Datto Cloud Continuity vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

datto and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. datto is ranked #25 with an average rating of 8.0, while NetApp is ranked #13 with an average rating of 9.0. datto holds a 1.1% mindshare in CB, compared to NetApp’s 0.7% 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.

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Categories and Ranking

Datto Cloud Continuity

Ranking in Cloud Backup

25th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (22nd)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Backup

13th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (2nd), Public Cloud Storage Services (7th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Datto Cloud Continuity is 1.1%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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JasonGrant

Founder at The Automated Method

The vendor offers a complete turnkey solution for managed service providers

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. There are so many IT companies out there because there are so many ways to become a managed service provider. Datto does it all—RMM, security, network hardware, backup—so you could white-label it, come up with some weird logo on Canva, and open a LinkedIn account, then you're a managed service provider overnight.

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Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

Offers advanced features with notable emphasis on innovation

The best features of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP include deduplication, compaction, and autonomous ransomware technology that native cloud storage solutions in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud do not support. Moreover, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows the use of multiple protocols including NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI, whereas native options may only support NFS and iSCSI. Customers already using on-premises NetApp storage such as FAS, AFF, or ASA can experience the same functionality on the cloud with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, which adds significant value. For data protection, customers can take advantage of the Snapshot technology available with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. This technology facilitates data recovery by allowing snapshots to be stored either on the same storage or on a disaster recovery (DR) storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP helps us to take snapshots and store them on the same storage, with options for migration or replication of those snapshots to different storage, including on-premises DR storage or other cloud storage, providing excellent disaster recovery capabilities.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

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

"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 has the capability to scale well."

"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."

"The platform provides a faster backup process."

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

"Lastly, the API and web services are fairly good. That is an important feature too. We write some code to do different things. We have code that runs to make sure that everything is being backed up as we say it is and we try to also detect places where we may have missed a backup."

"One thing I have noticed is that it is very simple to move the data where we need to move it, delete it, or archive it if we need to archive it to StorageGRID."

"There is unified storage, which provides flexibility. It is set up perfectly for performance and provisioning. We are able to monitor everything using a separate application. It provides error and critical warnings that allow us to take immediate action through ONTAP. We are able to manage everything, log a case, and follow up with the support team, who can fix it. That is how it is unified."

"The good thing about NetApp is the features that are available on the cloud are also available on-premises."

"Another feature which gets a lot of attention in our environment is the File Services Solutions in the cloud, because it's a completely, fully-managed service. We don't have to take care of any updates, upgrades, or configurations."

"The most valuable features are tiering to S3 and being able to turn it on and off, based on a schedule."

"In terms of administration, the portal which provides the dashboard view is an excellent tool for operations. It gives you volume divisions, usage rates, which division is using how much data, and more. The operations portal is fantastic for the support team."

"The tool's most valuable features are the SnapLock and SnapMirror features. If something goes wrong with the data, we can restore it. This isn't a mirror; we store data in different locations. If there's an issue on the primary site, we can retrieve data from the secondary site."

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Cons

"The fact that Datto Cloud Continuity is not cheap is one of the aspects that I don't like about the product, making it an area where improvements are required."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"We are getting a warning alert about not being able to connect to Cloud Manager when we log into it. The support has provided links, but this particular issue is not fixed yet."

"In the next release, I would like to see more options on the dashboard."

"I would like to see them improve the perspective of start and search in the panels. This would allow for better visualization of the contents that are captured in the tool."

"When Azure does their maintenance, they do maintenance on one node at a time. With the two nodes of the CVO, it can automatically fail over from one node to the node that is staying up. And when the first node comes back online, it will fail back to the first node. We have had issues with everything failing back 100 percent correctly."

"I would like this solution to be brought to all the three major players. Right now it's supported only on AWS and Azure. They should bring it to Google as well, because we would like to have flexibility in choosing the underlying cloud storage provider."

"Multipathing for iSCSI LUNs is difficult to deal with from the client-side and I'd love to see a single entry point that can be moved around within the cluster to simplify the client configuration."

"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."

"Not a perfect ten because it's not very efficient with upgrades and management."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was good, but it was a test system, not a real purchase."

"They allow a special price if you are working closely with them. Since we have a lot of NetApp systems, we got some kind of discount. That's something they do for other customers, not just for us. The price was fair. In addition to the licensing fees, you're paying Amazon for your usage..."

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

"It is expensive. There are no costs in addition to their standard licensing fees."

"They have a very good price which keeps our customers happy."

"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."

"Compared to other storage vendors, NetApp, is not always able to compete with their pricing. Yet, we acknowledge the ease of use ONTAP brings with the AWS integration."

"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

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Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Datto Cloud Continuity?

The product's initial setup phase is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Datto Cloud Continuity?

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

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What needs improvement with Datto Cloud Continuity?

The fact that Datto Cloud Continuity is not cheap is one of the aspects that I don't like about the product, making it an area where improvements are required.

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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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?

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP does have a bit of initial complexity for users who are new to the system. Although it isn't overwhelmingly complex, first-time users may find it challenging until they b...

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Also Known As

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs is much more than just cloud backup. MSPs can protect clients’ Windows-based computers from downtime and data loss and more importantly, rapidly recover data if disaster strikes.

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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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