Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs NetApp SnapCenter comparison

Hornetsecurity and NetApp are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Hornetsecurity is ranked #32 with an average rating of 9.0, while NetApp is ranked #50 with an average rating of 7.5. Hornetsecurity holds a 0.8% mindshare in BRS, compared to NetApp’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Hornetsecurity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and NetApp SnapCenter are compared on numerous fronts in the data protection category. Users are generally happier with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup due to its pricing and support, while NetApp SnapCenter excels in its feature set, justifying its higher cost.

Features: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is praised for its straightforward implementation, robust backup and restoration capabilities, and user-friendly interface. NetApp SnapCenter is valued for its integration with various platforms, comprehensive data protection features, and extensive functionality, appealing to users with complex needs.

Room for Improvement: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup users mention the need for better reporting tools, enhanced support for cloud storage, and improved scalability. NetApp SnapCenter users point out that its dashboard can be unintuitive, the performance needs enhancement, and its user interface could be simpler. The concerns differ, with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup focused on extended capabilities and NetApp SnapCenter on user-friendliness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup stands out for its quick and easy deployment process, with users highlighting the responsive and helpful customer service. NetApp SnapCenter, while functional, is noted for having a steeper deployment curve, coupled with slower customer support responses. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup excels in deployability and customer satisfaction.

Pricing and ROI: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is favored for its competitive pricing and quick return on investment. In contrast, NetApp SnapCenter, despite being more expensive, is seen as a worthwhile investment due to its advanced features. The lower cost and faster ROI make Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup attractive, yet NetApp SnapCenter's richer feature set balances its higher price.

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Categories and Ranking

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

32nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (26th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (15th)

NetApp SnapCenter

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

50th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is 0.8%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp SnapCenter 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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Asif Usmani

Regional Sales Manager at S2

Lacks multi-platform support and physical infrastructure but excels in storage optimization

We use it for VM backup and Office 365 backup I find the solution to be user-friendly and easy to manage and deploy. It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent, especially in optimizing storage capacity compared to others. In terms of…

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Mir Gulzar Ahmed

IT Manager at Synergy Computers

Integrates well with various applications , provides a cloning feature for creating snapshots or clones of volume and a centralized command

It is basically centralized command control software. When the users visualize the workflow of the backup, the management and the customer storage administrator know the ins and outs of the backup and recovery. They can make the strategy for their backup and recovery and the certainty of their backups and restore. Strategic planning: Also, it is easy to make a strategy when you have visualized the inflow and outflow of the backup and recovery. With the CLI or native way, without any UI or management tool, you might not be able to create any strategy at all. This is especially important when you have multiple storage systems inside your data center or organization. You need a tool that connects and visualizes the workflow of the backup and recovery from all the storage systems and NetApp storage systems installed within the organization. It is very important when you have multiple storage systems, and you need to manage your backup and recovery workflow. Ease of Management: Unlike other storage vendors, NetApp has its own product called SnapCenter. Other vendors need to acquire third-party software or integrate with other software to manage storage systems. NetApp has its own solution, which is SnapCenter. NetApp's SnapCenter gels well with their storage systems and products. Ease of management is already there. It's a fine software with easy installation, management, and understanding. It's not a complicated software to understand.

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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

"The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases."

"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."

"It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent."

"Reverse Delta is Altaro proprietary backup deduplication technology. With Reverse Delta, the latest version of a file is always made available in its entirety, not as a delta file."

"Ability to restore to any host."

"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."

"The CDP backup feature is very nice, as it allows you to take backups at high frequencies and with application consistency."

"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."

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"The initial setup was straightforward."

"The backup process finishes very quickly."

"The support from NetApp is very good, and I would rate it as ten points."

"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."

"A feature that stands out is cloning databases. If you have a SQL database and it's huge, like one terabyte, the classical SQL way would be to do a backup-restore to create a clone of your database for test purposes. With SnapCenter now, we can clone a database but through the Snapshot technology, which means if you right-click and you click Clone, the one terabyte database is there instantly."

"It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development."

"It helps with strategic planning because it is easy to make a strategy when you have visualized the inflow and outflow of the backup and recovery."

"The most valuable feature is the RBAC, the Role-Based Access Control. In our managed service, we can have different layers of security."

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Cons

"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."

"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."

"Stability."

"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."

"Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup."

"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features and possibly reducing the price."

"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."

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"The documentation could be a little bit better so that we could handle more of the troubleshooting ourselves, rather than having to go through support."

"I have an issue with SnapCenter because sometimes a VM cannot be backed up... The way SnapCenter works is that it makes a backup of all the VMs and then it removes all the old backups. If one VM cannot be backed up for some reason, it has already created a new backup for all the VMs but it cannot remove the old backups. It ends up creating so many backups in VMware and it will cause a performance problem if the condition is not fixed."

"The GUI is still so-so. I' don't use the GUI that often anymore because it's really slow, refreshing disks, refreshing hosts, and you have to click a lot."

"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."

"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."

"Reporting of the jobs could be better."

"Some of the minor functionalities from SnapManager did not transfer over to SnapCenter. These should be added in future releases."

"We have hundreds of servers and systems and hundreds of customers and they're separated in a multi-tenancy way in NetApp SVM. Right now, the problem is that it always scan all SVMs. If I backup Customer A, it scans all SVMs, or tries to scan all SVMs, if there is a backup relationship on the storage. But it doesn't have the permissions, so we run into timeouts or the backup just takes too long. They're fixing that in the upcoming release..."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."

"There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."

"The pricing is okay,"

"No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."

"Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."

"Altaro VM Backup is affordably priced. It is a best value for its price and has almost every feature that an expensive, popular product offers."

"There is a free version for two VMs. I would advise to study the deployment environment well, prior to committing to order a license per host."

"VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."

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"We have a site license, so it comes with the product."

"It comes free with the amount of equipment we purchase from NetApp. In terms of pricing, zero is my favorite number."

"The licensing is well-designed because it's already included in some packages with NetApp storage. Therefore, for most customers, it's okay as the SnapCenter license is already included in some NetApp bundles."

"Pricing is very good because if you already have NepApp controllers, then it's included."

"We see a financial value with SnapCenter because we don't have to license Commvault, which is pretty expensive."

"The license for SnapCenter was included with the storage array."

"It's free. The license is included with other NetApp products."

"The product is inexpensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

20%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.

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What needs improvement with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V. It also lacks support for physical servers and workstations. Additionally, they should add more p...

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What do you like most about NetApp SnapCenter?

Most banks and financial institutions use the solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp SnapCenter?

The product should be free because it is just software to administrate systems purchased from NetApp, which are already expensive.

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What needs improvement with NetApp SnapCenter?

The interface usability needs improvement. It should be more user-friendly and easier for customers to use.

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Also Known As

Altaro VM Backup

SnapCenter

Overview

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.

Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.

Hornetsecurity

Unified, scalable platform for application-consistent data protection and clone management. This software simplifies backup, restore, and clone lifecycle management with application-integrated workflows.

NetApp

Sample Customers

Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox

All for One Steeb AG, Accenture

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