We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and performance."
"IBM FlashSystem has been stable in our operations."
"Stability-wise, this solution is fine."
"The performance of the All-Flash System is very good. There is more enhanced performance and data production in the solution, which I appreciate."
"The speed, performance, and stability are the best features of IBM FlashSystem."
"We are a 100% satisfied with the stability of the solution."
"The solution is scalable and has varying degrees of scalability."
"The initial setup is straightforward and can be done in an hour and a half by one person."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"Fast Snapshots"
"It is a scalable solution."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"NAS stability"
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"It was not proactive communication."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The deduplication and compression ratio is not very good. It's not reaching a very high ratio."
"The product needs to improve their scalability."
"Cloud file sharing is an area that needs improvement."
"The marketing could be improved."
"Product support is restricted to IBM only. It must be decentralized to IBM partners as well."
"They can improve its initial configuration. The initial configuration is currently very difficult. There are multiple choices or alternative ways to configure based on the use case and what you are targeting out of the device, that is, more capacity or more performance. These multiple alternatives cause a lot of confusion. They should increase the processing part of the nodes. Currently, you can cluster up to eight nodes. From my experience and the workload that I am facing in my environment currently, I would like to see either a bigger or stronger node or a larger number of nodes that can be clustered together. We formally communicated to them that we need to see either this or that, and they are working on something."
"Include an option to upload the support package to the IBM ECuRep when opening an IBM PMR."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"The WAFL is slow."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"The product should improve its user experience."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 98 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and HPE StoreEasy. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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