The big picture is usually more important
Hi all, Dimitris from NetApp here.
It's really easy to point to features the competition doesn't have. For instance, SolidFire has a weak FC and zero NAS capability.
That's stuff that's pretty hard to implement.
In the grand scheme of things, if the inline data efficiencies in ONTAP plus frequent dedupe (say every 5 minutes) are enough, the comparison becomes a mostly religious one.
Ultimately data reduction is just one way to save costs, and there are many places where costs can be saved.
This might help:
http://recoverymonkey.org/2015/06/24/netapp-enterprise-grade-flash/
Thx
D