbonite Server securely replicates data to the local backup server while securing a second copy in the cloud. Granular restore and local failover options ensure rapid recovery and minimal data loss. With integrated hardware and cloud failover for critical systems, Carbonite Server provides reliable data protection.

OpenText

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.

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Sample Customers

INLINE Commercial Construction, Hamilton County

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