NetApp ONTAP Reviews

NetApp allows a lot more ease to conduct business, especially with the customer. In our organization, a lot of solutions may seem simple, but we have to get through the hoops. For government security reasons, it is very hard to find solutions, and NetApp has done a very good job at being IL6 compliant. They have made it easier for us to be compliant with our customers.

It allows us to speed up processes that normally would take days. That is the way we currently use it. We are still looking into other ways we could use it, but right now, it allows us to transfer and move data extremely faster than what we were doing before. It is at least 60% to 70% faster.

Right now, we are only using ONTAP. It does everything we need, so I would rate it a ten out of ten. The whole point of our project and the team I lead is that we wanted to be able to move data from a ship back to shore. With ONTAP, we are able to do that extremely fast, especially based on the way we were doing it before.

We are a manufacturing company with a mixture of physical systems located at manufacturing plants worldwide. We primarily have a presence in AWS for cloud regions where we utilize and integrate NetApp ONTAP.

The key reason for implementing NetApp ONTAP was full integration globally and cloud connectivity. Prior to moving to NetApp ONTAP, we were all on-prem. With NetApp ONTAP, we have seamless integration with the cloud regions globally.

We were previously struggling internally for DR purposes. We used to replicate data between internal physical locations. With cloud connectivity and seamless connection from on-prem to the cloud utilizing NetApp ONTAP, DR is certainly one of the big challenges that we closed.

There might be multiple use cases in my company, but in my specific area, we are using it for doing asynchronous sync between the production and the DR servers. We have a financial trading system that needs to have a common storage space so that the servers we are running can access the same storage in the HA mode, which is the high-availability mode of the Artemis and FIX engines. We are using NetApp storage to be accessed by those servers.

It is perfect for the requirements we have. For our product requirement and our users' requirements, it is one of the perfect network storage solutions we are using. It's reliable, synchronous, and we are not losing any data when using it. That is the main requirement we have as of now for our product.

It was a replacement for the SRDF system. NetApp ONTAP gave us the benefit that we could have a single storage, single mount across all three servers, and they all could write to that location and read from there. That was the immediate benefit we saw, but the synchronization of the messages was very much the same as what we were using before in SRDF. I cannot speak about the performance metrics, but in the last seven years, we have never seen any downtime. We never saw any issues when doing the DR failovers. We have not lost even a single message, and access and everything else is very much in our control.

I work at an educational institute that conducts medical research. We use NetApp for unstructured storage, including both SMB and NFS file shares. In the past, we have also used it for SAP and for Fiber Channel presented storage, specifically for Oracle databases. It is mainly for unstructured storage and research data.

It meets our needs by providing the necessary shares to store our data. It is reliable, fast, and always available when needed. It is also very flexible regarding provisions. It helps to serve our storage needs.

It had been a successful solution for the end-users. They were very happy with the solution that was implemented as it resolved all their issues.

It helped to speed up the delivery. Earlier, if it took around 30 minutes to do a task such as copying some data or doing any content editing, post-implementation of NetApp, and improvement in our network infrastructure, overall activity time was reduced to 10 minutes.

A key challenge for our organization was to speed up the process for media files. It took a longer time to transfer or do any kind of activity on media files. Post-implementation, we were able to speed up our processes on the media files. Although the media file sizes were quite large, NetApp was able to speed up accessibility to those files.

At the time we finalized NetApp, there were a couple of things that were impacting. The size of the data was increasing very quickly, so we wanted a device that was easily expandable without much modification. NetApp fulfilled that requirement, wherein we were able to double the size of the solution without any major impact on the network.

Security played a major role in finalizing the product. The ONTAP technology was quite stringent while creating partitions and in other such scenarios so that the data is fully secured and not accessible without permission. It is also quite difficult to crack the solution. From a security point of view, NetApp was a good solution as it had an OS that was quite unique.

The stability and performance of the solution have provided optimized results as expected. 

My use case for NetApp ONTAP is for backup purposes. I was taking a course on NetApp ONTAP through Udemy where I learned about taking backups of infrastructure services and performed practical exercises.

The best features of NetApp ONTAP include its good UI. When planning to take backups at night, the process is faster. It is best for data services and snapshot cloning experiences.

I am working on cloud development while on contract with a big organization. We utilize NetApp extensively as part of our cloud storage strategy throughout the enterprise. We use NetApp ONTAP quite a bit in both PoC type projects and production. We are managing petabytes of information and a worldwide cloud in multiple data centers.

NetApp ONTAP enables us to deliver services to customers predictably, which is crucial in our line of business.

Implementing NetApp ONTAP is a very important part of our storage strategy. We could see the benefits of NetApp ONTAP immediately upon implementation, but all clouds essentially work the same. You charge for space, but you get over-allocation and deduplication that save space, which is how the company generates revenue.

It is hard to pinpoint which NetApp technology delivers the most value, but currently, most of our business relies on block volumes, focusing on the ability to create these volumes with features such as encryption at rest, encryption in transit, and various data organization and compression capabilities.

We have successfully implemented encryption in transit using TLS, which is a standout outcome that may not be commonly supported by competitors in the vendor space.

I used NetApp ONTAP to provision storage resources for stakeholders in the environment.

What I appreciate the most about NetApp ONTAP is that the customer service is great and documentation is also great.