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."The most valuable features of the solution are deduplication and landing zone."
"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."
"One of the main features is the landing zone, it is a particular space where the information is not duplicated."
"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 solution easily integrates with the backup targets, such as Veeam."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"The product's documentation can be made more precise."
"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."
"I would like for them to develop direct cloud integration with a third-party cloud. Direct integration with AWS and other cloud providers."
"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."
"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."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"Needs more SAN support."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
ExaGrid EX Series is ranked 7th in Deduplication Software with 2 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 19 reviews. ExaGrid EX Series is rated 9.4, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of ExaGrid EX Series writes "Good simplicity and scale-out capacity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". ExaGrid EX Series is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce, Quantum DXi Series, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and DD Boost, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and HPE 3PAR StoreServ. See our ExaGrid EX Series vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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