They provide licenses upon purchase, so there's no need for additional licenses. Regarding additional expenses apart from the standard licensing fees, such as for support or maintenance, there aren't any. Updates take around twenty to thirty minutes, including rebooting the systems, and we haven't faced any problems with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays. We utilize various other storage solutions like Fujitsu, IBM, and Dalian SIP, but NetApp EF-Series stands out as we've had no issues throughout the entire year of usage.
The pricing of the solution is expensive, considering the initial investment required. Considering the life cycle of NetApp, the initial investment is high if you buy it for five or seven years. At the end of the product's life cycle, it could get cheaper, but the initial investment in NetApp makes it one of the most expensive solutions.
Price-wise, NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is costlier than Dell. You have to buy a lot of licenses separately. The licensing model of NetApp is not intuitive enough.
Information Technology Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2022-01-05T07:23:05Z
Jan 5, 2022
The cost of our license is approximately $200,000 over three years for NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays. There can be additional costs for storage. For example, if you want to have eight terabytes.
In terms of the cost, I do not handle the price or the payments at all. I can't speak to how much the solution costs or what the licensing structure is like.
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System Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees
Real User
2021-03-18T16:14:18Z
Mar 18, 2021
They need to improve its pricing. The storage market is dying. So, they need to improve the price because it should reach all people. NetApp is one of the top ones, and they are charging a little bit of royalty as compared to other storage solutions.
We are not talking about using this for all of our data storage, as that can be very expensive. We have singular pricing for the solutions we use. Vendors who provide all-flash storage have singular pricing that depends on a couple of factors.
The NetApp EF560 all-flash array is an all-SSD storage system for applications that demand extremely high levels of performance and reliability. Requiring just 2U of rack space, the EF560 all-flash array combines extreme IOPS, microsecond response times, and up to 12GBps of bandwidth with leading, enterprise-proven availability features.
If one is cheap and ten is expensive, then I'd rate the pricing a three.
They provide licenses upon purchase, so there's no need for additional licenses. Regarding additional expenses apart from the standard licensing fees, such as for support or maintenance, there aren't any. Updates take around twenty to thirty minutes, including rebooting the systems, and we haven't faced any problems with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays. We utilize various other storage solutions like Fujitsu, IBM, and Dalian SIP, but NetApp EF-Series stands out as we've had no issues throughout the entire year of usage.
The pricing of the solution is expensive, considering the initial investment required. Considering the life cycle of NetApp, the initial investment is high if you buy it for five or seven years. At the end of the product's life cycle, it could get cheaper, but the initial investment in NetApp makes it one of the most expensive solutions.
Price-wise, NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is costlier than Dell. You have to buy a lot of licenses separately. The licensing model of NetApp is not intuitive enough.
The cost of our license is approximately $200,000 over three years for NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays. There can be additional costs for storage. For example, if you want to have eight terabytes.
In terms of the cost, I do not handle the price or the payments at all. I can't speak to how much the solution costs or what the licensing structure is like.
They need to improve its pricing. The storage market is dying. So, they need to improve the price because it should reach all people. NetApp is one of the top ones, and they are charging a little bit of royalty as compared to other storage solutions.
Most of my customers pay for the license on a yearly basis. It can be expensive depending on the capacity number.
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is an expensive product.
This solution is not available to many users because the cost is very expensive.
This is an enterprise-level solution and the costs are very high. Adding more capacity will increase the cost.
We are not talking about using this for all of our data storage, as that can be very expensive. We have singular pricing for the solutions we use. Vendors who provide all-flash storage have singular pricing that depends on a couple of factors.
The pricing of this solution is competitive with other vendors here in Egypt.
The prices are average but in the last year we bought three of these and it was expensive.
Our license is fully integrated now, so we don't have any additional payments. We do use volume cryptography, but I believe it is free.