2019-06-23T09:40:00Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays?

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Mir Gulzar Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-12-27T10:22:07Z
Dec 27, 2023

If one is cheap and ten is expensive, then I'd rate the pricing a three.

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2023-10-18T09:37:00Z
Oct 18, 2023

They provide licenses upon purchase, so there's no need for additional licenses. Regarding additional expenses apart from the standard licensing fees, such as for support or maintenance, there aren't any. Updates take around twenty to thirty minutes, including rebooting the systems, and we haven't faced any problems with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays. We utilize various other storage solutions like Fujitsu, IBM, and Dalian SIP, but NetApp EF-Series stands out as we've had no issues throughout the entire year of usage.

Enric Cuixeres - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-08-17T10:00:24Z
Aug 17, 2023

The pricing of the solution is expensive, considering the initial investment required. Considering the life cycle of NetApp, the initial investment is high if you buy it for five or seven years. At the end of the product's life cycle, it could get cheaper, but the initial investment in NetApp makes it one of the most expensive solutions.

RP
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2023-08-14T07:29:04Z
Aug 14, 2023

Price-wise, NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is costlier than Dell. You have to buy a lot of licenses separately. The licensing model of NetApp is not intuitive enough.

SA
Real User
2022-01-05T07:23:05Z
Jan 5, 2022

The cost of our license is approximately $200,000 over three years for NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays. There can be additional costs for storage. For example, if you want to have eight terabytes.

SS
Reseller
2021-03-23T22:42:56Z
Mar 23, 2021

In terms of the cost, I do not handle the price or the payments at all. I can't speak to how much the solution costs or what the licensing structure is like.

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SS
Real User
2021-03-18T16:14:18Z
Mar 18, 2021

They need to improve its pricing. The storage market is dying. So, they need to improve the price because it should reach all people. NetApp is one of the top ones, and they are charging a little bit of royalty as compared to other storage solutions.

AO
Real User
2021-02-27T06:57:25Z
Feb 27, 2021

Most of my customers pay for the license on a yearly basis. It can be expensive depending on the capacity number.

IT
Real User
2020-10-04T06:40:32Z
Oct 4, 2020

NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is an expensive product.

MY
Real User
2020-02-09T08:17:01Z
Feb 9, 2020

This solution is not available to many users because the cost is very expensive.

CS
Real User
2020-01-12T12:03:00Z
Jan 12, 2020

This is an enterprise-level solution and the costs are very high. Adding more capacity will increase the cost.

VP
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2019-09-19T08:39:00Z
Sep 19, 2019

We are not talking about using this for all of our data storage, as that can be very expensive. We have singular pricing for the solutions we use. Vendors who provide all-flash storage have singular pricing that depends on a couple of factors.

YA
Real User
2019-09-15T16:43:00Z
Sep 15, 2019

The pricing of this solution is competitive with other vendors here in Egypt.

MC
Real User
2019-08-29T08:53:00Z
Aug 29, 2019

The prices are average but in the last year we bought three of these and it was expensive.

it_user1013601 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2019-06-23T09:40:00Z
Jun 23, 2019

Our license is fully integrated now, so we don't have any additional payments. We do use volume cryptography, but I believe it is free.

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