# Data Infrastructure Management Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Data Infrastructure Management Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Database products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/118936/Cloud-ONTAP/reviews --- # Data Infrastructure Management Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on March 13, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. Independent research methodology Capterra’s researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology. 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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Data Infrastructure Management ## What is Data Infrastructure Management? Software to allow users to improve storage efficiency by remotely controlling digital infrastructure. ## What is Data Infrastructure Management used for? [Cloud Security](https://www.capterra.com/cloud-security-software/)[Database](https://www.capterra.com/database-management-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 15 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Contact vendor for pricing Free trial available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Data Infrastructure Management?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=http://www.netapp.com&name=Data Infrastructure Management) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Data Infrastructure Management 4.5 (15) VS. [4.6 (1,567)](https://www.capterra.com/p/170018/ManageEngine-Desktop-Central/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price $795 Per User, Per Year Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.1 (15) Ease Of Use 4.5 (1,566) Value For Money 4.1 (15) Value For Money 4.5 (1,420) Customer Service 3.9 (15) Customer Service 4.4 (1,411) ## Data Infrastructure Management alternatives [4.6 (386)](https://www.capterra.com/p/179288/Patch-Manager-Plus/reviews/) Starting price $245.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 96% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.6 (85)](https://www.capterra.com/p/148729/Workato/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars Highest Rated [Cloudflare](https://www.capterra.com/p/155191/Cloudflare/) [4.7 (517)](https://www.capterra.com/p/155191/Cloudflare/reviews/) Starting price $20.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 96% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/155191/Cloudflare/) [Symantec Endpoint Security](https://www.capterra.com/p/227396/Symantec-Endpoint-Protection/) [4.4 (548)](https://www.capterra.com/p/227396/Symantec-Endpoint-Protection/reviews/) Starting price $39.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 89% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/227396/Symantec-Endpoint-Protection/) [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/118936/Cloud-ONTAP/alternatives/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. Access Controls/Permissions 4.5 (2) 100.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems API Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Data Replication Process of copying and storing data in more than one site or node Monitoring Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user Data Infrastructure Management 4 features Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Process of copying and storing data in more than one site or node Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user Get Advice We can help you find the software with the features you need. Features 4.3 (15) 4.3 Based on 15 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.1 (15) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial available Value for money 4.1 (15) 4.1 Based on 15 reviews Connect with a Capterra advisor for a free 15-minute consultation Get a personalized software list aligned to your business needs with guidance from our expert advisors. Our team has helped 1 million+ businesses like yours find options that fit their needs. ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 3.9 (15) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 3.9 (15) 3.9 Based on 15 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.5 Based on 15 reviews Filter by rating 5(9) 4(5) 3(1) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent Sarthak P. Module Lead - NetApp Admin, CMA Information Technology and Services ### "Review Based on Administration of NetApp's Data Infrastructure Management" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 December 20, 2022 We can manage Cloud and on premises Storage with an ease. Also, controlling the systems is pretty accurate we you have a huge environment to manage. Pros Well it provides us with good monitoring and adaptive sensitivity to manage all the resource which we have with netapp. Cons Well, as of now I did not find any con as I have been using and administrating the product from a long time. NetApp support is also very good on this product. It is a value for money product to purchase. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Security Sr. Manager Building Materials ### "Customer workflows are missing if you are looking to implement across the enterprise" 3.0 Overall Rating 3.0 3.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 2.0 2.0 Likelihood to Recommend 5/10 November 17, 2021 Helped us meet our needs of the engineering department Pros Good support and good custom runbooks that we were able to deploy across the engineering functional teams Cons Poor documentation available on their support portal, Also wish there were better security focused workflows out of the box Reasons for choosing Data Infrastructure Management Good account relationships and cost Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Systems Administrator Information Technology and Services ### "Rubust Enterprise Flash Storage" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 August 28, 2020 NetApp is a very robust enterprise storage system, easy to manage and delivers very low latencies. Pros Product very easy to use and manage. Product very easy to setup and configure. All flash systems reduce latency and increase IOPs. Excellent storage efficiencies (snapshots, deduplication, compaction, compression). System is cloud ready. Cons Improvements should be made to integration with other storage systems. Switched from [Dell EMC NetWorker](https://www.capterra.com/p/166860/Dell-EMC-NetWorker/) Delayed customer support. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. JG Jeff G. IT Manager Wholesale ### "NetApp is great!" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 April 7, 2020 ONTAP is an excellent storage management solution, but what really makes NetApp shine is their support. I've been thrilled with NetApp's support. Pros It works; it does what I need it to do, and it's relatively intuitive, if you're not afraid of a command line. Cons There's not much I don't like about my NetApp. It sits in the corner doing its thing, and ONTAP doesn't need much handholding. I do have to update it every now and again. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. PP Proby P. Sr. Enterprise Storage Engineer Financial Services ### "Great feature sets in ONTAP 9 " 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 January 21, 2020 Solving many different business problems such as capacity and performance growth of databases (ORCL via dNFS, SQL over iSCSI.) Also remaining on-prem exchange workloads are better managed via SnapCenter. And NAS (CIFS/SMB, NFS) are better from a deployment standpoint. Pros Great new feature sets. Advancements in Storage efficiencies (Deduplication, compression, compaction.) Move to aQoS (Adaptive QoS) feature sets. Looking forward to implementing FlexGroups and FabricPools. Also interested in learning the new AIQ-UM tools enhancements and service design features to match both performance and capacity. The new long-term support model is also great! Cons You must upgrade to 9.5 before upgrading to 9.6. Also, you can't upgrade from OCUM 9.4 direct to AIQ-UM 9.6. Also, AIQ-UM 9.7RC1 and WFA 5.1RC1 are released so soon after 9.6P1 and 5.0.1 released. NSLM i(NetApp Service Level Manager) s not a mature product and needs to be more enterprise ready before we deploy it. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Joby K. Senior Storage Engineer Computer Hardware ### "Netapp Cluster Engineer/User" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 April 2, 2019 Storage allocation/monitoring. Pros Ontap software is user friendly, easy to customize and set up alerts Cons Older version wasn't as user friendly, cluster mode version is much better. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Network Administrator Restaurants ### "OnTap is a great interface for your SAN" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 April 1, 2019 We use OnTap to manage our Netapp SANS Pros OnTap is easy to use to setup and manage any NetApp SAN. It's intuitive and quick and easy to deploy more storage. Cons It uses Adobe Flash which sometimes crashed when using it. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. JH James H. Network Administrator Information Technology and Services ### "NetApp OnTap is crucial for our daily business" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 January 15, 2019 My overall experience with NetApp OnTap has been great. When it was implemented we consolidated geographically dispersed storage systems into several NetApp clusters in 2 datacenters. Having all of our data manageable in one pane of glass has been great. Pros OnTap provides great tools for managing and administering our storage infrastructure. The best feature is the OnTap Unified Manager which puts all of your storage information in a single pane of glass. Cons When using OnTap, there is a learning curve if you are coming from other storage providers such as Dell or HP. It was not very easy to get right into and figure out, but NetApp does offer training to help with this. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User MIS Manager Telecommunications ### "Good Storage System" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 2.0 2.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 December 13, 2018 Pros Work well so far with intensive IOPS load. Running VDI on this storage and there is no IOPS bottleneck Cons Expensive solution and software add-on can cause a bomb. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Administrative Coordinator Non-Profit Organization Management ### "Great storage, too complicated" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 September 20, 2018 Pros A lot of features, very efficient, saves money Cons very hard to set up and configure, moderate learning curve. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Supervisor of Network Administration Mining & Metals ### "Versatile but challenging" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 2.0 2.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 5/10 September 9, 2018 Stable & versatile, but you need to have an advanced degree to administer or monitor. Pros NetApp has always risen to the top of the list in terms of versatility and reliability. We’ve always appreciated having the options to connect to our data however we need (CIFS, iSCSI, NFS), and over the 6 years we’ve had it in operation, it’s been extremely stable & reliable. Cons Administration has been a challenge. Their On Command dashboard has improved over the years, but still leaves much to be desired. Not very intuitive, and can be difficult to navigate. You need a separate VM for performance monitoring, and it is also cumbersome to use. And our worse frustration is system upgrades. Through their support website, you can generate a detailed upgrade guide, but it’s 28 pages long, full of dozens of complicated CLI commands. It should not be this difficult. Other vendors have one click upgrades. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Technical Consultant ### "The Ontap OS is great. Very simple and easy to use" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 0/10 May 30, 2018 Pros Creating flex clones is a great help in test or development environments. Also a great way to quickly and easily restore data Cons compared to other storage vendors Netapp is not always able to compete with the pricing that they have to offer Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. SC Stefan C. Systems Administrator Education Management ### "We use ONTAP to support our Virtual Machines in our school district" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 March 27, 2018 Provides the needed flexibility for our VM environment Pros Nice user interface. Stable product. Recovery using snapshots a big plus. Flexibility in volume creation for unix and windows environments. Cons Cumbersome navigation to some of the configuration parameters . Learning curve somewhat steep on some functions. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Chris L. Sr. UNIX Systems Admin Computer Software ### "I have been administrating Netapps storage servers for nearly 20 years." 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 March 7, 2018 Pros It just works! Sold stable predictable performance and availability. Consistent time proven upgrade paths. Cons The need for "forklift" upgrades as hardware approaches and of life. High support costs that increase drastically at the end of the initial contract period. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Adrian M. Senior Storage Engineer ### "NetApp is a flexible storage that is easy to use" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 February 1, 2018 easy data management Pros the rapid recovery of data by using snapshots, the new data management by using fabric pool and the integration with all the tools that they provide Cons the low marketing ans specifically that sometimes in price NetApp can't compete with another major storage brands Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. ## Top-rated software of 2026 ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox. 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