NetApp AltaVault is an expensive solution. There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution, which comes to around 3,000 USD.

In one use case, and we have several, to run for a particular customer, the price is about $375,000 a year. They've been doing it for four years.

It's not expensive. Its cost is fair. 

You can have set up a subscription. You can do the payment like that. The payment model is completely different from region to region and partner to partner. Sometimes we can take it as facilitation from our side as an investment with the customer and we can make it monthly as well. It depends, however, mainly, it's set up as a SaaS service with monthly payments.

The one price includes everything. Usually, when you receive the quotation, everything is there. It's divided up and the various aspects are written there. These are essential things in the initial quote.

It's quite cost-effective.

Cloud-base will pay AWS by the minute, but then with AWS, it's an Excel-based decision. I am worried it has become more cost effective to built it yourself, so building something around a storage grid or something like that.

I'm in the middle at the minute of evaluating if it is cheaper to put on AWS or is it cheaper to go build it yourself? That's something I'm looking at.

You could compare it to a Dell EMC or ECS, and I think it's probably a little less costly than that. Within the marketplace, it's a medium cost.

The pricing of the solution is reasonable.

It is a rather expensive program.

The pricing is not too bad, but could be a little better.