HPE File Storage and Object Storage vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Storage category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #21, while NetApp is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.5. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 1.5% mindshare in CS, compared to NetApp’s 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 17, 2024

HPE File Storage and Object Storage and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP both compete in the storage solutions market. Users favor NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for its scalability and integration features, while HPE File Storage and Object Storage are preferred for cost-effectiveness and simplicity in management.

Features: HPE File Storage and Object Storage are praised for their flexibility, capacity to handle large volumes of data, and seamless integration with existing infrastructure. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is highly valued for its comprehensive data protection, performance optimization, and hybrid cloud capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Users highlight that HPE File Storage and Object Storage could benefit from enhanced analytics and monitoring tools, as well as improved support for higher workloads. For NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, there are calls for more streamlined updates and better cost transparency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE File Storage and Object Storage are often praised for their easy setup process and reliable customer support. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is commended for its smooth deployment in hybrid environments and strong technical support team.

Pricing and ROI: HPE File Storage and Object Storage offer competitive pricing, with users noting a quicker ROI due to lower setup costs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, while more expensive initially, promises a significant ROI due to its enhanced features and performance benefits.

To learn more, read our detailed HPE File Storage and Object Storage vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Report (Updated: September 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

HPE File Storage and Object...

Ranking in Cloud Storage

21st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File and Object Storage (26th)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Storage

8th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (3rd), Cloud Backup (28th), Public Cloud Storage Services (11th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of HPE File Storage and Object Storage is 1.5%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 4.7%, down from 10.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Storage Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	4.7%
HPE File Storage and Object Storage	1.5%
Other	93.8%

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Featured Reviews

Luiz Gasparelo

Owner at Lnetwork

Has robust security features ensuring data protection, and clients benefits from fast access to integrated data

The best features of HPE Cloud Object Storage include easy management, scalability, and unified access to both object and block storage. Security measures are robust, ensuring data protection, and clients benefit from fast access to integrated data across different platforms like Cisco, Microsoft SQL, and Palantir in a unified view.

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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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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The best features of HPE Cloud Object Storage include easy management, scalability, and unified access to both object and block storage. Security measures are robust, ensuring data protection, and clients benefit from fast access to integrated data across different platforms like Cisco, Microsoft SQL, and Palantir in a unified view."

"It is a good product and I recommend it to other people and organizations who are exploring it as an option."

"This is a scalable solution that is available when we need it."

"One of the features offered and used by many clients is file-sharing."

"The feedback from our clients is that it is very stable, they are very happy with it, and updates are completed on a regular basis and well documented."

"Replication to the cloud is the most valuable feature. Deduplication and compression are also very important to us. We are in the process of adopting to the cloud. We are going to AWS and we are trying to do a safety technician call out with integration to the cloud. NetApp allows us to move some of the volume to the cloud, at the same time that we continue providing the cloud services that we have on premises."

"The storage tiering is definitely the most valuable feature... With respect to tiering, the inactive data is pushed to a lower tier where the storage cost is cheap, but the access cost is high."

"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are good. Snapshot copies are pretty much the write-in time data backups. Obviously, critical data is snapshotted a lot more frequently, and even clients and end users find it easier to restore whatever they need if it's file-based, statical, etc."

"NetApp's Cloud Manager automation capabilities are very good because it's REST-API-driven, so we can completely automate everything. It has a good overview if you want to just have a look into your environment as well."

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

"I would recommend NetApp any day, at any time, because there's so much hard work in it."

"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."

"I highly recommend that customers using native cloud storage from hyperscalers transition to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP as it offers numerous features and functionalities such as inline deduplication, compression, compaction, autonomous ransomware protection, snapshot technology, and flex cache that are unavailable with other hyperscalers."

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Cons

"Our customers in Canada cannot use it because it has to be compliant in the same country."

"Technical support is not available locally for us."

"The biggest disadvantage to this product is the technical support and pricing."

"At present, the initial setup is slow."

"I have used technical support and it's mediocre."

"We have used technical support. As long as they don't call me at four o'clock in the morning to tell me that a drive failed and they are sending me another one, I like it. They have a tendency to do that."

"The only area for improvement would be some guidance in terms of the future products that NetApp is planning on releasing. I would like to see communication around that or advice such as, "Hey, the world is moving towards this particular trend, and NetApp can help you do that." I do get promotional emails from NetApp, but customer-specific advice would be helpful, based on our use cases."

"We have customers that are still using IBM mainframes and that very old SNA architecture from IBM. There are questions about how you interconnect the data on the mainframe side... But I don't know if it's worth it for NetApp to invest in developing products to include mainframes for a few customers."

"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."

"I would like to see more aggressive management of the aggregate space. On the Cloud Volumes ONTAP that we use for offsite backup copies, most of the data sits in S3. There are also the EBS volumes on the Cloud Volumes ONTAP itself. Sometimes what happens is that the aggregate size just stays the same. If it allocates 8 terabytes initially, it just stays at 8 terabytes for a long time, even though we're only using 20 percent of that 8 terabytes. NetApp could undersize that more aggressively."

"It definitely needs improvement with respect to clustering and with respect to more collaborative integrations with Azure. Right now, we have very limited functionalities with Azure, except for storage. If CVO could be integrated with Azure that would help. When there is any sort of maintenance happening in the cloud, it disrupts the service in Cloud Volumes ONTAP."

"The dashboard is a little bit clunky. I like to see it a little bit more on the simplistic side. I would like to be able to create my own widgets and customize what I want to see a little bit more versus what is currently there. That would be helpful so that when I log in, I go straight to my widget or my board without going to multiple places to get to what I need to find or build."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing is based on a per terabyte basis."

"HPE Cloud Object Storage is competitively priced and offers a good value for its solution. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."

"Pricing is middle of the road, but it seems that it should be less expensive."

"The deal with the seller was acceptable; the pricing is reasonable."

"For enterprise customers, it's a very cost effective. But in the SMB segment, yeah, pricing is a little bit challenge for your time."

"The pricing could be improved. It is a good product, but it is very expensive for me."

"I know the licensing is a bit on the high-end. That's when we had to downsize our MetroCluster disks and just migrate to disks that were half used. We migrated into those just to reduce maintenance costs."

"For NetApp it's about $20,000 for a single node and $30,000 for the HA."

"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."

"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

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Media Company

Construction Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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

HP Cloud Object Storage

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

HPE File Storage and Object Storage offer robust data management designed for scalability and flexibility, enhancing enterprise operations with efficient data handling.

This storage system supports enterprise growth by providing adaptable and performant data solutions. With seamless integration and management capabilities, it allows organizations to streamline data workflows across distributed environments. Offering both file and object storage solutions, it ensures secure, consistent, and efficient data accessibility, catering to modern data demands.

What are the key features of HPE File Storage and Object Storage?

Scalability: Easily expand storage capacity to meet increasing data volume needs.
Data Protection: Advanced security to safeguard sensitive information.
Integration: Effortlessly integrates with existing IT environments for smooth operations.
Performance: Optimized to deliver high-speed data access and processing.

What are the expected benefits and ROI from implementing HPE File Storage and Object Storage?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces operational costs through streamlined management.
Improved Productivity: Enhances data availability and access speeds for users.
Security Assurance: Provides peace of mind with strong data protection measures.

HPE File Storage and Object Storage are implemented in industries such as healthcare and financial services, where data integrity and quick access are critical. In healthcare, it stores and protects patient records, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations. In finance, it enables secure transaction data management, supporting efficient and reliable financial operations.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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.

NetApp

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