Ease of provisioning: It's very easy to consume the product. We are not doing this manually. We are doing this programmatically, but it's very easy and seamless for us to consume it. It's like any other Azure component. It's very good and well-integrated into the ecosystem of Azure. There is tight integration. 

We didn't need to learn anything new. It feels like we know everything already, although under the hood, the product is something totally different. However, it seemed very easy for us.

It's elastic, so it scales with our demands. We can start small, then with the addition of customer loads, we can expand on-the-fly without the need to reprovision something. 

The performance is quite good, so it's almost on par with the make of SSD storage. It provides a quick, scalable storage solution.

We were looking for a supported solution. We didn't want to experiment. We didn't want to look for open source, though we did look into open source initially before we bumped into NetApp. We figured out that adding yet another unknown into our system was not going to bring us benefit. It would be another problem that we would need to tackle. So, we said, "Okay, let's look for a supported solution," and NetApp was one of them. Then, we turned to NetApp.

The availability is good, meaning downtime or network issues rarely occur. The system also offers flexibility, allowing for increases in data volume, IOPS, and other capabilities without requiring downtime, which is a strong point. Based on the money spent, we can get performance improvements and high availability. 

The simplicity of the setup is definitely one of the key things that we like.

This solution provides decent performance.

One aspect of Azure NetApp Files that I truly appreciate is its remarkable performance capabilities, addressing a common challenge faced by many when using traditional databases. The solution significantly improves performance, particularly evident in the context of an educational facility where we deploy lab environments for students. This allows for smooth tracking of student profiles and provides an enhanced virtual database experience.

• You can scale.
• The response time is very good on Azure NetApp Files. This is important because it solves the problem where we can export our Unix NFS shares with Windows as well as our UNIX clients.

You can change it non-disruptively. You can increase the size and decrease the size online, which is a huge benefit compared to Azure disks. It just works seamlessly. You don't need to stop the instances.

Fast snapshotting: You can back up and restore in seconds instead of hours.

The ease of use and optimization are very high as Azure ensures the complete service operation. It's a SaaS service, so you don't have to configure or manage anything on the hardware. That is a huge benefit for us compared to our own data centers. We migrate several systems or workloads to Azure right now. That extremely simplifies the use for us because we don't have to administrate the storage nodes.

The most valuable features of the solution is replication to another region and the performance.

Since we have NetApp's internally, we use the SnapMirror predominantly for this process in the cloud which is beneficial.

The most valuable feature of this solution is its flexibility.

The speed of this solution is adequate.

The fully integrated Active Directory was exactly what I was looking for.

The critical features of this solution are SnapMirror for replication, data protection, and SnapLock.

Replication is important to us because we are a financial company, and we would like to have a second copy of the data available to use no matter what. Whether we are running on-premises or in the could, we would like to have it available in a different region.

The data protection is important because regardless of the disaster recovery, we were running into a situation where the data is corrupted in both locations. 

SnapLock is used for WORM files, where they are locked for a certain amount of time and nobody will be able to delete them. It is SEC compliant, which is important because we cannot put data onto these systems until the FINRA or SEC compliance is there.

This solution is intuitive, easy to learn, and easy to use.

The most valuable features are the quick spin-ups and spin-downs, ultra-fast SQL backup and restore.

The speed of Azure NetApp Files is incredible. Instead of taking three to four hours to do a back and restore operation of a large database, we were able to conduct it in about 15 minutes.

Its security and ease of use are most valuable.

I like the SnapMirror feature in Azure NetApp Files. It helps me create backups with snapshots and makes data recovery and compression.