Hitachi Content Platform vs Pure Storage Evergreen One comparison

Hitachi Vantara and Pure Storage are both solutions in the File and Object Storage category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.0, while Pure Storage is ranked #14 with an average rating of 9.0. Hitachi Vantara holds a 1.7% mindshare in FaOS, compared to Pure Storage’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Hitachi Vantara users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Pure Storage users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Hitachi Content Platform and Pure Storage Evergreen One compete in the enterprise storage market. Pure Storage appears to have the upper hand due to its innovative technology and scalability.

Features: Hitachi Content Platform is known for advanced object storage, seamless data tiering, and robust security. Pure Storage Evergreen One offers cutting-edge flash storage, exceptional performance, and scalable solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Hitachi Content Platform has a straightforward deployment process and comprehensive support. Pure Storage Evergreen One is more complex to deploy but uses an as-a-service model to simplify long-term management. Hitachi provides proactive customer service, while Pure Storage offers responsive technical support.

Pricing and ROI: Hitachi Content Platform provides cost-effective solutions with predictable pricing and excellent ROI. Pure Storage Evergreen One, although higher in price, offers significant ROI with future-proofing and infrastructure savings.

To learn more, read our detailed Hitachi Content Platform vs. Pure Storage Evergreen One Report (Updated: June 2025).

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Hitachi Content Platform vs. Pure Storage Evergreen One

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Pure Storage FlashBlade

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 5.8%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hitachi Content Platform is 1.7%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pure Storage Evergreen One is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Eric Black

Solutions Architect at Recovery Point Systems

The ability to leverage multi-tenancy along with immutability is a huge benefit for us

The only thing I feel FlashBlade is missing is the SOS API. If it had SOS API, that would put it well over the top. Veeam Backup specifically has started to streamline their API, and they are doing that with SOS API. They have optimized it. Any of the S3 devices out there that support this SOS API can have far more API calls at once. On our side, that translates to better restoration. With SOS API, it can leverage far more restorations at a single given time or read from the device in simple terms. That results in maximizing the output and throughput from the device itself.

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Mir Gulzar Ahmed

IT Manager at Synergy Computers

Integrates well with existing systems but technical support for the platform needs improvement

While deployment is simple, it's not as simple as StorageGRID. The architecture is entirely different, even though the end product uses the same protocols. The user interface isn't as user-friendly, and the management platform UI isn't as intuitive as others. Deployment isn't as centralized either. Although I've deployed Hitachi Content myself in our production head office for the VM team, even though it's simple, it wasn't completely straightforward. They still required my help with the initial configuration environment setup. So, it's not just simple; there are some tricky aspects. The environment is tricky, but if you understand it, configuration can be done quickly.

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Michael-Daniel

Virtual Storage Administrator at Coast

Exceptional speed improves performance with short and long-term storage

We are using it in-house for our data center to run all of our VMware environment and our VDI environment on. Infrastructure consumption, as well as short-term and long-term storage, is included The speed of the product is quite a bit better in performance than the previous environment we were…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It performs well and it is also very fast."

"The initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there."

"Speed and ease of use are the two most valuable features."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."

"I would rate this solution an eight plus. It has has good flexibility and stability, it's easy to manage and the response time is good."

"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."

"The most valuable features are the Metro clustering, and disaster recovery."

"I would rate Pure Storage FlashBlade a ten out of ten."

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"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."

"The way that they handle the DR is very good because when there is a failover, it is seamless to the users."

"The product provides the fastest technology."

"Hitachi is a big company, so it's a very strong product."

"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."

"Companies can scale the solution."

"Integrating Hitachi Content Platform with existing systems is not challenging."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the versioning and the ransomware protection."

Cons

"It would be beneficial if the layer could support the S3 protocol and be container ready in the next release."

"The only thing I feel FlashBlade is missing is the SOS API. If it had SOS API, that would put it well over the top."

"It's on the expensive side, as expected for a niche product."

"I have not seen ROI."

"Recently, while upgrading the version code, one of the controllers failed. Replacing the controller took between 14 to 20 days."

"An area for improvement in Pure Storage FlashBlade is its price. It could be reduced. The technical support for Pure Storage FlashBlade also needs improvement. It used to be good, with more experienced engineers. Nowadays, it isn't, and it takes longer for support to solve problems."

"To improve FlashBlade, some analysts suggest enhancing its handling of relational database management systems and SQL queries."

"On our dedupe during our initial buy, we were expecting a number a little higher like 4x. However, we are getting about 3.6. While it is close enough, it doesn't quite hit the numbers. So, this has been a challenge."

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"At present, it is complicated to use the CLI command."

"This product's ability to track logs for access still needs to be improved."

"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."

"The only thing is that it should be more cost effective."

"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 VSP platforms. An engineer can come in and replace that specific disk. If also we could do that on Hitachi Content Platform, it would be great for us."

"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."

"They could improve compatibility and offer a more user-friendly GUI."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our licensing is renewed annually."

"The product is very expensive."

"I understand that it is competitively priced compared to other brands."

"The price is a little high."

"In my opinion, we have paid the right price for the product. I don't think that it is too much or too little."

"I feel that the price could always be lowered."

"It is within reason for what you get. From what we have found comparing it to other vendors, it is in the same range as others. Given the choice, we would definitely redeploy it based on the cost."

"The price could be cheaper."

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"The pricing could be better."

"Hitachi is more expensive than StorageGRID."

"The product’s cost is average."

"The price of the Hitachi Content Platform is very high."

"Pricing is comparable to other solutions in the market."

"Overall, it's costly."

"I think the ROI for this solution is very good because the pricing for it is in between other solutions."

"The pricing is very good."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

22%

Government

13%

Manufacturing Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Retailer

11%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashBlade?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashBlade?

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?

I believe there is not much improvement needed because they have everything we need, but the interface is a little bi...

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What do you like most about Hitachi Content Platform?

Integrating Hitachi Content Platform with existing systems is not challenging.

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What needs improvement with Hitachi Content Platform?

In comparison to competitors like Huawei, which can use all storage protocols in the same platform, Hitachi Content P...

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What is your primary use case for Hitachi Content Platform?

Mainly, from my project, Hitachi Content Platform is used for archiving. The customer is in banking, so they need to ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage Evergreen One?

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage Evergreen One?

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Overview

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.

Pure Storage

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.

Hitachi Vantara

The Pure Storage Evergreen Portfolio offers a range of subscription-based storage solutions tailored to diverse data storage, management, and cost needs. Providing unmatched choice and flexibility, it offers multiple subscription models to align with varying requirements and budgets while leveraging Pure Storage's proven Evergreen Architecture for non-disruptive upgrades and futureproofing. The portfolio includes three specific programs: Evergreen//One, a hybrid cloud storage solution with guaranteed SLA; Evergreen//Flex, offering subscription-based ownership with flexible payment structures; and Evergreen//Forever, providing ongoing hardware and software upgrades for traditional storage purchases, simplifying ownership and eliminating the need for frequent hardware replacements.

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Sample Customers

ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL

Rabobank, Xinhua News Agency, Kremsm'ller Industrieanlagenbau KG, KSC Commercial Internet, AIS Group, Shanghai Interactive Television Co. Ltd (SiTV), China Telecom, Spin Master

1. Aetna 2. Adobe 3. ADP 4. Aflac 5. Allstate 6. Amazon 7. American Express 8. American Greetings 9. Ameriprise Financial 10. ATT 11. Autodesk 12. Bank of America 13. Barclay's 14. Baxter International 15. Berkshire Hathaway 16. BlackRock 17. Boeing 18. Bristol-Myers Squibb 19. Capital One 20. Caterpillar 21. Citigroup 22. Coca-Cola 23. Comcast2 4. ConocoPhillips 25. Constellation Brands 26. CVS Health 27. Dell 28. Disney 29. Dominion Energy 30. Eli Lilly and Company 31. Equinix 32. ExxonMobil

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