We performed a comparison between ExaGrid EX Series and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a solid and a quite simple solution, which is a good combination. The customers like the simplicity and its scale-out capacity. They like the support pricing, and even the extension capacity pricing, a fixed price, which the executive is offering in Czech market."
"The most valuable features of the solution are deduplication and landing zone."
"One of the main features is the landing zone, it is a particular space where the information is not duplicated."
"The solution easily integrates with the backup targets, such as Veeam."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and data deduplication. It's extremely easy to use and does a very good job of data deduplication and compression."
"The tool has improved backup and recovery times. One of the key features contributing to this improvement is the landing zone and deduplication retention zone. When data is in the landing zone, the process is fast, ensuring smooth backup and recovery operations at high speeds. However, the process becomes slower for long-term backups moved to the retention zone due to fragmentation. So, if the data is older than a few days, the speed may be limited, especially for non-deduplicated data in the landing zone."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"One of the most valuable features offered is double-parity RAID, which guarantees that your data will stay intact. We're also able to provision storage and monitor which ones are really consuming storage."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The product's documentation can be made more precise."
"The one place where we are sometimes losing the opportunity with ExaGrid is that a few customers still require a fiber channel connectivity, which is not always possible."
"When speaking about a scale-out, you want to have better equipment. You cannot just add a disc to the foreign equipment. You have to buy another one and put it together, like parallel."
"The solution could improve by switching to a flash-type solution rather than the spinning drives that they currently use. However, we have not had any failure with the spinning drives. The flash-type drives are more up-to-date and are something that is in their roadmap."
"The tool reduces storage footprint. However, clients are now storing data for longer durations with increasing requirements to retain backups for longer periods, particularly as a defense against ransomware attacks. As a result, the retention zone with duplicated data is experiencing more demand, leading to space constraints. This necessitates using higher-end, more expensive models to address the issue."
"I would like for them to develop direct cloud integration with a third-party cloud. Direct integration with AWS and other cloud providers."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"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."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
ExaGrid EX Series is ranked 7th in Deduplication Software with 6 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews. ExaGrid EX Series is rated 9.0, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of ExaGrid EX Series writes "Integrates well, reasonably priced, and provides high level support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". ExaGrid EX Series is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Quantum DXi Series and DD Boost, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our ExaGrid EX Series vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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