"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"This product has good performance."
"The ability to do SnapMirror or SnapVault for data resiliency and backup."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and level of technical support."
"The technical support is fantastic. No one else is like their team. We're happy with them."
"The features that I found most valuable are SnapMirror and SnapVault; these provide DR and backup for data redundancy."
"The most valuable feature of NetApp AFF is the reputation of the company."
"We found AFF systems very competitive in terms of performance, storage efficiency, feature richness, and scalability."
"Setting up storage for an application (storage provisioning) is quick and easy. Maybe a quarter of the time is now spent getting the application up and running, or even less."
"I like some basic features like Snapshot, FlexClone, and advanced features such as SnapMirror, and SnapVault. They also recently enhanced the market with Cloud Volumes ONTAP. I think that NetApp is a very good product."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"A lot of the tools that are built into the stock, ONTAP operating system, instead of having to buy the add-ons and things."
"FC and ATTO bridges are still needed for cross datacenter replication."
"It would be better if they just improved the performance of the system."
"Implementation needs to be improved."
"We have had trouble with restoring applications, and if there is more support for application-aware backups then that would be great."
"I think adding more features to make it more cloud enabled will help us with cloud tiering and simplify the whole cloud operations when it's integrating with our on-prem AFF products. That is one area where we would like to see more improvements from NetApp."
"There is room for improvement with the user interface. There are a few things that cannot be done in the GUI. We do a lot of things through the CLI, but that's grown out of a lack of ability to do them in the GUI. An example is QTrees. You can manage them within the GUI, but the GUI is missing a few options."
"Another issue is that for smaller customers, NetApp doesn't have enough disk sizes. You begin with a 980-gigabyte disk and the next size is 3.8 terabytes. There aren't any disk sizes in between. Competitors have more choices in disk sizes."
Earn 20 points
INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN while NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 280 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, VMware vSAN and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, 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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