Compare Net2Vault vs. AWS®, AltaVaultâ„¢, & Microsoft® Azure®




COMPETITOR COMPARISON


Net2Vault Experts - How We Compare to Competitors

HOW WE COMPARE IN THE INDUSTRY

From proprietary connections to additional software layers, you can almost guarantee you will need to put in a lot of work to use our competitor's technologies. We believe adding additional complexity and overhead to an already crowded IT space is often less secure. It also burdens the staff that have to manage it. Every new technology comes with a whole new set of work-arounds, bugs, and vulnerabilities. We like to keep it simple. Provide industry standard technology in a highly secure environment. You know exactly where your data is at all times and who has access to it. Simple in use, simple in pricing, a simple decision. Please see below for the information we have gathered on other industry options.


 
Net2Vault
Amazon Web Services®
(AWS®)
AltaVault
(And other software layer solutions)
Microsoft® Azure®

Price

  • Bill per GB per month of average used data
  • No charge for bandwidth
  • No charge for file restores
  • No charge for data recovery
  • Zero hidden fees
  • Protection from volume spikes
  • Low up front cost
  • Additional charge for bandwidth
  • Additional charge for restores
  • Escalating costs to get your data back should you have a disaster
  • Software/hardware purchase
  • Subscription service to cloud provider (AWS, Softlayer, Azure)
  • Significant variability based on
    • Number and size of protected instances
    • Locally or geographically redundant storage
    • Type of application
    • Selected support tier
    • Full support is an additional cost

Ease of Use

  • Proprietary Amazon connection
  • Upload and convert data into Amazon buckets
  • Access data through AWS LAN
  • In house and locally managed
  • Hardware front end for cloud providers
  • Need to use AWS, Softlayer, or Azure accounts
  • Storage REST API SDK

Support

  • Tiered support
  • Learn AWS SDK
  • NetApp standard support
  • Phone support not always included
  • Engineer-level support not always included

Monitoring

  • Self-directed through Amazon tools
  • Self-directed monitoring
  • No proactive monitoring

Disaster Recovery

  • Only Amazon VMs
  • NFSv4 via Amazon EFS
  • Limited to 32 volumes, max size 32 TB each
  • Max 120 MB/s upload rate
  • Only NFS and CIFS
  • Restrictions based on cloud provider used
  • Only Microsoft VMs
  • 64 TB per VM disk image
  • 195 GB Block Blobs
  • Object storage

Security & Compliance

  • Transient locations. Global storage sites
  • Unknown boundaries
  • Global custody of AWS
  • Transient locations. Global storage sites.
  • Unknown boundaries
  • Global custody of cloud provider
  • Unknown boundaries
  • 3 copies in local geographies

Storage Protection

  • Proprietary EBS or object storage
  • Uses selected cloud provider
  • Object storage, file storage, and 195 GB Block Blobs


 

Net2Vault

Price
  • Bill per GB per month of average used data
  • No charge for bandwidth
  • No charge for file restores
  • No charge for data recovery
  • Zero hidden fees
  • Protection from volume spikes
Ease of Use Support Monitoring Disaster Recovery Security & Compliance Storage Protection

Amazon Web Services(AWS)

Price
  • Low up front cost
  • Additional charge for bandwidth
  • Additional charge for restores
  • Escalating costs to get your data back should you have a disaster
Ease of Use
  • Proprietary Amazon connection
  • Upload and convert data into Amazon buckets
  • Access data through AWS SAN
Support
  • Tiered support
  • Learn AWS SDK
Monitoring
  • Self-directed through Amazon tools
Disaster Recovery
  • Only Amazon VMs
  • NFSv4 via Amazon EFS
  • Limited to 32 volumes, max size 32 TB each
  • Max 120 MB/s upload rate
Security & Compliance
  • Transient locations. Global storage sites
  • Unknown boundaries
  • Global custody of AWS
Storage Protection
  • Proprietary EBS or object storage

AltaVault

(And other software layer solutions)

Price
  • Software/hardware purchase
  • Subscription service to cloud provider (AWS, Softlayer, Azure)
Ease of Use
  • In house and locally managed
  • Hardware front end for cloud providers
  • Need to use AWS, Softlayer, or Azure accounts
Support
  • NetApp standard support
Monitoring
  • Self-directed monitoring
Disaster Recovery
  • Only NFS and CIFS
  • Restrictions based on cloud provider used
Security & Compliance
  • Transient locations. Global storage sites.
  • Unknown boundaries
  • Global custody of cloud provider
Storage Protection
  • Uses selected cloud provider

Microsoft Azure

Price
  • Significant variability based on
    • Number and size of protected instances
    • Locally or geographically redundant storage
    • Type of application
    • Selected support tier
  • Full support is an additional cost
Ease of Use
  • Storage REST API SDK
Support
  • Phone support not always included
  • Engineer-level support not always included
Monitoring
  • No proactive monitoring
Disaster Recovery
  • Only Microsoft VMs
  • 64 TB per VM disk image
  • 195 GB Block Blobs
  • Object storage
Security & Compliance
  • Unknown boundaries
  • 3 copies in local geographies
Storage Protection
  • Object storage, file storage, and 195 GB Block Blobs


ABOUT US

Net2Vault is a cloud service provider delivering enterprise-level solutions to NetApp customers through native replication. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, we offer Data Backup, Disaster Recovery, Tier 4 Archive and Managed Services to customers across North America. Our goal is to provide a simple, cost effective solution customizable for any NetApp environment.

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