"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"This product has good performance."
"The tool has lowered latency."
"Speed, reliability, ease of use are the most valuable features."
"The benefits of being on AFF are the phenomenal speed at which we're able to ingest data and index it, and the IOPS."
"The speed, inline deduplication, and compression are really nice. It's also just easy to manage. We use Snapshot and SnapMirror offsite, which give us some good recovery options."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, so we get more out of our storage. The replication is also important."
"The performance is outstanding when it's all Flash. That's the biggest bang for the buck that we get."
"Performance is excellent. In fact, it's so fast that we're not really even taxing it all that much."
"AFF has opened our eyes in a different light of how storage value works. In the past, we looked at it more as just a container where we could just dump our customer dBms and let the customers use it in terms of efficiency. Today, to be able to replicate that data to a different location, use that data to recover your environment or be able to have the flexibility with the solution and data. These are things which piqued our interest. It's something that we're willing to provide as a solution to our customers."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"We have had issues with CIFS presentations and outages, so if that was removed, we could do seamless upgrades without affecting CIFS presentations. That would be an advantage. That's about the only improvement I can think of."
"The ONTAP S3 implementation is not feature-complete as compared to StorageGRID. We had to move our lakeFS instance from ONTAP S3 based on AFF to StorageGRID."
"NetApp could focus even more on the configuration."
"The certification classes are good, but they don't cover enough of the material, and the exams only test on what is covered in class."
"This is an expensive solution that could be cheaper."
"The system is pretty stable but most of the ONTAP versions are not really stable. There have been multiple bugs in different ONTAP versions."
"With some of the larger clusters being able to do a patch upgrade is helping. They still take three, four hours by the time you get the night started, finish things up, do the upgrade."
"I would like them to roll in global monitoring instead of having to buy another product for it."
Earn 20 points
INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN while NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 281 reviews. INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0, while NetApp AFF is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp AFF writes "Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency". INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, Dell XtremIO and VMware vSAN, whereas NetApp AFF is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Pure Storage FlashArray and VMware vSAN.
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