We performed a comparison between NetApp FAS Series and Panasas ActiveStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."The solution is stable."
"The product is flexible."
"The best feature is its ONTAP product line for Ransomware protection. It also has features for file storage and block storage. The solution is stable. We've had no issues with it. The tool is scalable and meets our requirements. The technical support and the supporting partner are great. The initial setup is straightforward. It is very easy to maintain the product. The feature set is excellent. I recommend the solution."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"I am impressed with the tool's performance and bandwidth."
"We've found the product to be quite flexible."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The product must support more drives."
"We have received complaints from customers that the tool is not easy to use. The tool's local technical service is slow. The solution is good for Linux customers and not for customers with other operating systems like Windows. The solution should provide storage without client software integration."
"The solution is quite expensive."
NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 96 reviews while Panasas ActiveStor is ranked 13th in NAS with 2 reviews. NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8, while Panasas ActiveStor is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Panasas ActiveStor writes "A stable solution with good performance and bandwidth". NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Panasas ActiveStor is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon).
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