Carbonite Server vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

OpenText and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. OpenText is ranked #31 with an average rating of 8.0, while NetApp is ranked #14 with an average rating of 9.0. OpenText holds a 1.1% mindshare in CB, compared to NetApp’s 0.7% 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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Carbonite Server vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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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

Carbonite Server

Ranking in Cloud Backup

31st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (43rd)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Backup

14th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (2nd), Public Cloud Storage Services (7th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Carbonite Server is 1.1%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 0.7%, up from 0.5% 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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Pramod-Talekar

Sr Service Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution

The tool's most valuable features are the SnapLock and SnapMirror features. If something goes wrong with the data, we can restore it. This isn't a mirror; we store data in different locations. If there's an issue on the primary site, we can retrieve data from the secondary site. Multiprotocol support in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is beneficial because it allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution. This feature eliminates the need to purchase different types of storage.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"It seems reliable and easy to use."

"The efficiency and convenience are excellent."

"The solution is very stable."

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

"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."

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

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

"Technical support handled all our issues quickly and effectively."

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"I like how you can easily pair on-prem with the cloud and the cloud backup feature. I like the whole integration with on-prem and the cloud for SnapMirror relationships."

"We're using snapshots as well and it's a pretty useful feature. That is one of the main NetApp benefits. Knowing how to use snapshots in the on-prem environment, using snapshots on the cloud solution was natural for us."

"The Cloud Manager application that's on the NetApp cloud site is easy to use. You can set up and schedule replications from there, so you don't have to go into the ONTAP system. Another feature we've recently started using is the scheduled power off. We started with one client and have been slowly implementing it with others. We can cut costs by not having the VM run all the time. It's only on when it's doing replication, but it powers off after."

"The fast recovery time objective with the ability to bring the environment back to production in case something happens."

"We are definitely in the process of reducing our footprint on our secondary data center and all those snapshots technically reduce tape backup. That's from the protection perspective, but as far as files, it's much easier to use and manage and it's faster, too."

"Unified Manager, System Manager, and Cloud Manager are all GUI-based. It's easy for somebody who has not been exposed to this for years to pick it up and work with it."

"The most valuable features of this solution are SnapShot, FlexClone, and deduplication."

"The ability to see things going back and forth has been quite useful."

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Cons

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

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

"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 stability has room for improvement."

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

"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 key feature, that we'd like to see in that is the ability to sync between regions within the AWS and Azure regions. We could use the cloud sync service, but we'd really like that native functionality within the cloud volume service."

"It definitely needs improvement with respect to clustering and with respect to more collaborative integrations with Azure. Right now, we have very limited functionalities with Azure, except for storage. If CVO could be integrated with Azure that would help. When there is any sort of maintenance happening in the cloud, it disrupts the service in Cloud Volumes ONTAP."

"There is room for improvement with the capacity. There's a very hard limit to how many disks you can have and how much space you can have. That is something they should work to fix, because it's limiting. Right now, the limit is about 360 terabytes or 36 disks."

"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."

"The encryption and deduplication features still have a lot of room for improvement."

"The data tiering needs improvement. E.g., moving hard data to faster disks."

"I think the challenge now is more in terms of keeping an air gap. The notion that it is in the cloud, easy to break, etc. The challenge now is mostly about the air gap and how we can protect that in the cloud."

"In the next release, I would like to see more options on the dashboard."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is open source."

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

"Its price is reasonable."

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

"If we wanted to use the AWS solution, we would have to manage two or three different platforms and pay more money than what we should have to pay, as some of the features don't even exist. If we wanted to, we could use AWS cloning, but it is useless because it uses more space, is more expensive, and takes more time."

"The pricing could be improved. It is a good product, but it is very expensive for me."

"Make sure you investigate what your requirements are going to cost you using the native cloud solutions versus what NetApp is going to cost you, to make sure you have a business case to go with NetApp."

"Cloud is cloud. It's still expensive. Any good solution comes with a price tag. That's where we are looking to see how well we can manage our data in the cloud by trying to optimize the costs."

"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."

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

"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."

"The standard pricing is online. Pricing depends. If you're using the PayGo model, then it's just the normal costs on the Microsoft page. If you're using Bring Your Own License, which is what we're doing, then you get with your sales contact at NetApp and start figuring out what price is the best, in the end, for your company."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Educational Organization

22%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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

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