NetApp facelift: FAS hardware refresh and a little nip ONTAP NetApp has comprehensively refreshed its all-flash FAS and hybrid FAS arrays, adding performance, capacity and scalability upgrades, and supporting 32Gbit/s Fibre Channel and 40GbitE connectivity. ONTAP also gets upgraded, with Azure support for ONTAP Cloud This follows on from the E-Series launch of the entry-level all-flash …
Still poor cifs performance, still expensive, still horrendously complex, still rediculously uplifted support post yr3, still still still.....
Its time for NetApp to redesign everything or buy a decent growth engine otherwise we will continue to see the declines of the last two years. This facelift is simply adding rouge to a porker.
IT Central Station community members disagree with you. NetApp All Flash FAS is ranked as a top solution by our community members, with users repeatedly mentioning the consistent stability, high performance and great technical support of the solution. Reviews are here: https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/netapp-all-flash-fas#product-reviews-section
uplifted support? you mean much flatter support, the Flash systems have 7 year warranty on their SSDs and you get a free controller upgrade. If by complex, you also mean robust and full featured you may have a point, but all of these simple solutions cannot support even half of these features, scale out, NDO, most protocols, flash to disk or cloud replication, white box support, OnTap within AWS or Azure. You dont have to like NetApp but lets keep it accurate at least.
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