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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NetApp AFF A-Series

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ANetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.N/A

    StoneFly SAN Appliances

    N/AN/AStoneFly SAN solutions feature standard iSCSI configuration and (optional Fibre Channel SAN target) support serving small, medium and large enterprises as primary or secondary storage, main data center, remote and branch offices.N/A
    Pricing
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesStoneFly SAN Appliances
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    Pricing Offerings
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesStoneFly SAN Appliances
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesStoneFly SAN Appliances
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    NetApp
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    StoneFly Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesStoneFly SAN Appliances
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of NetApp AFF A-Series and StoneFly SAN Appliances
    Feature
    NetApp AFF A-Series
    8.3
    8 Ratings
    8% below category average
    StoneFly SAN Appliances
    -
    Ratings
    Flash Array Performance9.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration9.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Compression6.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades8.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Simplicity8.98 Ratings00 Ratings
    Power Savings8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Dell Compellent (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    NetApp FAS Storage Arrays
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Pure Storage FlashArray
    Score10 out of 10
    HPE 3PAR StoreServ
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesStoneFly SAN Appliances
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NetApp AFF A-SeriesStoneFly SAN Appliances
    Likelihood to Recommend
    NetApp
    Easy interface and the accessibility of the features are effective and this solution functionalities on data migration and processing of different from other packages is amazing. NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays is the most secure platform for easy management of all the business and project data and the capacity planning tools and even the configuration options are the best and easy to use.
    Incentivized
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    StoneFly Inc
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    Pros
    NetApp
    • Protective multiple project and business data is excellent.
    • Solutions for data storage and data migration.
    • Providing useful and quality data reports is effective.
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    StoneFly Inc
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    Cons
    NetApp
    • Cost is still prohibitive for performance.
    • Performance tuning at the Fabric Interconnect level.
    • Automation and scripting improvements in the PowerShell module.
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    StoneFly Inc
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    Usability
    NetApp
    Our organizations primary storage platform is NetApp AFF-A900 nodes. All our storage requirements, be it storage visible to our compute either using FC or NFS is through these nodes. The shares or CIFS too are setup on these nodes. We also use the fabric pool to write the data to NetApps Storage Grid
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    StoneFly Inc
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    Alternatives Considered
    NetApp
    I have been an IBM and EMC storage customer. I used EMC CX and VMX series SANs. I have used IBM Shark SANs before that. Much has changed over the years. It is my experience that Netapp has shown a great deal more innovation with large leaps in technology, ease of use and an aggressive progress while the two other vendors that I have experience with are more tied to their legacy technologies.
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    StoneFly Inc
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    Return on Investment
    NetApp
    • ROI has been tremendous as it has come in handy in all the scenarios we were looking at
    • Users and admins both happy with the overall performance and management is happy that they got a good deal from reseller.
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    StoneFly Inc
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