I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. Since we're a privately held manufacturing company, we tend to buy the lowest level hardware. For example, we bought a manufacturing company, and we needed to buy a SAN. So we got a 2750, which is near the absolute lowest end. However, that fits our purpose. The fact that no matter what SAN we're running, they're all running ONTAP is a boom for management. That said, I hope that they will continue to not ignore the low end and continue to offer products, like the FAS line that will fit a purpose for a location that's just looking to put up a couple of VMware ESXi hosts and to have NetApp SAN for shared storage and for things like SnapMirror. That would make us happy. We're never going to be buying petabytes worth of storage. We have not stepped into AI at all yet. That said, NetApp does security additions built in ONTAP which is a good barrier against malware and ransomware. We're definitely leveraging that. We're going to leverage their anti-ransomware and anti-malware since cybersecurity insurance is important. Every company needs to have it. We manufacture parts for the car industry. Some have said if you're not ISO 27001 certified and if you don't have cyber insurance, they're not going to do business with us. A lot of our decisions are driven by customer requirements. I have a very good reseller that I work with. Future goals include cybersecurity. I'm going to try and push for an additional set of controllers to have another set of places to store SnapMirrors locally. Then we have an existing 200 that I would like to use as a repository for backups and snapshots and things like that. We have to be flexible enough to be able to grow as needs arise. This product gives us the foundation to have that growth efficiently, whether it's the purchase of a new filer or the additional purchase of an additional disk.
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I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. Since we're a privately held manufacturing company, we tend to buy the lowest level hardware. For example, we bought a manufacturing company, and we needed to buy a SAN. So we got a 2750, which is near the absolute lowest end. However, that fits our purpose. The fact that no matter what SAN we're running, they're all running ONTAP is a boom for management. That said, I hope that they will continue to not ignore the low end and continue to offer products, like the FAS line that will fit a purpose for a location that's just looking to put up a couple of VMware ESXi hosts and to have NetApp SAN for shared storage and for things like SnapMirror. That would make us happy. We're never going to be buying petabytes worth of storage. We have not stepped into AI at all yet. That said, NetApp does security additions built in ONTAP which is a good barrier against malware and ransomware. We're definitely leveraging that. We're going to leverage their anti-ransomware and anti-malware since cybersecurity insurance is important. Every company needs to have it. We manufacture parts for the car industry. Some have said if you're not ISO 27001 certified and if you don't have cyber insurance, they're not going to do business with us. A lot of our decisions are driven by customer requirements. I have a very good reseller that I work with. Future goals include cybersecurity. I'm going to try and push for an additional set of controllers to have another set of places to store SnapMirrors locally. Then we have an existing 200 that I would like to use as a repository for backups and snapshots and things like that. We have to be flexible enough to be able to grow as needs arise. This product gives us the foundation to have that growth efficiently, whether it's the purchase of a new filer or the additional purchase of an additional disk.
I rate NetApp eight out of 10. I seldom give out 10 ratings.