NetApp BlueXP vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

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The compared NetApp BlueXP and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP solutions aren't in the same category. NetApp BlueXP is ranked #1 in SM , with an average rating of 8.8, and holds a 5.7% mindshare in the category. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked #2 in CSDS , with an average rating of 9.5, and holds a 23.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of NetApp BlueXP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP users who would recommend it.

NetApp BlueXP

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100% willing to recommend

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between NetApp BlueXP and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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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

NetApp BlueXP

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Storage Management (1st)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (3rd), Cloud Storage (9th), Cloud Backup (27th), Public Cloud Storage Services (11th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Management and Software solutions, they serve different purposes. NetApp BlueXP is designed for Storage Management and holds a mindshare of 5.7%, up 5.0% compared to last year.
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Software Defined Storage, holds 23.1% mindshare, down 29.4% since last year.

Storage Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NetApp BlueXP	5.7%
NetApp OnCommand Insight	8.4%
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor	7.2%
Other	78.7%

Storage Management

Cloud Software Defined Storage Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	23.1%
IBM Spectrum Scale	25.9%
Portworx Enterprise	16.6%
Other	34.400000000000006%

Cloud Software Defined Storage

Featured Reviews

Nagendra Nekkala.

Senior Manager Ict & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited

Unified control plane has simplified hybrid data management and has automated workflow orchestration

In terms of areas where NetApp BlueXP can be improved, I focus on privacy and governance. What I mean by this is that personally sensitive information in the interface needs to be encrypted, which is called privacy. As per the governance policy, that is for data security governance policy, it also needs to have a specific policy on how this data has been categorized. If I had the opportunity to add a feature or function to NetApp BlueXP, I would ensure that privacy and governance are taken care of properly.

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reviewer5948293

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

Offers performance control and cloud integration while supporting data management with granular flexibility

The scalability of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is interesting. We have thought about it, but we haven't used it. I think the scalability is something you scale up rather than respond to peak demand. 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. We like the scalability; it's enough for what we're planning to use, but we haven't used any advanced features. The standard platform is NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, which is their cloud service. In fact, that's probably the most experience I have with NetApp. I've experienced it on-premise, but kind of secondhand.

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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

"NetApp BlueXP makes it easier to deliver products and manage inventory."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to view all our different systems in one place. That's the most important feature for us."

"It has improved our disaster recovery."

"NetApp BlueXP ensures my data management by storage, mobility, protection, analysis, and control, so discovering, deployment, and managing storage are all of the real strong features for it."

"The primary benefit is that it simplifies data management. We face a lot of classification issues with our customers. They need to classify data, but they don't know how to do it. We can help them do it using BlueXP Datasense."

"When we compare it to classic infrastructure, we see money saving."

"All Pure products are very much compatible with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, maintaining a high level of compatibility-wise and security-wise, and are very much advanced and very useful."

"The software interface can extract the data from the backend effectively."

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"My advice would be to go for it; it is a great product and a great piece of software, and NetApp is cutting edge when it comes to software in the cloud."

"The feature which I like the most is that it has the capabilities that the traditional storage system offers. It provides all the functionality. The deduplication and compression work exactly like ONTAP's traditional storage. So people who have experience with that find it very easy to manage."

"The main benefit we get from this product is the ability to deploy it anywhere we want, whether that's on-prem, a remote physical location, or in the cloud. It doesn't matter from an operational perspective where it is. The command line and operating system are the same."

"I highly recommend that customers using native cloud storage from hyperscalers transition to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP as it offers numerous features and functionalities such as inline deduplication, compression, compaction, autonomous ransomware protection, snapshot technology, and flex cache that are unavailable with other hyperscalers."

"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."

"One of the features of this tool is the ease of use, in addition to the control access and the dynamics with which it is structured."

"One thing I have noticed is that it is very simple to move the data where we need to move it, delete it, or archive it if we need to archive it to StorageGRID."

"Its functionality and technical support are adequate to help prevent failure due to errors."

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Cons

"The dashboard management could be improved."

"The VMware capabilities can be improved."

"In terms of areas where NetApp BlueXP can be improved, I focus on privacy and governance."

"It is not easy to integrate with Google because if we have some problems, we must talk with Google and NetApp support."

"Performance could be a little better. In my opinion, it's a bit slow. If you click on something, it takes a while for the data to load."

"It's a very expensive product."

"I chose eight out of ten because the UI is slow sometimes, and the initial configuration is a bit complex."

"The tool needs to make its licensing pages more user-friendly."

"It does not have tutorials in languages such as French, German, Spanish."

"The integration wizard requires a bit of streamlining. There are small things that misconfigure or repeat the deployment that will create errors, specifically in Azure."

"Not a perfect ten because it's not very efficient with upgrades and management."

"I would like to see better integration with Active IQ."

"It's limited. We're trying to figure out better methods as we need to scale out more."

"Cloud Volumes ONTAP's interface could use an overhaul. Sometimes you have to dig around in Cloud Manager a little bit to find certain things. The layout could be more intuitive."

"The DR has room for improvement. For example, we now have NetApp in Western Europe and we would like to back up the information to another region. It's impossible. We need to bring up an additional NetApp in that other region and create a Cloud Manager automation to copy the data... I would prefer it to be a more integrated solution like it was in the NetApp solution about a year ago. I would like to see something like AltaVault but in the cloud."

"Their support and development teams can collaborate better to resolve an issue."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."

"Some flexibility around the licensing model would help. The product is licensed based on capacity. Basically, the largest capacity license that you can buy is 368 terabytes. At this point, NetApp is addressing some people's concerns around this."

"The pricing of this solution is definitely higher than what the typical Azure Files and AWS solutions charge, but given the features and the stability NetApp has provided, we are okay with it. We are not complaining about the pricing."

"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 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."

"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."

"The solution's pricing is reasonable."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

24%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

12%

Construction Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

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 NetApp BlueXP?

Related to pricing, this is managed by the financial team, but I understand it is a bit high. Compared to competitors including Dell PowerStore, Dell APEX, and IBM Spectrum, these are slightly less...

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What needs improvement with NetApp BlueXP?

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What is your primary use case for NetApp BlueXP?

NetApp BlueXP allows me to store and share large amounts of my digital data across physical and hybrid cloud environments, which is the main purpose of utilizing this solution.

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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...

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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.

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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

NetApp Cloud Manager, NetApp OnCommand Cloud Manager

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

NetApp BlueXP offers a unified dashboard, enhancing cloud operations with improved visibility across multiple platforms. Its integration with NetApp storage and user-friendly interface makes it a preferred choice for managing data, ensuring compliance, and optimizing disaster recovery.

NetApp BlueXP simplifies cloud storage management, providing tools for efficient data migration and extraction. Organizations manage data centers and media storage while utilizing a single control panel for unified monitoring and configuration deployment. BlueXP supports a broad range of environments, including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Azure, AWS, and Google. Despite occasional interface slow speeds and complex initial setups, it delivers significant benefits in security management and disaster recovery.

What features does NetApp BlueXP offer?

Single Dashboard: Centralized operations management across clouds.
Enhanced Visibility: Clear insights into multiple cloud platforms.
Easy Integration: Seamless connection with NetApp storage systems.
Security Functions: Advanced tools for improved data protection.
Unified Control: Streamlined monitoring and configuration from one point.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Improved Data Management: Efficient data handling and transfer processes.
Disaster Recovery: Robust features enhancing recovery capabilities.
Compliance: Enhanced tools for meeting regulatory requirements.
Security Management: Comprehensive security for digital assets.

NetApp BlueXP's flexibility makes it valuable in industries like media and entertainment, where efficient data management and storage are critical. It supports extensive cloud-to-cloud and bare metal transfers, facilitating comprehensive solutions across diverse technological environments.

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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

RapidScale, Bank of Cyrus, Societe Generale, Denver Broncos

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

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