Performance monitoring.
CIP System Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It lets you see everything from the storage to our VM environment
What is most valuable?
How has it helped my organization?
It is uniquely valuable because it lets you see everything from the storage to our virtual or VM environment. It does the whole path; it does storage, the fiber channel, the network, and the fee center.
What needs improvement?
We're not using it to its full potential, so it is hard to provide feedback here.
For how long have I used the solution?
Two years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
So far, the stability is good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I haven't looked into the scalability yet.
How are customer service and support?
I haven't used technical support yet.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We purchased this solution because we didn't have anything to do trending, forecasting, or reporting.
How was the initial setup?
I was involved in the initial setup and it was straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
I used a NetApp engineer to implement it. The engineer's expertise was very good.
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Storage Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Data analytics help to track down issues and lead to more rapid resolution of issues
What is most valuable?
The data analytics for helping track down issues.
How has it helped my organization?
It's quicker to fix issues.
What needs improvement?
They're moving away from the Java interface, but there are still some things that are only in the Java versus the web interface.
For how long have I used the solution?
About three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's a stable product. No issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I think there are issues with the Java Stack. Java seems to use a lot more memory than other solutions.
How is customer service and technical support?
I haven't used it.
What other advice do I have?
We're a water and electric company. I wouldn't say the product is uniquely valuable to our industry, but it is valuable.
It's moving in the right direction. I think there are some things that it still hasn't quite got but it's a very good product.
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Simplifies operations, helps us view every detail of our company's infrastructure
What is most valuable?
The product we use in our datacenter, and mostly I want to know about our datacenter's situation. In terms of the performance, before it was kind of is slow but now it is good. And the UI is good, after an upgrade, now it's a 7.3, I think.
How has it helped my organization?
Has made our operations simpler. Helped to know our datacenter, every detail. Helped to view our company infrastructure very well.
What needs improvement?
I don't know, the product is very good. Maybe lower the price.
For how long have I used the solution?
More than two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's very stable, and high performance, I think that's a very a good product.
It maybe have crashed in some situations, but it was not very critical because they have very good HA function, and the auto support is very good. It may be because we should have upgraded but didn't.
How are customer service and technical support?
That's good support. The response time is very quick. They have good documentation. They also respond by telephone and contact us directly.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
No.
How was the initial setup?
It was very easy. No problems.
What other advice do I have?
We chose this solutions because of our datacenter. We usually monitor our datacenter and have to check and everything.
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Storage and VMware Expert at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It simplified the administration of our storages and environment
What is most valuable?
The flexibility to use it.
How has it helped my organization?
It simplified the administration of our storages and environment.
What needs improvement?
The product is not easy to learn from the materials provided. We still have questions regarding it.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for about three years.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
I executed/deployed it the first time alone. When I need support, I ask for it.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is very good. We have not had a problem yet.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is good.
How is customer service and technical support?
The technical support is good. They solve the problems/issues that we have.
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Storage Engineer at a marketing services firm
We are able to pull statistics off of the devices within our enterprise and correlate them to predict trends which are happening
What is most valuable?
Some of the most valuable ones are actually being able to pull statistics off of the devices within our enterprise and correlate them to predict trends which are happening.
How has it helped my organization?
Biggest benefits are with analytics on devices and some of the applications. Case in point, Exchange and SQL, seeing how they are doing with trending, then as we are adding things, see how it is changing that trend.
In the government and military industries specifically, it is unique. It has helped a lot. It is a little misunderstood still, but what we are getting out of it and what we are providing to the leadership has been extremely valuable to them.
What needs improvement?
We can't encompass everything into it yet. E.g., the plugins for the other vendors' products that we can't currently monitor.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for just over a year now.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
I came into it after it was already in place. However, it was being underutilized, so we started bringing in a few of the OCI experts to spin us up to speed on what it is capable of and how we could use it.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is extremely stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
For scalability, out of a 10, I would give it a nine. Mainly, this is because we have some other vendors' solutions, like Nutanix, where we do not have the plugins for them yet.
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