NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Veritas NetBackup Appliance comparison

The compared NetApp and Veritas solutions aren't in the same category. NetApp is ranked #2 in CSDS , with an average rating of 9.3, and holds a 24.9% mindshare in the category. Veritas is ranked #5 in DS , with an average rating of 8.1, and holds a 5.4% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Veritas users who would recommend it.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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95% willing to recommend

Veritas NetBackup Appliance

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92% willing to recommend

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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:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.5

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP delivers cost savings, increased efficiency, and improved performance, reducing storage, maintenance, and power expenses.

Sentiment score

3.2

Veritas NetBackup Appliance provides cost-saving deduplication, immutability, and ransomware protection, achieving 20% ROI and reducing expenses by 30%.

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The immutability feature ensures customers do not incur costs in case of ransomware, allowing for a safe restore, which means they are avoiding ransom payments, and that is a big win for the customer.

Sammy Githinji

Technical Manager at Rigor Systems Limited

Veritas NetBackup Appliance has helped reduce costs by 30% and has improved operational efficiency.

Sarang Nagmote

Deputy Vice President - IT at TransUnion

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.0

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP customer service is praised for expertise and responsiveness, with room for improvement in initial support.

Sentiment score

5.1

Veritas NetBackup Appliance support is efficient for some but faces challenges like slow resolutions and regional limitations for others.

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Their support is good, with technical teams available 24/7.

Shiva-G

Senior Manager at Cloud4C Services

Veritas has a very good support infrastructure with trained engineers.

Sammy Githinji

Technical Manager at Rigor Systems Limited

I contacted their support once, and the process was slow, which discouraged further contact.

Ahmed Handal

Oracle Technology Manager at MOPCO

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.2

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers scalable growth, dynamic expansion, and flexibility, though large environments face data size limitations.

Sentiment score

6.6

Veritas NetBackup Appliance is praised for scalability and adaptability, despite costs and occasional storage limitations.

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.

reviewer5948293

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

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I would rate the scalability of the product as a nine out of ten.

Andre Isaacs

ICT Director at SSA

The ability to scale and expand with Veritas NetBackup Appliance is good, and I give it a high rating.

Andrea Trespidi

Storage & Backup Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers high stability and reliability, with users valuing performance and responsive support despite occasional minor issues.

Sentiment score

8.0

Veritas NetBackup Appliance is praised for stability and reliability, though minor issues arise during upgrades and policy changes.

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I am satisfied with its performance and would rate it ten out of ten for stability.

Ahmed Handal

Oracle Technology Manager at MOPCO

They do lab tests before releasing any patch, so currently, the product is stable.

Sammy Githinji

Technical Manager at Rigor Systems Limited

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Room For Improvement

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP users seek improved scalability, integration, ease of use, and features like security, monitoring, and cloud compatibility.

Veritas NetBackup Appliance needs user-friendliness, improved cloud integration, better pricing, enhanced scalability, and more accessible management for non-experts.

My opinion is that support is generally very good. There are instances where they take longer to respond or resolve issues, especially when customers have urgent needs, but ultimately, resolution is achieved.

Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

It would be nice to see technology supporting the Elastic Fabric Adapter on Amazon AWS, therefore getting RDMA technology for more low-latency connections.

reviewer5948293

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

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Veritas NetBackup Appliance can eliminate the Java UI and move everything to the web UI, which is easy, simple to use, and the way forward.

John Chege

Solutions Architect at Rigor Systems Limited

Improving the interface could enhance user experience.

Shiva-G

Senior Manager at Cloud4C Services

The only room for improvement is that the cost per terabyte is extremely high.

Andre Isaacs

ICT Director at SSA

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Setup Cost

Enterprise users enjoy NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for its features despite higher costs, with discounts available for extended commitments.

Veritas NetBackup Appliance is seen as costly but valued for features, with varied pricing based on storage and maintenance.

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It's more costly than Commvault, which offers similar features at 70% of the price.

Ahmed Handal

Oracle Technology Manager at MOPCO

It is a high price because the maintenance has a large cost, especially if the appliance is hardware rather than a virtual appliance.

Andrea Trespidi

Storage & Backup Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The price is slightly expensive for small and medium enterprises.

Sammy Githinji

Technical Manager at Rigor Systems Limited

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Valuable Features

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers reliable, flexible data protection, seamless integration, and optimized storage across diverse cloud environments.

Veritas NetBackup Appliance offers fast, reliable backups, user-friendly interface, scalability, and supports diverse environments with strong data protection.

The granular ability to divide up the performance and the amount of storage you want is really fantastic.

reviewer5948293

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

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The biggest advantage is that I do not need to manage backups on traditional tapes, which helps maintain total business continuity.

Sarang Nagmote

Deputy Vice President - IT at TransUnion

The encryption feature in Veritas NetBackup Appliance helps protect sensitive information, as there is encryption at rest and encryption in transit from commands sent from server to client.

Andrea Trespidi

Storage & Backup Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The anomaly detection and notifications in Veritas NetBackup Appliance have helped me in my day-to-day work because when I have a server that is being backed up and it has some anomaly, for example, ransomware trying to encrypt it, I will have a considerably different footprint for the server backed up yesterday and the one which has been affected by malware.

John Chege

Solutions Architect at Rigor Systems Limited

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Categories and Ranking

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (2nd), Cloud Storage (3rd), Cloud Backup (30th), Public Cloud Storage Services (13th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (2nd)

Veritas NetBackup Appliance

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (15th), Deduplication Software (5th)

Mindshare comparison

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Veritas NetBackup Appliance aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is designed for Cloud Software Defined Storage and holds a mindshare of 24.9%, down 29.3% compared to last year.
Veritas NetBackup Appliance, on the other hand, focuses on Deduplication Software, holds 5.4% mindshare, up 4.3% since last year.

Cloud Software Defined Storage Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	24.9%
IBM Spectrum Scale	27.5%
Portworx Enterprise	24.9%
Other	22.700000000000003%

Cloud Software Defined Storage

Deduplication Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Veritas NetBackup Appliance	5.4%
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain	24.2%
HPE StoreOnce	18.5%
Other	51.9%

Deduplication Software

Featured Reviews

Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

Offers advanced features with notable emphasis on innovation

The best features of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP include deduplication, compaction, and autonomous ransomware technology that native cloud storage solutions in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud do not support. Moreover, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows the use of multiple protocols including NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI, whereas native options may only support NFS and iSCSI. Customers already using on-premises NetApp storage such as FAS, AFF, or ASA can experience the same functionality on the cloud with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, which adds significant value. For data protection, customers can take advantage of the Snapshot technology available with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. This technology facilitates data recovery by allowing snapshots to be stored either on the same storage or on a disaster recovery (DR) storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP helps us to take snapshots and store them on the same storage, with options for migration or replication of those snapshots to different storage, including on-premises DR storage or other cloud storage, providing excellent disaster recovery capabilities.

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Sammy Githinji

Technical Manager at Rigor Systems Limited

Backup management excels with user-friendly interface and effective deduplication, offering robust data protection

Leveraging AI in Veritas NetBackup Appliance is one of the road maps now that they have done a collaboration with Cohesity, which is a feature I'm looking forward to. Using AI is one improvement I recommend for the Veritas NetBackup Appliance. They have implemented some aspects of AI for features such as malware detection and anomaly detection. I believe they can do more to give customers more insight into their data, allowing them to see it and understand what they can do, such as archiving old data. They can do more by utilizing the data effectively to provide insights to customers about their space usage, future projections, and options for managing old data.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Performing Arts

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	53

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	27

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?

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 experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

Customers say that the price for Veritas NetBackup Appliance is high. It is a high price because the maintenance has a large cost, especially if the appliance is hardware rather than a virtual appl...

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What needs improvement with Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

I think Veritas NetBackup Appliance can be improved in terms of support. Support for appliances needs to be improved, specifically the quality of support that I receive. The specific areas that nee...

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What is your primary use case for Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

My main use case for Veritas NetBackup Appliance is for backup and recovery. I use Veritas NetBackup Appliance for backing up all customer data across Hyper-V, VMware, Oracle, SAP HANA, simple file...

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Also Known As

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

NetBackup Appliance

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

Veritas NetBackup Appliance is a comprehensive data protection solution that combines hardware and software into a single, integrated platform. It offers scalable storage capacity, high-performance backup and recovery, and advanced deduplication technology. With its intuitive user interface and centralized management, it simplifies data protection operations and reduces administrative overhead.

The appliance supports a wide range of applications, databases, and operating systems, ensuring comprehensive protection for both physical and virtual environments. It also provides seamless integration with cloud storage, enabling organizations to leverage the benefits of hybrid cloud backup.

With its robust security features and built-in resiliency, the Veritas NetBackup Appliance ensures the integrity and availability of critical data, making it an ideal choice for businesses of all sizes.

Veritas

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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