NetApp AFF Use of Solution

Anna Sofo - PeerSpot reviewer
Commercial adviser at Personal Data S.r.l. Gruppo Project

We first implemented NetApp AFF in 2016. 

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Mir Gulzar Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Synergy Computers

We have been selling NetApp Storage Systems for the last 10+ years as a partner/reseller.

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Tyrell Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Pikeville Medical Center Inc

I've been using it for less than a year. We've had it at our company for years, but I've been working with it since March. 

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NetApp AFF
March 2024
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Alistair Kennedy - PeerSpot reviewer
Lifecycle and Data Insights Manager at Computer Concepts Limited

We have been using NetApp AFF for quite some time.

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MR
Sr. Technology Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We've been using NetApp since I joined the company six years back.

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SaneeshC - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. engineer at Sify Technologies

We have been using NetApp AFF for the last three to four years.

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Naveen Radhwani - PeerSpot reviewer
Head IT at TO THE NEW Digital

I have been using NetApp AFF for eight to ten years.

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WK
Chief AI & Full Stack Systems at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The lab that I am developing has used NetApp AFF and NetApp storage for about two years, but I know that our organization, in general, has been using NetApp for storage for a long time.

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Richard Lozano - PeerSpot reviewer
VP, IT Operations at ZOO Digital Group plc

We have been using AFF for seven years. 

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Pedro Paz - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Eni Energies et Services

I have been using NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) for the last year. 

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EO
System Administrator at Haaretz

I've used the solution for eight years.

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Mangalam Amriish - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Consultant at Techwave.

I have been using NetApp AFF for almost four years.

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PN
Sr. Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I've been using NetApp AFF for about four years, but before that, I had a professional service background. In total, I have approximately eight years of experience.

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KT
Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I have been working with NetApp AFF for seven years.

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PS
Lead Infrastructure engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

I used NetApp AFF for six years.

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KD
Storage Engineer at a religious institution with 10,001+ employees

I've been using the solution for six years. 

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Chuck Custard - PeerSpot reviewer
Exec Director - Global IT Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've been using NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) for about five years.

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SG
Storage Engineer at Missile Defense Agency

We have been using this solution for about three months

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SS
Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I've been using NetApp AFF since 2016.

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JT
Manager, Data Center Services at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using it for approximately four years. 

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RaffaeleBrescia - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and System Administration at Simac BE ICT

I have been using NetApp AFF for two years.

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SG
IT Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using it for seven years now.

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RN
Storage at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

I have used NetApp AFF for almost 10 years. 

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ParthaBhattacharyya - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Department of Defence, Australian Government

I've been using this product for several years. 

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CD
Sr Linux SysrAdmin at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I've been using the solution since 2012.

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NK
Sr. System Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees

I have been using NetApp AFF for about eight years.

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MB
Senior Storage Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I have been using NetApp AFF for almost two years.

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HS
Enterprise Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I've been using the solution for eight to ten years. 

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SA
Director of the Projects Department at ALPIX

I have been using NetApp AFF since the beginning. I have worked with NetApp for more than 10 years.

We are a distributor, so we install a lot of storage for many customers. I have worked with all the models, including the AFF C190 and C220, the FAS8020 and 8040, the AFF A300, the AFF 700, and the biggest was an AFF A900.

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EK
Principal Storage Architect at Marvell Technology Group

I have been using NetApp for thirteen years.

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VinceVitro - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have used NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) within the past 12 months.

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JC
Senior Unix Storage Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

One to three years.

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SP
IT Manager at TELUS Corporation
One to three years. View full review »
MV
Data Center Engineer at Belimed

We have been using the solution for one and a half years now.

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BH
Cloud Storage Engineer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

We've been using NetApp AFF since 2019.

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RA
Director, IT Infrastructure Services at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We purchased it over a year ago. However, we really started using it several months ago. We had originally set it up in our old data center, then we decided to move it to our new data center before using it in production. It has been up and running for six or seven months.

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MA
Chief Information Officer at Mt. San Rafael Hospital
One to three years. View full review »
KL
IT Operations Manager at Idaho State Insurance Fund
More than five years. View full review »
RA
Lead Technician at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

We have had this solution for three years. 

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DA
CTO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I've been using the solution for about five years.

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DR
Storage Administrator at Sensa ehf.

As a company, we have been using AFF for around six to seven years.

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TC
Infrastructure Architect at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have been working with the product since 2017. 

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RV
Manager, Storage Engineering at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I have been working with NetApp AFF for five years. 

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HM
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have been using NetApp AFF for the past six years.

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BP
Storage Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Less than one year. View full review »
JM
Network Storage Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I've been using NetApp AFF since 2007.

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MD
AWS Solutions Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We have been using NetApp AFF for the last five years.

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JG
Vice President Data Protection Strategy at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've been using the solution for a while. 

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VK
Storage Architect and Engineer at United Airlines

I have been using NetApp since 1998.

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it_user351162 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Butchers Pet Care

We've been using it for three months for VMs, SQL, file storage, email, some Oracle databases, and SharePoint.

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Justin Mardis - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

I have used NetApp AFF for around 10 years.

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PS
Service manager at VST ECS

We have been using the solution for five years.

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it_user527322 - PeerSpot reviewer
NAS Team Lead at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Started in 2014, using a FAS8080 with all SSD storage.

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MD
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have used NetApp AFF since it came out. My company has been a NetApp partner since 2004, and we were using the FAS systems before, but we started selling AFF to our customers as soon as it was introduced. 

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SM
Storage Administrator at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have been using this solution for ten years.

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it_user1035522 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees
One to three years. View full review »
RC
Head of IT at Inacap
Less than one year. View full review »
it_user750723 - PeerSpot reviewer
It Manager at HSBC

We've had All Flash installed now for coming up to two years. I think it was February, 2016 that we put in the first All Flash array.

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it_user527136 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I've been running the AFF systems now for over a year.

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SJ
AIX and Storage Specialist at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using this solution for almost two years.

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it_user527157 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr IT Specialist II at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I've been using AFF Flash for about eight months; we tested it 12 months ago.

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it_user352176 - PeerSpot reviewer
Core Infrastructure Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

We've been looking at it and talking about it for probably about three months. We've ordered it, and it's in the data center now. We've got the kit, it's just not in production. We'll hopefully deploy and put it into production this year.

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BM
Head of Infrastructure, Network & Security Management at Vos Logistics N.V.

I have been working with the solution for 16 years.

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VS
Storage Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have been using this solution for about one year.

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GR
Principal Engineer at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

One to three years.

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PK
Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I have been using NetApp AFF for eight years.

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LN
Solutions Consultant at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have been using NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) for more than three years.

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it_user577449 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Biomedical System Services at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
More than five years. View full review »
it_user527175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have been using it for about a month.

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it_user527319 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Administrator - Storage at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We’ve been using it for six months. It's fairly new.

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GR
System Administrator at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using the NetApp AFF A400 system for the last three months.

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DC
Tech Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We've been using NetApp for the last 15 years.

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TA
Chief Enterprise Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
One to three years. View full review »
GW
Senior CI Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
One to three years. View full review »
PH
Executive director IT Systems at MemorialCare Health System
One to three years. View full review »
it_user527364 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Global Storage at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I’ve been probably using it for a good nine months. We had some thorough testing and looking at what workloads we can fit on it. Then, we've been through a six-month install process. That's an internal thing for us.

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it_user220509 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. System Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It was installed about a year ago, and the full workload was deployed around March of 2016.

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AS
Solution Architect at Prow

I have been working with the solution for more than five years. 

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it_user527175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We've been using AFF for file shares for about 14 years now.

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TG
Systems Engineer at a individual & family service with 1,001-5,000 employees

They have been very solid so far, in the five months that I have used the product. I have not seen any outages and their support is outstanding.

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CW
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

I have used AFF for three or four years.

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BS
IT Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

I have been using the solution for seven years, although I am in the process of switching off of it right now.

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it_user750564 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Admin 3 at Grant Ham University

We have been a NetApp customer for many years, so we had all SATA/SAS drives before. Just last year, we got the All Flash FAS system. Every year, it gets better.

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it_user527271 - PeerSpot reviewer
Exchange Administrator at Albuquerque Public Schools

We’ve had it for something like a year and a half.

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it_user346323 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Manager at OUTSCALE

We're in the process of starting a partnership, and we've been a client for five years.

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PS
Storage Administrator

I have been using the product for five years. 

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AH
Storage Architect

I have been using the product for six years. 

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ME
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Still implementing.

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it_user527109 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Admin at Greater Harris County

I have been using NetApp for about three years.

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it_user202125 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Storage/System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have used it for one year.

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it_user527169 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Storage Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been using it for three months.

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it_user331992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We’ve used it for one year now.

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RS
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
More than five years. View full review »
DB
Technical Director at CUSTOMERTIMES CORP
More than five years. View full review »
it_user732744 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Dhaka Bank Limited
More than five years. View full review »
it_user527355 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been using it for six months.

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it_user527358 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a media company with 51-200 employees

We have been using it for 6-9 months.

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it_user352080 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data Center at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have two devices, and have been using them for two weeks so far. We use it for VDI and Citrix. At the moment we are thinking of putting other workloads onto them.

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it_user351144 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Grand Consult

We've been using it for four months in a multiple system environment with a lot of small writes. This was installed for an SAP HANA system as the persistency layer.

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AD
Senior Storage Engineer at HYUNDAI AUTOEVER AMERICA

We have been using NetApp products for a while.

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RC
Head of IT at Inacap
More than five years. View full review »
it_user352137 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Group IT Service at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We've used it for about three months for Oracle EW and VMware. We have it with 50TB flash and an SSD shell.

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it_user351210 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We've been using it since March for our functional testing and QA. We use our Netapp AFF in a cluster mode setup in combination with a flashpool NetApp. This Netapp cluster is used to serve our QA environment. Whenever we have machines which demand high IO or low latency we move them into the Netapp AFF volumes.

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CO
IT Manager at Universo Online
EC
Cyber Security Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Less than one year. View full review »
it_user527064 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Intalock Technologies

Probably about two or three months.

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it_user750705 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at George Fox University

I've been in charge of NetApp for three years.

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it_user352293 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Coordinator Storage/Backup at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've used it for two months.

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it_user352155 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've been using it for the past four months or five months with lots of clinical applications that deal with healthcare, and VMs with SQL.

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it_user351168 - PeerSpot reviewer
R&D IT Admin at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've been using it for about six months for low latency and critical loads.

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AB
Consultor and Co-founder at OS4IT

I have been using this solution since 2012.

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it_user750639 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Storage Engineer at Providance Health Services

We have been using it for eight months.

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it_user527337 - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter, NOC & IT Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We've had it for about a year; possibly a little more. We've pretty much just done a proof of concept on it until right now. Right now, we are rolling our databases onto it.

We're using UCS for front end, and because we need the speed, we're spinning up databases with all the data on AFF.

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it_user527181 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using it for almost one year.

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it_user353367 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager Infrastructure & Operations at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've used it since April or May.

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it_user351156 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Ahd Hellweg Data GmbH & Co. KG

We've been using it for six months to help run VDI, server virtualization, OLTP databases, date warehouse, and mail subsystems.

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it_user346131 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've used it for three years. We're currently running VDI on it with ONTAP.

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it_user331812 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Systems Integrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We've been using NetApp products for 15 years.

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SS
System Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees

I have been using this solution for a few years. I am using NetApp FAS AFF A300.

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JS
Senior in technology and engineer at a marketing services firm
Three to five years. View full review »
it_user731157 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Business Partner at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Probably six months.

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it_user750561 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Admin at Bay View Financial Trading
it_user750672 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Sys Admin at a tech services company

I have personally used NetApp for 15 years now. A long time.

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it_user351189 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Architect at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

It's not yet in full production, but I have been testing the product for few month now with VMware.

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it_user351153 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator for Storage and Virtualization at Eurofins

We've used it for about a month with different applications for laboratory software.

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it_user351150 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Specialist at Fujitsu Sweden AB

We've used the 8080 for eight months and the 8060 for two months. They're used mainly for VMware products and SQL databases.

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BT
CTO at Pronet Security
Three to five years. View full review »
it_user527295 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Storage Administrator at Mentor Graphics

We've only had it in production a short time. We've had it a total of about six months.

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it_user353979 - PeerSpot reviewer
First ICT manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We installed it in July.

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it_user531243 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We have been using the solution for about six months.

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it_user527097 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been using it for six months.

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it_user750633 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Admin

Over five years.

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it_user351183 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've been using it for one-and-a-half months with 1,500 VMs exclusively as the VMware backend. It's a mix between Windows and Linux-hosted OS. We've been running clustered Data ONTAP since April 2014.

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it_user1013601 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at ICTeam
Three to five years. View full review »
it_user346356 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We bought it recently and use it for BI and partially for SAP. We are planning on implementing ONTAP.

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it_user797502 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
One to three years. View full review »
it_user472458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

For 8 months now.

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it_user352125 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix & Storage Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've been using it for two months.

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it_user550308 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Analyst at Ativas Data Center

For three years.

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it_user527400 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I’ve been using it for about nine months. But, as I’ve mentioned, we haven't migrated all that workload yet, so we haven't put it to the full test.

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it_user176532 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supercomputing Specialist at a tech company with 51-200 employees
it_user521703 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Director Division of IT at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

I’ve been using this for at least 5 years.

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it_user352320 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We've been using it for three months, including the proof of concept.

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MO
Consulting Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using AFF since its release.

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it_user352065 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT System Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We've used it for three to four months for OLTP and our Oracle database.

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RR
COO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
One to three years. View full review »
it_user352113 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Automation Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We've been using it since September.

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it_user351201 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've used it for six months for our Oracle databases.

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it_user489189 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Engineer (3rd level) at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Since October 2015 (10 months).

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Buyer's Guide
NetApp AFF
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about NetApp AFF. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.