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INFINIDAT InfiniBox vs NetApp AFF comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

INFINIDAT InfiniBox
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise SAN (9th)
NetApp AFF
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
320
Ranking in other categories
All-Flash Storage (2nd), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Solutions solutions, they serve different purposes. INFINIDAT InfiniBox is designed for Enterprise SAN and holds a mindshare of 2.7%, up 2.2% compared to last year.
NetApp AFF, on the other hand, focuses on All-Flash Storage, holds 10.6% mindshare, up 9.3% since last year.
Enterprise SAN
All-Flash Storage
 

Featured Reviews

GM
Jan 4, 2022
Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved
The primary use case for this product is high-performance storage This product has good performance. It is similar to the Dell PowerMax and Pure Storage FlashArray. The InfiniBox has three active controllers. The response time for read requests can be improved. It is not as good as the solution…
Anna Sofo - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 15, 2023
Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency
We recommend NetApp for all our clients that have traditional infrastructures with two servers and some companies that are in manufacturing or the public sector. We have many different experiences with NetApp NetApp AFF has helped our clients simplify their infrastructure while delivering high…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"This product has good performance."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"The speed, inline deduplication, and compression are really nice. It's also just easy to manage. We use Snapshot and SnapMirror offsite, which give us some good recovery options."
"This solution has reduced our data center costs because when we went from the 8000 and 3200 series that took us from 20 racks of storage down to two."
"I'm from Germany, so we have lots of metro clusters. The ability to have two sides that are redundant across hundreds or thousands of kilometers is critical for our customers. We have several hundred customers with metro cluster systems, so that is one of the best features."
"We have SQL clusters across the United States. It has sped up our IOPS and made it a lot easier for users."
"Technical support is good."
"This solution makes everything a lot faster. The time to move data around, boot and migrate VMs is much faster."
"NetApp's cloud-based PaaS has been a massive help for unstructured data."
"Setting up storage for an application (storage provisioning) is quick and easy. Maybe a quarter of the time is now spent getting the application up and running, or even less."
 

Cons

"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"I would like to see NetApp improve more of its offline tools and utilities."
"There is room for improvement with the user interface. There are a few things that cannot be done in the GUI. We do a lot of things through the CLI, but that's grown out of a lack of ability to do them in the GUI. An example is QTrees. You can manage them within the GUI, but the GUI is missing a few options."
"The only downside to NetApp AFF is its price."
"I honestly don't have anything of note on how they can improve."
"To get the performance in Azure has been a challenge. We're moving everything to Azure."
"A graphical user interface displaying efficiency metrics, such as compression and deduplication rates, would be a great addition."
"NetApp can help in these endeavours by focusing more on security."
"We would like to have more behavioral reporting."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license covers any feature and also, the future features are already included. It is as easy as a 1, 2 and 3."
"The best features come included without any additional cost."
"I understand the cost is less than many other storages of same/similar performance benchmark."
"The price to performance ratio with NetApp is unmatched by any other vendor right now."
"I am comfortable with the pricing, which is fair compared to others."
"Always consider whether you can afford the solution."
"It's expensive but we think over time all the prices are going to go down."
"In addition to simplifying the management across a mix of solutions, AFF simplifies the cost. That was one of the main reasons we purchased AFF."
"I find the pricing to be reasonable, particularly with the recent inclusion of features like snap locking and ransomware protection within the ONTAP license instead of having them as separate licenses."
"The list price of AFF is too expensive... they need to be careful with the pricing of the new NVMe disks. They are way too expensive."
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Comparison Review

it_user186357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 28, 2015
NetApp vs. XtremIO
Is there another storage platform as feature rich as NetApp FAS? I think it is fair to say that NetApp FAS running Clustered Data ONTAP is a very feature rich platform – the move to the clustered version of ONTAP has brought many next-generation features including Scale-out and Non-disruptive…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
47%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
62%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
4%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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NetApp All Flash FAS, NetApp AFF, NetApp Flash FAS
 

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