If one is not cost-effective and ten is a highly cost-effective product, I rate the tool as a three. The tool is not so cheap. You have to pay some money based on fees to be able to host the data in the cloud so that NetApp can run the software, which is not cheap. You also have the bigger fees, which are for the on-premises side of hosting the storage for the file service, and such storage being hosted on physical NetApp is not cheap but okay. Being hosted on virtual NetApp, it becomes way more expensive because you have to pay a fee to NetApp for their virtual software, and you have to pay a fee to VMware for the virtual clustering and also replication of data, and then you have to pay a fee for the hardware vendor. The tool is not as expensive as the cloud. The data, or the running cost of the data in the cloud, compared to on-premises by default, is much cheaper than the OpEx and the CapEx costs.
Service Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Reseller
2022-02-14T13:25:05Z
Feb 14, 2022
NetApp Cloud Backup has a subscription-based model and it is paid annually. If you do the right sizing when selecting the subscription there should not be any additional cost. This would apply to any backup solutions, such as Veeam or Commvault. If there are any additional costs it's because the initial sizing was not done well.
Co-founder & Chief Architect at Prescriptive Data Solutions
Reseller
Top 10
2021-12-10T19:44:39Z
Dec 10, 2021
The cost of the product could be lower. The licensing fee is based on terabytes, which can add up quickly if you have a large capacity, but it can work well for both small and large customers.
Our usage depends on the number of licenses we have. On the cloud, it's a pay-to-use kind of model which suits our needs well. Once we have the Cloud Manager installed, the licensing process is okay, regardless of whether we're running backups in the cloud or on-premises. Sometimes, we have to restrict the number of users as per the contractual agreement and in this case we simply cut down on the licensing. When considering costs, NetApp works out better for us than the backup solution from Veeam. Although Veeam has a good footprint in India and the APAC region, NetApp has a bigger global footprint, making it more cost-effective for us to go with NetApp.
Data backup involves copying and moving data from its primary location to a secondary location from which it can later be retrieved in case the primary data storage location experiences some kind of failure or disaster.
If one is not cost-effective and ten is a highly cost-effective product, I rate the tool as a three. The tool is not so cheap. You have to pay some money based on fees to be able to host the data in the cloud so that NetApp can run the software, which is not cheap. You also have the bigger fees, which are for the on-premises side of hosting the storage for the file service, and such storage being hosted on physical NetApp is not cheap but okay. Being hosted on virtual NetApp, it becomes way more expensive because you have to pay a fee to NetApp for their virtual software, and you have to pay a fee to VMware for the virtual clustering and also replication of data, and then you have to pay a fee for the hardware vendor. The tool is not as expensive as the cloud. The data, or the running cost of the data in the cloud, compared to on-premises by default, is much cheaper than the OpEx and the CapEx costs.
NetApp Cloud Backup has a subscription-based model and it is paid annually. If you do the right sizing when selecting the subscription there should not be any additional cost. This would apply to any backup solutions, such as Veeam or Commvault. If there are any additional costs it's because the initial sizing was not done well.
The cost of the product could be lower. The licensing fee is based on terabytes, which can add up quickly if you have a large capacity, but it can work well for both small and large customers.
Our usage depends on the number of licenses we have. On the cloud, it's a pay-to-use kind of model which suits our needs well. Once we have the Cloud Manager installed, the licensing process is okay, regardless of whether we're running backups in the cloud or on-premises. Sometimes, we have to restrict the number of users as per the contractual agreement and in this case we simply cut down on the licensing. When considering costs, NetApp works out better for us than the backup solution from Veeam. Although Veeam has a good footprint in India and the APAC region, NetApp has a bigger global footprint, making it more cost-effective for us to go with NetApp.