Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series vs. NetApp AFF A-Series

Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series

NetApp AFF A-Series

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	The Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series Storage Arrays are storage-area network (SAN) available via hybrid and all flash storage. Presently the product line includes the hybrid storage arrays models ThinkSystem DE2000H, ThinkSystem DE4000H, ThinkSystem DE6000H, and the all-flash storage array models ThinkSystem DE4000F, and ThinkSystem DE6000F.	N/A
NetApp AFF A-Series	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.	N/A

Pricing

Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series

NetApp AFF A-Series

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	NetApp AFF A-Series
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	NetApp AFF A-Series
Top Pros	Pro Cloud servers Pro Rack space	Pro Data storage Pro Data migration Pro Quality data
Top Cons	Minus Requires improvement Minus Missing functionality Minus No missing functionality	Minus User training Minus Time to complete Minus Hard to use

Features

Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series

NetApp AFF A-Series

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
	Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series - Ratings	NetApp AFF A-Series 9.4 6 Ratings 3% above category average
Flash Array Performance	00 Ratings	9.76 Ratings
Flash Array Integration	00 Ratings	9.75 Ratings
Data Compression	00 Ratings	9.65 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades	00 Ratings	9.65 Ratings
Simplicity	00 Ratings	9.16 Ratings
Power Savings	00 Ratings	9.15 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	NetApp AFF A-Series
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	NetApp FAS Storage Arrays Score 8.4 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	NetApp AFF A-Series Score 9.6 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 9.3 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	NetApp AFF A-Series
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.7 (7 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	NetApp AFF A-Series
Likelihood to Recommend	Lenovo My experience with Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series has been commendable and everything has been running smoothly. Data storage and analysis takes place effectively under this platform system giving our teams best insights on planning and decision making on time. All our financial records have great database that is secure and cannot be easily compromised by unauthorized access. The customer support team is reliable and always ready to offer help where needed 24/7. Incentivized Steven Egan Financial Advisor Read full review	NetApp Easy interface and the accessibility of the features are effective and this solution functionalities on data migration and processing of different from other packages is amazing. NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays is the most secure platform for easy management of all the business and project data and the capacity planning tools and even the configuration options are the best and easy to use. Incentivized Cedeno Amanda .NET Software Engineer Read full review
Pros	Lenovo It easily updates our systems to comply with international standards. Networking our systems with cloud servers Incentivized Steven Egan Financial Advisor Read full review	NetApp Protective multiple project and business data is excellent. Solutions for data storage and data migration. Providing useful and quality data reports is effective. Incentivized Annette Gilmour Senior Project Manager Read full review
Cons	Lenovo I have not experienced any downside that requires improvement. No missing functionality across all the features Incentivized Steven Egan Financial Advisor Read full review	NetApp Cost is still prohibitive for performance. Performance tuning at the Fabric Interconnect level. Automation and scripting improvements in the PowerShell module. Incentivized JB Jacob Bradley Infrastructure Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Lenovo I have not worked with a similar product in our company but this has been a reliable product throughout. It is easy and flexible to work with and the cost is manageable. It has suitable data storage plans that have been favorable to our workload demands. The results have always been positive and Return on Investment was achieved within the planned time. It has been profitable to all our departments meeting all data security requirements and working at reliable speed in file transfer. Incentivized Steven Egan Financial Advisor Read full review	NetApp I have been an IBM and EMC storage customer. I used EMC CX and VMX series SANs. I have used IBM Shark SANs before that. Much has changed over the years. It is my experience that Netapp has shown a great deal more innovation with large leaps in technology, ease of use and an aggressive progress while the two other vendors that I have experience with are more tied to their legacy technologies. Incentivized Paul Lemmons Lead Systems Software Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Lenovo No answers on this topic	NetApp ROI has been tremendous as it has come in handy in all the scenarios we were looking at Users and admins both happy with the overall performance and management is happy that they got a good deal from reseller. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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