Azure NetApp Files Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for virtualized SAP systems in Azure, running our SAP systems in Azure. It does extremely fast backup and restore processes. For our customers, it has the benefit that we don't influence their running of SAP systems while taking backups, so we can do backups more often. They also benefit from very fast resources, if they need something. In the end, it is an end customer benefit, not directly for us, as we are a service provider.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for heavy workloads. We are using it for some of the workloads related to SAP. We are also using it to store data related to videos coming from some of the cameras in the customer facilities. We have been using its latest version. It's elastic, so it scales with our demands. We can start small, then with the addition of customer loads, we can expand on the fly without the need to re-provision something.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using on-prem Netapp storages for many years now, and from the latest years we have started a movement (as most companies) to migrate workloads to Cloud. We currently have the challenge to growth our filers workloads (CIFS/NFS) on the Cloud and avoid expanding storages on-prem.

We also, as an Engineering company, have some requirements to store huge amounts of analysis data for long periods (15+ years) and Cloud seems to be the most cost-effective solution.

Azure Netapp Files sounded like a reliable/robust solution to run our workloads and to store these huge amounts of data on Azure, reducing the costs (when compared to on-prem workloads) while keeping confident/comfortable with Netapp robustness for production data.

We're currently running a couple of CIFS shares on Azure Netapp Files and evaluating it, planning to expand its usage.

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I would say it is more suitable to huge workloads, where you really needs the reliability and performance that a Netapp storage provides to you, larger share sizes, etc. Use cases where you really needs to store large amounts of non-structured data.

It is not a cheap solution, I mean, you can find other options to store your data on the Cloud at smaller prices. So, for small companies, or companies that depends mostly on web-applications, or don't have such a specific requirements, I would not go with Azure Netapp Files.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We wanted on-premises-like performance for our pharmaceutical drugs software data solutions and also wanted a simple but efficient solution for workloads to be moved and deployed in Microsoft Azure through storage and data management. As of now, Azure NetApp Files is being used by the IT and infrastructure departments, but we are planning to expand it to other areas within the organization.

Likelihood to Recommend

For us, with Azure NetApp Files, the ease of use has been big. We have an operations organization where ease of use is key--also it simplifies migration to the cloud. Azure NetApp Files eliminates a common cloud-first barrier by creating the right infrastructure environment for agencies' resources, budgets, and skillsets.

<p>We would like to be able to version the files that are coming in. So, if a file is accidentally deleted, there should have a recycle bin option where we can go back and, at least once, clean it up. They could probably improve the versioning and other advanced features. The replication is not available in all the Azure Availability Zones.</p>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure NetApp Files has allowed us to target any of our business-critical file workloads with very fast throughput. We use the ability to change the three service levels on-the-fly, to get the performance that’s best suited to the application in dev-test or in production. We find that the flexibility once deployed has greatly increased our ability to quickly react to business needs.

Likelihood to Recommend

This is a premium offering, so it's not a cheap product. It is fully supported, fully managed, easily provisioned, and scalable. If you have the right use case for this product and the money to afford it, it's a great solution. It is a premium storage solution in the cloud.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[Azure] NetApp helps us migrate from on premises file environments (non-netapp as well) to the Azure from both Windows and Linus (SMB/NFS). NetApp Files has recently been used by our organization. We are currently using it to move data to the cloud when migrating services to Azure. We use this service for migrated services running on Windows and Linux. NetApp Files very well address the problem of high availability for our services.

Likelihood to Recommend

<div>Azure NetApp has tools to help migrate from on premises file environments (non-netapp as well as physical machines) to the Azure.</div><div>This solution is very good at dealing with databases and services that are very difficult to migrate to the public cloud. We also use this solution to build clusters for our services and improve the security of our data stored in the cloud. </div>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organization implemented our NetApp infrastructure a few years ago. We just recently started to convert our computing to the Azure environment. We have been pleasantly surprised with the seemless integration and speed boost Azure NetApp Files has provided to our organization. Although storage is cheap nowadays, accessing that storage has become the bottleneck and Azure NetApp Files has mostly solved that problem.

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure NetApp Files is extremely flexible and adapts to the file storage needs of the business. It is well suited to migrate existing file storage structure with hundreds of thousand of files as well as starting from scratch with no files. In either scenario it has performed well and met our business' needs as our sales and service teams need to access files quickly while they are on the phone with prospects and customers. Quickly providing answers to prospects is paramount for our sales team because for every second a prospect waits on the phone, the chance of them leaving the conversation grows exponentially.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Being an outsourced IT company, we have a handful of clients that use Azure NetApp Files. The primary ones are our media clients, architects, and health clinics that need the high-volume cloud capabilities, the overall strong security for file sharing purposes, cross-country file share and storage, and the overall easy setup and use for the end users.

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure NetApp Files would be less appropriate for a single user, or single very small office setting. With the huge options in scalability to fit specific needs, it can be ideal for those that want full cloud services, no matter how large or small the organization. We particularly like the solid availability to the cloud storage, which supports multiple share types without having to reconfigure everything specially.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure NetApp Files has been implemented across the whole organization and it addresses storage space and server maintenance for our company. It is very helpful for our department as we are required to store information for at least seven years. We have been pestered by our IT department many times over the years that I have been with the organization about clearing out our old files and and removing unneeded data; however, we must keep a good portion and Azure NetApp Files has been helpful in storing and maintaining this data.

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure NetApp Files is helpful for us as we need to keep at least seven years of data, which makes it easy for us to maintain and find the data as needed rather than scouring through paper files and emails. As cloud storage, i don't see many areas where it might not be useful, but document recovery can be difficult at times. One other area where it is not as helpful is organizing the data. Maybe Azure NetApp Files can implement an organization function or better tools in marking different folders.