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.
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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
- Set up a VPN
- Native format
- Extension of your internal LAN
- Live engineer support for all customers
- Engineers are NetApp experts
- Your data is proactively monitored 24/7 by Net2Vault engineers
- Any O/S or Hypervisor - ESX, KVM, etc.
- Any protocol - NFS, CIFS, ISCSI, FC
- Volumes and size limited only by NetApp
- Unlimited upload rate
- Industry standard VPN encryption
- HIPAA-HITECH, PCI, FUTA compliant
- Data location is exact and within country boundaries
- Custody of Net2Vault admins only
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
- Proprietary Amazon connection
- Upload and convert data into Amazon buckets
- Access data through AWS SAN
- Tiered support
- Learn AWS SDK
- Self-directed through Amazon tools
- Only Amazon VMs
- NFSv4 via Amazon EFS
- Limited to 32 volumes, max size 32 TB each
- Max 120 MB/s upload rate
- Transient locations. Global storage sites
- Unknown boundaries
- Global custody of AWS
- Proprietary EBS or object storage
AltaVault
(And other software layer solutions)Price
- Software/hardware purchase
- Subscription service to cloud provider (AWS, Softlayer, Azure)
- In house and locally managed
- Hardware front end for cloud providers
- Need to use AWS, Softlayer, or Azure accounts
- NetApp standard support
- Self-directed monitoring
- Only NFS and CIFS
- Restrictions based on cloud provider used
- Transient locations. Global storage sites.
- Unknown boundaries
- Global custody of cloud provider
- 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
- Storage REST API SDK
- Phone support not always included
- Engineer-level support not always included
- No proactive monitoring
- Only Microsoft VMs
- 64 TB per VM disk image
- 195 GB Block Blobs
- Object storage
- Unknown boundaries
- 3 copies in local geographies
- Object storage, file storage, and 195 GB Block Blobs