Datto Cloud Continuity vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

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datto and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. datto is ranked #39, while NetApp is ranked #26 with an average rating of 9.0. datto holds a 1.1% mindshare in CB, compared to NetApp’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of datto users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Datto Cloud Continuity

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Datto Cloud Continuity and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP compete in cloud-based data protection and management. Datto has the advantage in customer support and pricing, while NetApp stands out with advanced features.

Features: Datto Cloud Continuity offers simplified data backup and recovery with a focus on user-friendly continuity management, efficient data recovery, and system reliability. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides versatile data management, automatic tiering, snapshot capabilities, and cross-region data replication, prioritizing advanced data protection and scalability.

Room for Improvement: Datto Cloud Continuity could enhance its feature set to match more complex needs, improve restoration processes, and increase integration with third-party platforms. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP might work on further simplifying deployment, reducing the requirement for extensive technical expertise, and offering more flexible pricing options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Datto Cloud Continuity is known for its easy deployment and exceptional customer support, facilitating a seamless setup experience. In contrast, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP's deployment is more intricate, supported by thorough documentation and resources, requiring more technical skills but offering extensive support materials.

Pricing and ROI: Datto Cloud Continuity benefits from a competitive pricing model that provides attractive ROI through low setup costs and effective protection. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, albeit with a higher initial cost, delivers strong ROI through its comprehensive features and secure data management, making it worthwhile for enterprises needing advanced capabilities.

To learn more, read our detailed Datto Cloud Continuity vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Report (Updated: November 2026).

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Datto Cloud Continuity vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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Categories and Ranking

Datto Cloud Continuity

Ranking in Cloud Backup

39th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (27th)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Backup

26th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (3rd), Cloud Storage (10th), Public Cloud Storage Services (11th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Datto Cloud Continuity is 1.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	1.2%
Datto Cloud Continuity	1.1%
Other	97.7%

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TrevorSmith

Assistant Director, Network Operations at Premier Marine Insurance

Provides enterprise-level protection from ransomware attacks

Speaking about how the product is deployed in my company's business operations, I would say that it is an appliance with a critical infrastructure. In terms of data protection capabilities, the tool's ability to boot a device and have a separate network has saved the day for many of our company's clients who use the solution. If you have a collection of old servers, and if one of the old servers dies, you could be dead in the water if you cannot locally boot a server. Even the new gears in place can have an issue if people are not spending money on robust hardware tools, and replace them. It is necessary to have the local boot options if and when you have a hardware issue. The product brings the most value in the area of virtual boot when it comes to disaster recovery since it can boot up a version of the server from before an incident, which is helpful and allows your company to have a lower RPO or recovery point objective. It makes a big difference if you can have an RPO in hours rather than in days. The image-based backup functionality has revolutionized and impacted our company recovery time objectives since we deal in hours and not in days. The interface of the product is intuitive. I like the product's functionality that provides the ability to see everything at a glance, along with the alerting feature. Maintenance is required since certain drives die at times. In general, maintenance is required to deal with dead RAMs and hard drives. The former clients with small offices and the old Linux servers that used to die in production used to boot such servers with the help of Datto Cloud Continuity. The aforementioned process allows the clients to continue running their business while buying time to get replacement hardware, making a big difference that helps them reduce potential data loss or downtime. The local boot provided by the product saved the day for many of our company's clients. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. Though the tool is not inexpensive, it provides enterprise-level protection from ransomware. I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

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reviewer5948293

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

Offers performance control and cloud integration while supporting data management with granular flexibility

The scalability of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is interesting. We have thought about it, but we haven't used it. I think the scalability is something you scale up rather than respond to peak demand. 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. We like the scalability; it's enough for what we're planning to use, but we haven't used any advanced features. The standard platform is NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, which is their cloud service. In fact, that's probably the most experience I have with NetApp. I've experienced it on-premise, but kind of secondhand.

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Pros

"The product's initial setup phase is easy."

"The data recovery of the solution is very good."

"Datto has strong competition, but they succeeded in linking their service to the device. It's easy for managed service providers to sell and upsell products using their portal and the remote monitoring and maintenance."

"The solution's reliability is one of its most valuable features...It is a very stable solution."

"The recovery time objective and recovery point objective were most valuable. It was easy to use, and it was easy to recover a file. I was the head of sales and a product evaluator for an MSSP, so I never had to deal with recovery from ransomware. However, I was confident that if ransomware had occurred, I would only lose a maximum of 59 minutes of data. The files were encrypted."

"For local backup, it works well."

"They are laser-focused on bringing forth proven protection technologies and stopping cybercriminals from being able to breach, break, steal, or compromise your data."

"When you compare it to other systems that require a fat client to be installed or to have several VMs setup just to configure the system, Datto stands head and shoulders above."

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"It gives us a way to optimize resource usage in the public cloud, without overpaying or wasting resources, while providing unified storage no matter what data you have and ensuring we have control of the data and know what it's being used for."

"The ease of use in terms of how the product works is valuable. We are able to work with it and deploy the storage that we need."

"One of the most valuable features is its similarity to the physical app, which makes it familiar. It's almost identical to a real NetApp, which means you can run all of the associated NetApp processes and services with it. Otherwise, we would definitely have to deploy some hardware on a site somewhere, which could be a challenge in terms of CapEx."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it makes our data readily available and we don't have to go through a lot of trouble to access it."

"The initial setup was straightforward. We started with a small pilot and we then moved to production with no downtime at all."

"Cloud Volumes ONTAP is NetApp; it's the same technology which is where the efficiency really is, and it's much more efficient than using a third-party solution."

"If your organization is looking for cost savings, NetApp is the way to go."

"The support is its most valuable feature as they provide on-call support, respond to issues in a timely fashion, and also offer disaster recovery."

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Cons

"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud."

"Datto chose to build their own cloud, instead of leveraging AWS, Azure or GCP. It looks, feels and behaves like a beta product (lacks maturity)."

"I don't have any feedback to provide in terms of features that may be lacking."

"Right now the appliances have a functional limit of 50 protected servers each."

"Datto's only shortcoming is RMM. They have a portal-based connection service like ConnectWise, but it does backups and keeps things running. Datto purchased Backupify and Kaseya bought Datto. If they upped the ante in their RMM, I could see them dominating the MSP space. At the end of the day, MSPs are responsible for networks, software, devices, and backup. Datto covers all these functions so they could offer a turnkey MSP solution."

"The product's scalability features could be even better."

"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud. I love Datto, and I know they're on the right path, but I probably would've focused more on the operating system update management. When you go from the desk to the cloud or from the server room to the cloud, everything changes. Everything is different. You're not in control of your servers anymore. It is from the Active Directory management perspective and not from the perspective of zero-day attacks or other similar things. At the time, more focus on zero-day attacks and business email compromise (BEC) would've been a better protection factor than just educating about how many of these attacks have occurred."

"They are now providing the device instead of selling it, while wanting their users to sign a three-year contract, and this is something which my clients don't like...I dislike the fact that signing a three-year contract is required."

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"The automated deployment was a bit complex using the public APIs. When we had to deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP on a regular basis using automation, It could be a bit of a challenge."

"NetApp CVO needs to have more exposure and mature further before it will have greater acceptance."

"I would like some more performance matrices to know what it is doing. It has some matrices inherent to the Cloud Volumes ONTAP. But inside Cloud Manager, it would also be nice to see. You can have a little Snapshot, then drill down if you go a little deeper."

"The solution could be better when we're connecting to our S3 side of the house. Right now, it doesn't see it, and I'm not sure why."

"The support is good in general but the initial, frontline support could be improved."

"One area for improvement is monitoring. Since we are using turn-on and turn-off, based on a schedule, it becomes a little bit difficult to monitor the instance and the replications, etc."

"The data tiering needs improvement. E.g., moving hard data to faster disks."

"Some of the licensing is a little kludgy. We just created an HA environment in Azure and their licensing for SVMs per node is a little kludgy. They're working on it right now."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"As the company grew from business continuity—or what used to be called business BCDR—they brought on services. Certain services, such as SaaS protection, were a value-add, but you would expect to pay for them. They are not going to be free. It is just the life that you live when you're evaluating software vendors, partners, etc. There is going to be some form of a base offering, and then there are going to be different tiers that you need to get up to a better level."

"It is not a cheap solution because we need to pay for the license and pay for Azure resources as well."

"Our licensing is based on a yearly subscription. That is an additional cost, but because of the storage efficiencies that the NetApp gives, even with the additional cost of the NetApp license, you still end up saving money versus straight Azure native for storage. It's definitely worth it."

"Make sure you investigate what your requirements are going to cost you using the native cloud solutions versus what NetApp is going to cost you, to make sure you have a business case to go with NetApp."

"Our licensing costs are folded into the hardware purchases and I have never differentiated between the two."

"The pricing of this solution is definitely higher than what the typical Azure Files and AWS solutions charge, but given the features and the stability NetApp has provided, we are okay with it. We are not complaining about the pricing."

"The AWS consumer-based pricing model makes it easy for developers to use their credit cards to spin up virtual servers immediately."

"If we wanted to use the AWS solution, we would have to manage two or three different platforms and pay more money than what we should have to pay, as some of the features don't even exist. If we wanted to, we could use AWS cloning, but it is useless because it uses more space, is more expensive, and takes more time."

"Overall, the pricing of NetApp is aggressive and the pricing becomes more aggressive as the amount of data increases. The cost for a given volume of data that you are storing becomes lower. The greater the volume of data, the cheaper the license."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Construction Company

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	1

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

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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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I use NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP mostly in customer companies.

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Also Known As

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Datto Cloud Continuity offers a reliable, user-friendly platform for data protection and disaster recovery, focusing on quick backup processes and scalable solutions, ensuring managed service providers are well-equipped against ransomware threats.

Datto Cloud Continuity is designed for backup, disaster recovery, and ransomware prevention. It efficiently manages backups and VM operations through an intuitive web interface. Its compelling data recovery capabilities and competitive pricing make it a valuable choice for MSPs. While the platform exhibits scalability and resilience, improvements are needed in Hyper-V integration, agent reliability, and cloud recovery options. Its pricing model and recovery duration could be optimized. Further enhancements in integration with operating systems and cybersecurity practices are suggested for broader appeal, along with stronger RMM features.

What are the key features of Datto Cloud Continuity?

Web Interface: Simplifies management of backups and VM operations.
Data Recovery: Efficient data recovery processes bolster confidence.
Scalability: Designed to handle growing data needs.
Ransomware Protection: Limits maximum data loss to 59 minutes.

What benefits should users expect in Datto Cloud Continuity reviews?

User Confidence: Built from quick backup and efficient recovery.
Competitive Pricing: Offers cost savings against potential threats.
Device Integration: Links services with ease for MSPs.
Support Attention: Ensures reliable customer support and assistance.

In industry environments managed by ConnectWise, Datto Cloud Continuity acts as a critical part of network operations, ensuring consistent backups of end-user devices and leveraging cloud synchronization for secure storage. Evaluated by companies for cost-effectiveness based on asset value and risks, it functions as a security hub, offering protection against vulnerabilities, including hardware failures.

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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.

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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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