We performed a comparison between Hitachi Content Platform and MinIO based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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."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 user-friendly. It doesn't take much time to do anything. If we know the architecture and the steps, we can do what we need with a few clicks."
"Integrating Hitachi Content Platform with existing systems is not challenging."
"Hitachi is a big company, so it's a very strong product."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the versioning and the ransomware protection."
"One of the most hidden valuable features is ensuring that you don't have bit rot, so it will go and check every single object that's stored on the system, then ensure that if there's a problem, it'll be repaired from either a local copy or remote copy, depending upon your configuration."
"The way that they handle the DR is very good because when there is a failover, it is seamless to the users."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their retention logs. The other thing I have found most valuable is the way they handle the BHEA. Basically the DNS and everything is managed by itself. It is seamless to the users."
"As an architect, I like the management features that come with Hitachi Content Platform because it makes things easy."
"This is an all-in-one, user-friendly data storage."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"The solution has good compatibility with different kinds of storage."
"The features that I have found most valuable with MinIO is its coding bit rot protection and how it distributes the workload over all the servers."
"The initial setup was very easy - one click, and it was installed."
"The product does save time for our company."
"Hitachi Content Platform is a complicated solution. You need to put several pieces of the hardware together in order to achieve the capacity or the performance needed."
"The solution could use more integration with clouds."
"At present, it is complicated to use the CLI command."
"What is lacking in this solution is a simple process to migrate from existing systems."
"There is room for improvement in the capacity for integration with other platforms."
"Two things that can be improved are pricing and configuration. Mostly the pricing is an issue. And if I were to add anything, I would say more integration with backup solutions such as Veeam Backup."
"They should improve the user interface. It's a little bit complex. It does not have a self-learning method. You need to know how to use it before you touch the system. The user interface is not self-explanatory."
"In terms of the customer support, I can say it's a mixed reaction depending on the country."
"The solution should have high availability. Also, support should be quick."
"The Distributed User Interface (DUI) needs some work. It's hard to view a large set of data on the DUI. It's an issue with the DUI's performance."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"MinIO has behaved strangely in the past. For instance, the application dropped connection to MinIO. It's not too significant, but it loses connection. We're trying to understand exactly what is happening when this happens."
"The tool’s pricing needs to improve. We also encountered challenges while deploying the tool in Kubernetes. The documentation also was not too great. We have currently deployed the solution in a stand-alone fashion."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
Hitachi Content Platform is ranked 15th in File and Object Storage with 12 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Hitachi Content Platform is rated 8.2, while MinIO is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hitachi Content Platform writes " Integrates well with existing systems but technical support for the platform needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". Hitachi Content Platform is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp StorageGRID, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and IBM Cloud Object Storage, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and IBM Cloud Object Storage. See our Hitachi Content Platform vs. MinIO report.
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