I'm a community manager here at IT Central Station and I'm doing some research to try to make our platform even better. I'd really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions.
Was your research of Enterprise Flash Array products on our site for a purchase? If not, what was it for?
Which product did you end up choosing and when did you finalize the purchase?
Was IT Central Station content helpful in helping you make a decision?
What other content or data could we have offered that would have helped you make a quicker/better decision?
I really appreciate your help! Chaya
Was your research of Enterprise Flash Array products on our site for a purchase? If not, what was it for?
Yes, it was for purchase
Which product did you end up choosing and when did you finalize the purchase?
Dell/EMC UNITY 650F
Was IT Central Station content helpful in helping you make a decision?
It was the first point where I look for more information.
What other content or data could we have offered that would have helped you make a quicker/better decision?
Some demos and indicative prices
For self-education.
Was your research of Enterprise Flash Array products on our site for a purchase? If not, what was it for? YES
Which product did you end up choosing and when did you finalize the purchase? PureStorage in 2015 and new upgrade in 2017
Was IT Central Station content helpful in helping you make a decision? YES ITCS was good for comparing between many options, but the last decision was from RFQ/RFP between two options (Pure and EMC).
Your search for Enterprise Flash Array products on our site for a purchase? Otherwise, why was it?
- Yes, it was for purchase.
Which product did you choose and when did you complete the purchase?
- Netapp AFF8040
Did the content of the IT Central Station help you make a decision?
- Extremely
My research was not for a purchase; it was mainly for product review. My company will select an open source storage (like Ceph) for the cloud business sometime in this year; for your information.
Other than this, I evaluate your web site and content pretty good and I'm making some practical use of it occasionally.
Thank you,
Atatür
Was your research of Enterprise Flash Array products on our site for a purchase? If not, what was it for?
* Yes, I was comparing some of the ALL Flash products in the market for a purchase.
Which product did you end up choosing and when did you finalize the purchase?
* We have brought 2 IBM V9000 All Flash systems with 150 TB capacity each.
Was IT Central Station content helpful in helping you make a decision?
* IT Central Station provided a head to head comparison which helped me map my requirements with the features offered by the products.
What other content or data could we have offered that would have helped you make a quicker/better decision?
* To make the data more relevant, it would be great if a product comparison matrix could be made available to provide a precise and summarized view of the products. I am also doing some study on HCI and have found such matrix on whatmatrix.com very helpful.
My research was primarily for purchase and in our scope was related to service provider looking into massive growth. We ended up with the great Kaminario K2 All flash systems which answered all of our need in performance, service and price.
IT-Central is a valuable recourse as you get first hand none biased opinion and actual experience of users - it was very helpful. It would be great if we can get more insight on the companies financial state to understand the stability of the company since central storage purchase is a long term relationship and you would feel better knowing you are choosing a rising star rather than a dead horse.
We bought Netapp AFF because we were users of Netapp arrays so we had some technical expertise. We analized HP and Solidfire but ther were a bit pricier also.
Regards,
Antonio
My research was for a purchase. We ended up purchasing a Nimble Storage (Now HPE Nimble Storage) AF-1000 (all flash) array and a CS-1000 (hybrid flash) array. We use the AFA in production and the hybrid array in our DR site.
IT Central Station was somewhat helpful - it more or less confirmed opinions that I already had. But more corroboration is always good when you're purchasing expensive items like storage arrays. The decision wasn't a quick one, it was a tough sell because Nimble Storage wasn't one of the bigger players in the market. But I was convinced it was a superior product to many other offerings in the market. And I've found that after our purchase things met or exceeded our expectations.
Nimble Storage also has great technical support - even interoperability questions which tend to cross product boundaries. A lot of other vendors tend to blame things on the other vendor leave you hanging out there with no solution. And Nimble's proactive support is second to none. Usually, they find and flag issues before I see them. And if it's really important I get a phone call right away before things escalate.
The research was primarily used for the latest options, features in a flash array, this was for a purchase we were intending to follow through with
HP 3 Par 8200
Yes, lost of great feedback from the flash community
Thank you
Heath
This seems to be a generic question to someone that was looking at a particular vendor's site for info on a prospect's level of interest. What I can tell you is that Hi-Link offers fully solid state arrays along with hybrid and standard disc offerings. We prefer to recommend, HPE Storage, and their Nimble and SimpliVity offerings and we sell Tegile. I hope this helped!