We performed a comparison between NetApp Snapshot and Quest QoreStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Fivetran, Dell Technologies and others in Data Replication."SnapMirror and Snapshot are both very reliable products."
"It doesn't occupy a lot of space and is very easy to use once you schedule the snapshots."
"It centralizes your data."
"The replication and SV protocol features are valuable."
"It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We are able to easily do Azure backups and restores."
"The most valuable features of NetApp Snapshot are the integration with other vendors and customization."
"This is a very mature product that does exactly what it needs to in taking temporary pictures of data states."
"The dedupe and compression are pretty extreme. On disk, we're getting dedupe rates of up to 65 percent of data and compression of 34 percent. When you go to the cloud, it's more like 76 percent for dedupe and almost 50 percent for compression."
"QoreStor has helped us to reduce our backup storage requirements on-premises. We've been using the same devices for quite a while, and so it lets us keep using them as opposed to having to rip out all that hardware and create a new on-prem solution. The advantage here is even if we had to retire the hardware tomorrow, the QoreStor part doesn't change. We just have to have additional hardware and put the solution back on whatever hardware we pick and it'll do the same thing."
"Data deduplication and replication would be the top two features. The encryption and cloud tiering are also attractive for the future."
"The features we use for the data deduplication are nice because we're able to back up a much larger amount of data, yet it doesn't necessarily take up that much data on the devices."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature. It saves us a lot of space. When we back up 100 terabytes of data, after dedupe, it only uses maybe five to six terabytes for the disk space in QoreStor."
"It integrates with various backup software solutions, which makes it compatible with existing backup workflows and processes."
"The licensing cost could be improved."
"The initial setup of NetApp Snapshot is not straightforward. It's not something that you can do just by clicking on the next step button. It has to be designed and it has to be implemented according to your network capabilities and the use case scenario."
"I would like some sort of notification that lets me know when a snapshot is done or not done."
"Although support is good, the global support is lacking depending on location."
"The solution could include more databases and make it accessible to the DBAs. The automation process should be run in a way where it could be run from the database itself."
"If your data is more dynamic and changes frequently, you need more granular retention levels and need to save it for a longer duration, then this becomes a real challenge."
"Not a perfect ten because there is one point off to give it room for improvement."
"The UI is probably their biggest weakness. There are always glitches in the HTML UI."
"The management interface is in need of improvement. The graphical user interface (GUI) for the web management tools appears clunky, and not super intuitive."
"In terms of improvement, we would like to have an Air Gap feature to prevent a virus from attaching to something. So that when we don't do a backup, we want the QoreStor to stay offline. It would be a nice feature to have."
"They need to increase their maximum capacity. Other than that, they're doing a pretty good job."
"The ransomware protection of QoreStor could use improvement."
"The installation could use improvement. The initial installation was a little touchy and it's not really user-installable. You have to have a connection to support to install."
"The setup of the software is definitely not the easiest thing. I worked a lot with Quest engineers, especially in the early days when we were first testing it and trying it out. I actually had some of the developers working with us at one point because they were going through these point releases, and I was having trouble getting it to work in this S3-compatible situation. We got it all working eventually, but setup is definitely not the easiest thing in the world."
NetApp Snapshot is ranked 1st in Data Replication with 20 reviews while Quest QoreStor is ranked 20th in Data Replication with 6 reviews. NetApp Snapshot is rated 8.8, while Quest QoreStor is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp Snapshot writes "A highly scalable and mature solution that integrates well with other tools and provides excellent features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest QoreStor writes "Multi-thread backups and snapshotting have eliminated the scheduling issues we had to deal with around backups". NetApp Snapshot is most compared with NetApp SnapMirror, Hitachi Thin Image Advanced, Dell AppSync, DDN DataFlow and Dell RecoverPoint, whereas Quest QoreStor is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce, ExaGrid EX Series and DD Boost.
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