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“High Stability and Market Support Balanced By Vendor Lockin and Cost Issues”
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NetApp is a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software, and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloudlike experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services, and applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere.
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Stability in both standard operations as well as in upgrade paths Broad support by external consultants in the market Easy day to day management of the systems Support from netapp engineers (not consultants from service providers), both incident based as well as consultancy, is always excellent, to the point and correct
easy process, long relationship
Strong Centralised Management with tools such as ActiveIQ for monitoring performance, capacity and health across multiple clusters. Diverse compatibility across many platforms and interfaces such as NFS/SMB/CIFS/iSCSI/Fibre channel/NVMe and even S3. Very user friendly with exceptionally strong knowledge base
Too expensive Vendor lockin due to different aspects: - the fact that you never renew the complete system but parts expire lifetime on different points in time - licensing cost that limits for example S3 autotiering options (another vendor requires an expensive license) to Netapp in combination with MC - backup efficiency drops a lot if you don't use snapvault or snapmirror to move data between storage clusters and this is not compatible with other vendors Late to add anti crypto features
Prise negotiation windows was limited
High Maintenance / Support costs for NetApp contracts. Premium support tiers can add even more expenses. Not all options are available through the GUI - fine tuning of the system can require considerable knowledge of the CLI which is a definite learning curve. Costly to expand physical storage - this can require additional shelves or even upgrading of controllers which can be a large capital expense.
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- IT Manager50M-1B USDHealthcare and BiotechReview Source
High Stability and Market Support Balanced By Vendor Lockin and Cost Issues
Stable, performant, allows to scale according the needs, broad market support, expensive, vendor lockin - IT Associate50M-1B USDTransportationReview Source
NetApp Delivers exceptional reliability, proactive support, and transparent expertise, ensuring optimal performance and customer confidence
NetApp is excellent and always supportive of our needs. They demonstrate a strong commitment to customer success with timely assistance and proactive monitoring. Through advanced tools like Active IQ they ensure optimal runtime of their products and are knowledgeable and honest in its implementations and maintenance. - ENGINEERING MANAGER50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Seamless Data Management Features With Flexibility for Hybrid Cloud Environments
The first and foremost thing is its exceptional performance for enterprise workloads, especially database and VMs. Extremely low latency with all flash NVMe drives. Perfect choice for enterprises needing speed, scalability and advanced data services. ONTAP management software is mature and feature rich and easy to use. Most importantly it has the Reliable data protection and snapshot features. - It Associate<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Centralized ONTAP OS Supports Varied Workloads But Expands With Additional Appliances. Predictive disk failure is a huge plus!
Diverse possibilities of block storage, being it iscsi, nvme, archives nfs/smb / objects s3 varieties. Centralized ONTAP OS allows control the different types of workloads. - IT Associate10B+ USDMiscellaneousReview Source
A reliable partner and great hardware where uptime is the core of your business.
Netapp continues to deliver time and time again for our sites. Reliability is generally excellent, their tech team is first rate and front-line support staff are qualified enough to solve the majority of operating issues.