NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Quorum OnQ comparison

NetApp and Quorum are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. NetApp is ranked #14 with an average rating of 9.0, while Quorum is ranked #36 with an average rating of 8.3. NetApp holds a 0.6% mindshare in CB, compared to Quorum’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Quorum users who would recommend it.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Quorum OnQ compete in the data management and disaster recovery market. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has the upper hand in cloud integration and cost-saving features, while Quorum OnQ is noted for its rapid recovery capabilities.

Features: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers SnapMirror and SnapVault for data backup, high availability, and cloud integration. Its cost-saving functionalities include deduplication and data compression. Quorum OnQ emphasizes rapid recovery with automated testing and a robust system against ransomware, simplifying disaster and file recovery.

Room for Improvement: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP could enhance navigation, multilingual support, SAP HANA certification, and asset performance monitoring. Quorum OnQ would benefit from broader platform support, especially for Linux, and a more refined user interface to compete with other solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP supports flexible deployment across different cloud models, despite mixed technical support reviews. Quorum OnQ primarily offers on-premises deployment, with customer service praised for quick responses, although it lacks cloud flexibility.

Pricing and ROI: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides a scalable pricing structure aligned with its features, acknowledged for cost efficiency despite higher costs. Quorum OnQ is considered initially pricier but offers value through its disaster recovery solutions and bundled support, seen as competitive in its pricing structure.

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Categories and Ranking

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 (6th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Quorum OnQ

Ranking in Cloud Backup

36th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (46th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (22nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Quorum OnQ is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Mohamed Iqbal

Presales Information Technology Consultant at JBA

A stable and economical solution that provides quick disaster recovery

The most valuable feature of Quorum OnQ is quick recovery. We call it a single-click recovery. If any server goes down, crashes, or experiences downtime, we can bring up the DR (Disaster Recovery) server in just two minutes. We also have a "Single Pane of Glass," wherein we work with only a single window. You don't have to use multiple windows to perform basic tasks like failover or failback.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"In terms of administration, the portal which provides the dashboard view is an excellent tool for operations. It gives you volume divisions, usage rates, which division is using how much data, and more. The operations portal is fantastic for the support team."

"This solution has made everything easier to do."

"With NetApp, you can integrate malware scanning or malware protection. This is something valuable that is not offered in SaaS solutions typically."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it makes our data readily available and we don't have to go through a lot of trouble to access it."

"SnapMirror helps mirror metadata and data volumes between endpoints in a data fabric."

"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are the best thing since sliced bread. Rollback is super easy. It's just simple, and it works. It's very efficient."

"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."

"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."

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"The most valuable feature is spinning up a ready-to-go VM in a test or production environment that is based on a backup stored on the Quorum device."

"One of the most valuable features was the usability, since many of the features were very straightforward. The backup and restoration process was also very fast. Although we weren't able to fully test the scenarios, one of the features was that we could have it restored on a remote site. However, since we were on-prem, we weren't able to test the remote site restoration."

"It is a stable solution."

"It provides a smooth training experience and easy terminology for those in the advocacy world."

"The biggest feature is being able to do a file recovery to the original server. That is extremely useful and has saved us a few times when we've had ransomware. In some of those cases, people's computers were locked down by viruses which spread to things they had access to, including server shares. But we were easily able to just restore to four hours prior, instead of a day or two or more ago."

"I like this product because it is easy to use."

"It's easy to implement, easy to spin up, easily configurable, to drop-in appliances and network. There wasn't a lot of time needed to spin it up."

"Quorum OnQ has taken the guesswork out of backup/recovery and disaster recovery."

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Cons

"We have used technical support. As long as they don't call me at four o'clock in the morning to tell me that a drive failed and they are sending me another one, I like it. They have a tendency to do that."

"We have customers that are still using IBM mainframes and that very old SNA architecture from IBM. There are questions about how you interconnect the data on the mainframe side... But I don't know if it's worth it for NetApp to invest in developing products to include mainframes for a few customers."

"Some of the licensing is a little kludgy. We just created an HA environment in Azure and their licensing for SVMs per node is a little kludgy. They're working on it right now."

"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."

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

"When Azure does their maintenance, they do maintenance on one node at a time. With the two nodes of the CVO, it can automatically fail over from one node to the node that is staying up. And when the first node comes back online, it will fail back to the first node. We have had issues with everything failing back 100 percent correctly."

"I would like to see more aggressive management of the aggregate space. On the Cloud Volumes ONTAP that we use for offsite backup copies, most of the data sits in S3. There are also the EBS volumes on the Cloud Volumes ONTAP itself. Sometimes what happens is that the aggregate size just stays the same. If it allocates 8 terabytes initially, it just stays at 8 terabytes for a long time, even though we're only using 20 percent of that 8 terabytes. NetApp could undersize that more aggressively."

"I would like to have more management tools. They are difficult to work with, so I would like them to be a bit more user-friendly."

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"Better integration with cloud-based solutions like Azure and Office 365 is needed."

"Quorum OnQ can be improved by providing support for other operating systems like Ubuntu."

"We found that some of the live SQL databases we were backing up would be inconsistent when we would restore them."

"The price is high and could be more competitive."

"It feels to me like it's going to be a little bit more work than I originally anticipated when upgrading the appliance. I haven't done that yet so I can't speak from true experience, but I went through the project plan and it feels to me like there's quite a number of pieces and components and things that have to be done. Quorum is going to manage the rollout, but in starting the initial conversation there were a lot of unanswered questions"

"There seems to be a lack of technicians. Sometimes they are very busy and I don't hear back for a day or two. The technicians they have are great. They are fantastic, but it seems difficult, at times, to get in contact with anyone."

"The user interface needs to be improved."

"The cost could be reduced."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is quite high."

"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was good, but it was a test system, not a real purchase."

"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."

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

"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."

"Our licensing costs are folded into the hardware purchases and I have never differentiated between the two."

"For enterprise customers, it's a very cost effective. But in the SMB segment, yeah, pricing is a little bit challenge for your time."

"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."

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"When we first got the Quorum the licensing was different."

"I am not sure how much it costs, but I know it's expensive."

"The total for our current solution's licensing is about $14,000 for 12 servers for three years."

"The initial expenditure for us was a little under $40,000 for the recent renewal. For the first three years after that, other than electricity, there's no cost. After that, their support contract has to be renewed annually. We spent close to $6,000, between the two offices, for support."

"The cost is higher than other software and services, but it is an absolute must-have."

"When we quote the price of Quorum to customers, they find it expensive."

"The solution’s pricing is economical."

"Quorum OnQ can be described as a medium-priced product...There are no ingress and egress charges in the product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

31%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about Quorum OnQ?

It is a very scalable solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quorum OnQ?

It's a little expensive. That said, the cost aligns with other advocacy tools we have evaluated.

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What needs improvement with Quorum OnQ?

They have radio buttons that allow multiselection, which is not intuitive. Also, the URL for our environments is the same, making it confusing for management when handling different departments wit...

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Also Known As

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

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Overview

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.

NetApp

Quorum onQ is the global leader in 1-click instant recovery, providing full immediate recovery of your critical systems after any storage, system or site failure. It does this by automatically maintaining up-to-date, ready-to-run virtual machine clones of your physical and virtual servers stored on a dedicated appliance – clones that will transparently take over for failed servers within minutes.

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Sample Customers

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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