I recommend Dell PowerStore to some of my customers, but usually the differences are taken care of. I focus primarily on NetApp AFF C-Series and am dealing with all series of NetApp AFF. Regarding the impact of NVMe protocol support on customer workload access, NVMe products are also good and NetApp has a higher focus on that as well. The all-flash system performs well with large-scale analytics and delivers pretty good performance. However, you have to size it properly, as everything depends on how you size the solution. I rate this review an eight out of ten.
Senior Storage Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
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Feb 18, 2025
Overall, from one to ten, I would rate NetApp as an eight. As for additional advice, I suggest that NetApp provide more training opportunities. If customers are purchasing a significant volume of NetApp solutions, it would be beneficial to offer complimentary training, as it would aid in the overall development of the team.
All-Flash Storage solutions provide fast and reliable storage capabilities by using solid-state drives, catering to enterprises that demand high-speed data access and improved performance.
These storage systems are designed to eliminate the latency and reliability issues often associated with traditional HDD-based storage. They deliver consistent low-latency performance and are capable of handling demanding workloads, such as high-frequency trading, big data analytics, and large-scale...
I recommend Dell PowerStore to some of my customers, but usually the differences are taken care of. I focus primarily on NetApp AFF C-Series and am dealing with all series of NetApp AFF. Regarding the impact of NVMe protocol support on customer workload access, NVMe products are also good and NetApp has a higher focus on that as well. The all-flash system performs well with large-scale analytics and delivers pretty good performance. However, you have to size it properly, as everything depends on how you size the solution. I rate this review an eight out of ten.
Overall, from one to ten, I would rate NetApp as an eight. As for additional advice, I suggest that NetApp provide more training opportunities. If customers are purchasing a significant volume of NetApp solutions, it would be beneficial to offer complimentary training, as it would aid in the overall development of the team.