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The GUI is intuitive, and it integrates well with our existing solutions
We can easily integrate Content Platform into our environment. We have G10 and S10 nodes. The metadata is stored in the pools that make up the G10... Read more →
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  • "Pricing is comparable to other solutions in the market."
  • "The pricing could be better."
  • "The price of the Hitachi Content Platform is very high."

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    What do you like most about Hitachi Content Platform?
    Top Answer: 
    We are using Content Platform for data migration, and it integrates with our HNS platform. This is good because we can integrate it with our existing HNS and SAP solutions. The GUI is also… more »
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    What needs improvement with Hitachi Content Platform?
    Top Answer: 
    When you want to replace a disk, we need to start the maintenance from the S nodes. We have to automate maintenance so any onsite engineer can replace it after that, but we don't need to do this on… more »
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    What is your primary use case for Hitachi Content Platform?
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    My job involves managing storage, like adding new hosts in our environment, creating users, zoning, and allocation. I completely decommission storage when a site is decommissioned and carry out all… more »
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    Ranking
    22nd
    out of 26 in File and Object Storage
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    10th
    out of 26 in File and Object Storage
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    Average Words per Review
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    Rating
    8.0
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    Also Known As
    Active Archive System, ActiveScale P100, ActiveScale X100
    HCP, Hitachi Vantara Content Platform, Hitachi Vantara HCP
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    Overview

    Big Data insights enable Fast Data applications. Your data can generate value when it’s aggregated, analyzed, and applied to business decisions. We live for long-term data preservation, and our ActiveScale object storage systems are changing the economics of data. The ActiveScale system architecture is designed for petabyte-scale datasets, facilitates storing data forever, and takes full advantage of our component-to-system vertical innovation.

    Hitachi Content Platform is an object storage solution that enables IT organizations and cloud service providers to store, share, sync, protect, preserve, analyze and retrieve file data from a single system. It is more efficient, easier to use, and capable of handling much more data than traditional file storage solutions. HCP automates day-to-day IT operations like data protection and readily evolves to changes in scale, scope, applications, storage, server and cloud technologies over the life of data. In IT environements where data grows quickly or must live for years, decades or even indefinitely, these capabilities are invaluable.

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    Sample Customers
    EPFL, Illumination Mac Guff
    Rabobank, Xinhua News Agency, Kremsm'ller Industrieanlagenbau KG, KSC Commercial Internet, AIS Group, Shanghai Interactive Television Co. Ltd (SiTV), China Telecom, Spin Master
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government8%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise44%
    Large Enterprise22%
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    HGST ActiveScale is ranked 22nd in File and Object Storage while Hitachi Content Platform is ranked 10th in File and Object Storage with 5 reviews. HGST ActiveScale is rated 0.0, while Hitachi Content Platform is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Content Platform writes "The GUI is intuitive, and it integrates well with our existing solutions". HGST ActiveScale is most compared with Scality RING8, whereas Hitachi Content Platform is most compared with Dell ECS, MinIO, NetApp StorageGRID, Pure Storage FlashBlade and IBM Cloud Object Storage.

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