NetApp FAS Series Other Solutions Considered

TW
Senior Storage Administrator at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

I am a NetApp administrator. We are looking for a data classification and data governance tool, and we've already got some in-house, but we're just looking at multiple products. So I'm literally just doing research.

However, we do have a vendor, and they are going to put together a demo for us.

We support AFF NetApp. So AFF and SaaS systems. And we also have CIFS, and we do have a little bit of FAS and AWS. So we're a NetApp shop.

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EA
Manager, System at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We are using Dell because it is more feasible to use.

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Martin Sandell - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Engineer at Basefarm

I have worked with similar systems from some Microsystems in the past, but that's about it.

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it_user527190 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a marketing services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We also considered EMC at that time and HPE. For what we needed, NetApp was the best one.

The most important criteria we look for in a vendor is good service and quality of the product.

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RS
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.

We evaluated the HP and Dell storage solutions before choosing this product.

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MohamedAmr - PeerSpot reviewer
Infra Business Development Manager at GBM

NetApp FAS series solutions have advantages over their competitors because they support multi-protocol, all the levels of the software, such as duplication, compression, and replication. It is an all-in-one solution, the customer does not require to have multiple solutions to get SAN and NAS environments.

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it_user3396 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at Tata Consultancy Services
PM
ICT-I Manager at KTDA

Before choosing this product originally, we evaluated others and were ultimately impressed by the Snapshots, ShapVault, and SnapRestore features. These were what we really wanted, and at the time, we could not find another product that had similar capabilities.

We had been using NetApp for quite some time, but the equipment was quite old and we wanted a new system. Between NetApp and HP, we chose HP because the NetApp support is not very good. They used to have partners in the country, but they have left.

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WC
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We have almost all vendors in our portfolio: EMC, Pure Storage, etc. 

As our stand up, we use NetApp because we are pleased with it. Other vendors have good ideas, but they are not yet implemented in NetApp, hopefully that will come one day.

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it_user281973 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage and VMware Expert at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Ye I did, but I didn't find another solution that could centralize all the protocols into one box without an appliance.

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it_user527118 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are looking at Pure Storage. We have looked at and discarded an EMC option. That's why I recently attended a NetApp conference. We were looking to see the next level of the NetApp All-Flash FAS.

We rejected the EMC option because we had an EMC piece of gear in-house that had a failure. It continued to operate, like it's supposed to. The problem was that the part on the piece of EMC gear that failed could not be replaced without causing downtime. It might as well have just caused the downtime initially. We have migrated everything off of that. It was a stupid little thing. It wasn’t like the backplane failed; it was a stupid little thing. I would not recommend it, and we will probably never go with EMC again.

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it_user354033 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner Storage at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

That was a long time before I joined the company.

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it_user614595 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Network Administrator at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees

No other solutions were evaluated at the time. Actually, this system was familiar to use and fulfilled the business demands.

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it_user515505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
SV
Software & Services Advisor at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Long time NetApp customer, very happy with the solution.

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it_user310452 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
it_user351141 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

No other options were evaluated.

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it_user3396 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at Tata Consultancy Services
it_user829644 - PeerSpot reviewer
Berater with 11-50 employees

For file servers, one alternative is Microsoft using standard Microsoft Windows Servers. Another solution is Huawei OceanStor; with the latest, version 5, they support mouse functionality.

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it_user352242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Technician at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

When we deployed flash cache, there was no alternative for it. It was the only available cacheing solution.

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it_user520506 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

No, we did not. We were given direction from the University.

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NetApp FAS Series
March 2024
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