Dell Storage Resource Manager vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

"It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."

"It's all about ease of use and reliability."

"The partitions function well for backup storage."

"It is easy to control the storage."

"Once we gathered and saw what we were doing with everything, we saved close to a petabyte worth of data by being able to delete old data and move stuff around. Thus, we became more efficient."

"The most valuable feature is definitely the reports, the complete analysis of the data. We also like the scalability, since it can work with Hitachi, Isilon, etc."

"I am very happy with the stability. When your customers don't notice anything wrong, that's the biggest win for a product."

"Being able to immediately look at my data. See the sizing, where I'm at on different virtual machines."

"Scalability: If you're from a large enterprise, it's easy for us to go into customer environments and pull the data out. It's very security-friendly."

"OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications."

"The most valuable feature is the security. When we identify a vulnerability, it is easy to mitigate it. NetApp provides the solution. It's also easy to create and move volumes."

"This gives me better performance numbers and gives me more information about where my loopholes are, where I need to target my customers, where I need to go back and retain storage."

"Technical support is inadequate."

"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."

"The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."

"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."

"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."

"The UI: They have been growing and changing. There's been some growing pains with that, but they are moving into the new HTML5 interface, which is fantastic."

"From 7-Mode to C mode a migration happened and many features, like FTP and SFTP, were dropped. We have been using it, but there needs to be better communication when features are dropped because there are end users using it who might find it a shock: "Oh, why was that dropped?""

"You can build those out, but initially when you bring up the dashboard, that was one thing they couldn't take away. They couldn't change that. It just looks kind of kludgy. I'd like it to look a lot more clean when I first login."

"OnCommand Insight lacks AI to protect against ransomware and identify users accessing things abnormally."

"When we first went to Cluster Mode, we had a lot of problems. Setup took a few months. We had people onsite, including one of the top guys from NetApp for a while. Going from 7-Mode to Cluster Mode was rough."

"NetApp OnCommand Insight is a pretty good tool, and the only concern I have with it is the price. Its price is quite high and could be improved because the licensing feature of this particular tool is on a per GB basis instead of the price being for the complete tool itself. The more you discover, the more you need to pay, and this makes NetApp OnCommand Insight more costly when compared to other tools which are available in the market."

"I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."

"There are no licensing costs for this product."

"The solution is mid-priced."

"The company has saved money by narrowing down issues faster using servers and performance."

"The cost: It is expensive as a solution. You need to be an expert to get anything out of it and we don't have that kind of expertise."

"Pricing by terabytes, not the end of the world, and that's okay. Stop if I want this, I have to buy that. Just release it as a single product."

"We just made a major investment back in May of this year, so we'll have it for another four and a half or five years easily. Thus, we have a five year bumper to bumper agreement."

"We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."

"Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."

"For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."