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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"We like the data reduction rates. That has been really helpful. You get 4U of Pure storage replacing something like two racks of spinning disks. One of the things that has contributed to that are the data reduction rates."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload."
"Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable."
"We use it for our VDI environment, and have not had any complaints with it."
"The management software is very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance of the database access."
"Compared to Dell Unity XT, what I see as an advantage in NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is the fact that it is more scalable...The performance of the product is good."
"The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"It's actually shaking hands with the workflow solutions much better than any other storage."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"Better integration with other brands is important so we would like to see it easier to integrate."
"This solution does not have any compression or deduplication."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"There could be better integration with some of our Cisco products."
"I would like to shrink it more, if we can. The smaller, the better."
"Their problems are on the software and the controlling of the storage where they lack segmentation and federation."
"We have used IBM previously. We found that the storage from IBM was poor and we chose NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays because it can scale very easily."
"Better support technicians for CAPP."
"It has to be flexible according to the customer's requirements. It has to be aligned with the customer business and the business environment."
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NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is ranked 34th in All-Flash Storage. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6, while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System writes "Has a fantastic feature-set and works well with workflow solutions". NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera, whereas Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is most compared with Dell Unity XT.
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