NetApp AFF A-SeriesPricing

Cost is still prohibitive for performance. Performance tuning at the Fabric Interconnect … The cost was comparably high. The performance was necessary for the product infrastructure … The IBM All Flash FAS was similar in performance and price, but we were already a…

all data that must be encrypted at rest such as HIPAA data. It is of no value to data that is generally archived, little used or has low IO requirements

and this makes it harder for small - mid scale organizations who cannot afford multiple million dollar storage platforms. Handles workloads really well