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    NetApp AIPod

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ANVIDIA and NetApp collaborate to deliver AIPod (formerly ONTAP AI), a converged infrastructure stack that incorporates NVIDIA DGX A100, a 5-petaflop AI system, and NVIDIA Mellanox high-performance Ethernet switches to unify AI workloads, simplify deployment, and accelerate return on investment.N/A

    OneXafe (discontinued)

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AOneXafe, formerly by StorageCraft, and later acquired by Arcserve, was a high performance scale-out file storage appliance, replacing the former Exablox line of scale-out devices acquired by Arcserve in January 2017 to boost that company's product line. The product line is discontinued, and is no longer available.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    NetApp AIPodOneXafe (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
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    Performance
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    10.0
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    Vendor pre-sale
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    NetApp AIPodOneXafe (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    NetApp
    If you want to deploy your AI system with precofigured solution and validated architecture and also want to scale your system, NetApp ONTAP AI is go to product. If you want to build not so large pipleline for analytics, or an ai system that dont require complex computation then its not recommended.
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    Discontinued Products
    For SMB file storage Exablox is great, but as an ESXi datastore it still needs work.
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    Pros
    NetApp
    • Simplified AI data management infrastructure
    • Feasible DL pipeline building
    • Powerful solution to build data fabric
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    • Exablox is simple to setup and relatively easy to use.
    • Exablox is priced very competitively and is a good value for the cost.
    • Exablox has good customer service.
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    Cons
    NetApp
    • Documentation is highly technical
    • Support not upto the mark
    • Data science tool kit needs few improvement with added features
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    Discontinued Products
    • Exablox is still in its infancy as a company and in some respects the product feels like a version 1.0.
    • Integration with VMware ESXi has some bugs that need to be figured out.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    NetApp
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    Discontinued Products
    The price for Exablox was very appealing. If we can resolve the NFS datastore issues we are seeing in VMware, this is a perfect solution for a ESXi datastore. Once that issue is resolved, I will give Exablox a higher rating.
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    Usability
    NetApp
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    Discontinued Products
    Again, the initial install, setup and config was simple through a web browser.
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    Reliability and Availability
    NetApp
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    Since the day we installed Exablox we have not had any down-time. The storage resources have been available 100% of the time.
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    Performance
    NetApp
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    Discontinued Products
    SMB file access has been very responsive. We have not seen any slowness. Also, in using Exablox as tier 1 storage in our VMware environment, the VMs performed great. No slowness issues.
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    Support Rating
    NetApp
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    Exablox has been very responsive to our requests. They communicate very well and are extremely knowledgable
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    Implementation Rating
    NetApp
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    Straightforward and simple implementation. We completed the implementation in less than 2 hours.
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    Alternatives Considered
    NetApp
    1) Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) dont have vast functionalities they are limited to set of rules. 2) They dont support all in one. I.e NetApp ONTAP AI I can analyze, inference and compute on simgle node or system. 3) pricing of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) is higher than NetApp ONTAP AI
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    Discontinued Products
    Exablox was much less expensive than other storage arrays and I think there are a lot of reasons to purchase them. I believe that as the product matures, it will be a great option for storage.
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    Scalability
    NetApp
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    Discontinued Products
    We have not tried to scale Exablox so we are not familiar with this.
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    Return on Investment
    NetApp
    • It reduced the time complexity
    • It increased productivity
    • Faster computation
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    Discontinued Products
    • We purchased Exablox specifically for our ESXi environment, so we are hoping to get the wrinkles worked out to see a greater return on our investment.
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