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NetApp ONTAP AI vs. Oracle Exalogic

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NetApp ONTAP AI

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ANVIDIA and NetApp collaborate to deliver 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

    Oracle Exalogic

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOracle's Exalogic is a converged infrastructure appliance.N/A
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    NetApp ONTAP AIOracle Exalogic
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    NetApp ONTAP AIOracle Exalogic
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    NetApp ONTAP AIOracle Exalogic
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    User Testimonials
    NetApp ONTAP AIOracle Exalogic
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    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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    Oracle
    Oracle Exalogic in conjunction with an Oracle Exadata based platform is what I would consider the best of breed solution; however the performance may be overkill for what you need. Don't spend the money unless you need the performance, Oracle offers other solutions at a much lower cost. Purchase what you need not what's the shiny new product.
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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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    Oracle
    • Private Cloud: in the virtual configuration, you can create several accounts and assign different resources (vCPU, RAM, etc.) to several departments in your organization.
    • SDP & Infiband: Oracle Exalogic can be connected to Oracle Exadata using Infiniband Fabric, to take advantage of high bandwidth and low latency network to connect Weblogic to Oracle Database.
    • Standardization: Oracle Weblogic Server running on Oracle Exalogic is the same software running on a normal Linux machine, so you can easily move Java applications without changing it, and immediately benefit from the Exalogic Optimizations.
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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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    Oracle
    • Currently, the management of Exalogic is a little arcane. There is a good chance that Oracle can bring flexibility into the control stack because we have seen changes with each version of the software Echo was an improvement and foxtrot even more so. The ability to easily change VM shapes was another welcome change.
    • Again the fact arises that to build a very high performance machine there will be idiosyncrasies and a certain amount of retraining may be required. I think this is one area where Exalogic lacks not as a product but as a solution is that there isn't as much good knowledge available about it as there is for other engineered systems.
    • The Exalogic default setup could do with an SSD storage option, currently the onboard comes with a spinning disk.
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    Support Rating
    NetApp
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    Oracle
    It is a very condensed version of what used to be rows of servers. I like that storage, networking and compute nodes fit in one rack. The power and the software are top notch. The only problem is cost. You need to do some serious processing to get the true value out of the Exalogic system.
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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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    Oracle
    It's hard to compare Oracle Exalogic Engineered Systems with anything else on the market. It's so purpose built for application performance and intended to be used in conjunction with other Oracle Engineered Systems. As I alluded to earlier in this review the cost may not be worth the investment if the performance isn't needed. Oracle offers other solutions like the Oracle PCA which will meet the need for licensing compliance at a much lower cost of ownership and may fit better into your current infrastructure.
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    Return on Investment
    NetApp
    • It reduced the time complexity
    • It increased productivity
    • Faster computation
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    Oracle
    • Increase stability and performance of Weblogic Server applications.
    • Platinum Support: the patching process is simplified because storage/firmware/OS/binaries are patched in the same time by the same vendor.
    • Cost savings for hardware maintenance.
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