NetApp AFF A-Series vs. Violin Memory

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NetApp AFF A-Series
Score 9.1 out of 10
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NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.N/A
Violin Memory
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Violin Memory in Santa Clara, CA offers a flash storage platform emphasizing cost-efficient storage that yet still supports applications at high performance.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
NetApp AFF A-Series
8.5
8 Ratings
5% below category average
Violin Memory
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Ratings
Flash Array Performance9.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Flash Array Integration9.37 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Compression7.27 Ratings00 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
Simplicity8.78 Ratings00 Ratings
Power Savings8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
NetApp AFF A-SeriesViolin Memory
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(9 ratings)
-
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Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Violin Memory
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Pros
NetApp
  • Protective multiple project and business data is excellent.
  • Solutions for data storage and data migration.
  • Providing useful and quality data reports is effective.
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Violin Memory
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Cons
NetApp
  • Cost is still prohibitive for performance.
  • Performance tuning at the Fabric Interconnect level.
  • Automation and scripting improvements in the PowerShell module.
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Violin Memory
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Usability
NetApp
Our organizations primary storage platform is NetApp AFF-A900 nodes. All our storage requirements, be it storage visible to our compute either using FC or NFS is through these nodes. The shares or CIFS too are setup on these nodes. We also use the fabric pool to write the data to NetApps Storage Grid
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Violin Memory
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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Violin Memory
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Return on Investment
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.
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Violin Memory
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