


Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
It does not require much management once you set up correctly, so it saves time, allowing an admin to focus on other work.
In comparison to AWS, within fourteen months, the CAPEX investment pays off due to Cloudian's pricing model.
There is a lack of customer trust with this product.
I have seen a pretty good ROI with Cloudian HyperStore in terms of reduced storage management overhead, lower cost per terabyte, and improved productivity across teams.
I would rate them an eight out of ten.
The support is done through email and is not that great, making it a very problematic area I've been dealing with for over four years.
Their technical support has been perfect lately, so I would give it a 10.
The support plus option provides a high level of assistance, including direct second-line support.
I would rate the customer support for Cloudian HyperStore a 10 out of 10 because they're great.
I can evaluate that the support interactions were of high quality.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is scalable.
There are between 5 and 10,000 people using it in our organization.
Cloudian HyperStore's scalability has been awesome; it keeps up with our growing storage needs.
I found that the performance of Cloudian HyperStore suffers at scale, where the Cassandra database struggles to keep up with bulk deletes and bulk requests.
Cloudian HyperStore's scalability is not as good as I wanted it to be because if I want to add anything new to the current environment, the process is extremely lengthy and takes a lot of time.
In case there is any issue with any blade, the data is moved to another.
Technical support definitely needs significant improvement.
Its configuration should be easier.
One way Pure Storage FlashBlade can be improved is by having more compatibility between the FlashArray and FlashBlade.
Cloudian HyperStore is already very sophisticated, and no changes are needed as it is ahead of market need.
It has consistently met our expectations in terms of performance, scalability, and reliability.
It is important to thoroughly understand customer use cases to tailor the appropriate solution, whether using appliances for performance or software for backup targets.
The pricing of Pure Storage FlashBlade is expensive compared to other products I used from other companies in the past, but one benefit is that they have built-in ransomware protection.
Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making it good for us.
Cloudian HyperStore offers reasonable pricing.
The pricing was competitive.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Cloudian HyperStore indicates that it is a cheap product, and the licenses are cheap as well.
We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte.
The best features of Pure Storage FlashBlade include better throughput and better performance.
Pure Storage FlashBlade's scalability is one of the most valuable features, and importantly, it always works, allowing for seamless upgrades.
Cloudian HyperStore positively impacts my organization by helping us centralize our data storage across our teams and simplify our infrastructure, meeting our growing demands on storage while maintaining performance and control.
If any uneventful or unintended delete happens, I have the ability to recover it without going into the backup.
One of the most significant features of Cloudian is its comprehensive RESTful API stack.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Cloudian HyperStore | 2.8% |
| MinIO | 16.3% |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage | 15.3% |
| Other | 65.6% |
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| StarWind HyperConverged Appliance | 2.2% |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage | 14.3% |
| DataCore SANsymphony | 6.3% |
| Other | 77.2% |


| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 11 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 11 |
| Large Enterprise | 21 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 3 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 1 |
| Large Enterprise | 7 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 50 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 8 |
FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.
Cloudian HyperStore lets you start small and grow to hundreds of petabytes on-premises simply by adding nodes. Leverage the proven interoperability of the industry’s only 100% native S3 API.
For SMB, ROBO and Enterprises, who look to bring in quick deployment and operation simplicity to virtualization workloads and reduce related expenses, our solution is StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, hypervisor of choice, StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN and associated software into a single manageable layer. The HCA supports scale-up by adding disks and flash, and scale-out by adding extra nodes.
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance consists of StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN “Ready Nodes”, targeting those, who are building their virtualization infrastructure from scratch. In case there is an existing set of servers, we offer a “software only version”, which is essentially our years proven StarWind Virtual SAN. Basically, it’s the fuel powering StarWind HCA.
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