NetApp FAS Storage Arrays

NetApp FAS Storage Arrays

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
NetApp FAS Storage Arrays	Score10 out of 10	N/A	NetApp's FAS series systems offers a storage array system for enterprises.	N/A

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	NetApp FAS Storage Arrays
Considered Both Products	NetApp Verified User Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays We selected NetApp back in 2011 before looking at Pure. I took a look at Pure several years ago just to compare. They do appear impressive and I might seriously consider them if we were deciding today. However, NetApp just seemed to have a much more mature product than Pure … Incentivized Helpful? Adam Paradis Virtualization Administrator in Information Technology at University of Maine System (Education Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays NetApp FAS is very agile compared to other similar products. It especially caters to NFS and does it expertly. Compellent, Clariion, and EqualLogic all boast similar overall functionality but lag behind in innovation such as a full HTML5 web UI without the installation of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays Dell EMC PowerScale is [a] good product, however, the product is not good with small files; even after enabling the small file efficiency, the product did not perform well. However, [the] NetApp FAS series gave us the results we expected in our performance testing; after … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer in Information Technology at Azusa Pacific University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays We had chosen NetApp FAS series because of its high performance, deduplication, manageability, and backup features. Although I have been able to use these NetApp FAS series features, the implementation of them has not worked as well as with other storage providers. There was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays NetApp stacked nicely and gave enterprise-level usability for snapshot-based backups. Our previous RPO was several hours. It was selected prior to me arriving at the company, but It was selected for the hardware refreshes due to its compatibility with several other vendors, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays Like most other unified solutions, NetApp excels in one particular area, unstructured data. Whilst it can, and does support the presentation of block-based volumes, I do not view it as a strong suit for NetApp. When comparing to other products, the two Unified products that I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays NetApp is a truly unified solution, with a single OS to manage both SAN and NAS workloads. Both the legacy EMC solution we had in place and the 3PAR + Storeasy solutions used a server host backed by SAN LUNs to provide NAS workloads. It works but adds some complexity and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays We had used a Dell EMC product before moving to the NetApp. This was in combination with a tape drive array. The drastic improvement in moving to the NetApp was incredible. Our backup maintenance time was shortened to next to nothing. No more tapes. No more running out of space … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays Only other SAN we used before this was an EMC CX300 that was used for around 8 years. It was ok in that it didn't have major issues, just some bad drives here and there, but the interface and setup of it were horribly difficult. Incentivized Helpful? Albert Buendía IT System Engineer in Information Technology at Uriach (Pharmaceuticals, 501-1000 employees) Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays NetApp is best as a Windows file server virtual machines alternative and is perfect as a native CIFS server. We backup with NMDP protocol. Pure Storage is the winner for virtual machine storage with its incredible performance. Incentivized Helpful? Vin Campbell IT Director in Information Technology at Sahadi Fine Foods (Retail, 11-50 employees) Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays We ultimately went with the NetApp FAS series based upon the recommendation of our trusted reseller. The device implementation fit directly in with the bigger infrastructure plan/rollout we were in the middle of. However, I did my due diligence when researching the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays We once relied on EMC and and IBM for storage. Over the years we have transitioned to NetApp for all our storage needs. The main reason we have liked NetApp FAS is due to the many options and standardized management capabilities from one pane of glass. We don't have to buy 3-6 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays Over the years we have consumed pretty much all industry storage solutions. Over the years we have used all major vendors and many start up storage vendors. The main reason we have liked NetApp FAS is due to the exhaustive capabilities and standardized management capabilities … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetApp FAS Storage Arrays This provides very fast backup and restore speeds when compared with its counterparts Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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	NetApp FAS Storage Arrays
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (3 ratings)