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Hitachi Content Platform vs Pure Storage FlashBlade comparison

Hitachi Vantara and Pure Storage are both solutions in the File and Object Storage category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.0, while Pure Storage is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.8. Hitachi Vantara holds a 1.6% mindshare in FaOS, compared to Pure Storage’s 5.7% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Hitachi Vantara users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Pure Storage users who would recommend it.
Hitachi Content Platform
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88% willing to recommend
Pure Storage FlashBlade
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94% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Pure Storage FlashBlade and Hitachi Content Platform compete in the storage solutions category. FlashBlade appears to have the upper hand due to its high performance and simplicity, while Hitachi offers extensive integration and archiving capabilities.

Features: Pure Storage FlashBlade is recognized for its exceptional throughput, speed, and seamless integration. It offers fast data replication and is noted for its user-friendly simplicity. Hitachi Content Platform excels in data archiving, management, and robust integration with existing systems. It provides strong stability and compliance features suitable for diverse environments.

Room for Improvement: Pure Storage FlashBlade requires improvements in public cloud integration, deduplication, and pricing, with users desiring enhanced enterprise-feature sets. Hitachi Content Platform needs simpler migration processes, better user interfaces, and stronger cloud integration. Users have also highlighted issues with pricing and the efficiency of technical support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Pure Storage FlashBlade is primarily deployed on-premises and is praised for its easy deployment process. However, some users noted a decline in support quality as the company grows. Hitachi Content Platform offers on-premises, public, and hybrid cloud deployments with generally high-rated technical support, despite occasional delays. FlashBlade's deployment is considered simpler, while Hitachi provides broader deployment options.

Pricing and ROI: Pure Storage FlashBlade is viewed as expensive but is justified by its high performance and significant ROI through time savings. Hitachi Content Platform offers competitive pricing among Western vendors with varied ROI, acknowledged for reducing total cost of ownership. FlashBlade is noted for streamlined management, whereas Hitachi provides cost-effective solutions with strong capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Hitachi Content Platform
Ranking in File and Object Storage
17th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Pure Storage FlashBlade
Ranking in File and Object Storage
8th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
All-Flash Storage (16th), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of Hitachi Content Platform is 1.6%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 5.7%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
File and Object Storage Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Pure Storage FlashBlade5.7%
Hitachi Content Platform1.6%
Other92.7%
File and Object Storage
 

Featured Reviews

Mir Gulzar Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Eric Black - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"As an architect, I like the management features that come with Hitachi Content Platform because it makes things easy."
"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."
"Hitachi is a big company, so it's a very strong product."
"The Hitachi Content Platform is a stable and reliable solution."
"The way that they handle the DR is very good because when there is a failover, it is seamless to the users."
"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."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the versioning and the ransomware protection."
"Companies can scale the solution."
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"The solution provides many controllers."
"We have seen a reduction in the total cost of ownership by around 20%."
"It has absolutely simplified our storage because the dashboards on the consoles show a clear understanding of where you are, and it is also very easy to provision. This been a big help for our teams."
"The performance of FlashBlade is excellent. It does not necessarily leverage the SOS API that some of the newer products leverage, but I found its speed pretty much on par and comparable. It is fast, and it does what it is supposed to do."
"Approximately 40% to 50% of my time is saved using Pure Storage FlashBlade compared to different products."
"The most valuable features are the Metro clustering, and disaster recovery."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"The solution is able to handle workloads and is easy to use. It allows us to actually manage the boxes in less time."
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Cons

"In terms of the customer support, I can say it's a mixed reaction depending on the country."
"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."
"At present, it is complicated to use the CLI command."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could use more integration with clouds."
"The user interface isn't as user-friendly, and the management platform UI isn't as intuitive as others. So it can be more user-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in the capacity for integration with other platforms."
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"It usually comes down to just what you hit and the value you're getting when you spend the money and license the products. I would always go, "If you want to make things better, lower your price and make your licensing simpler." There's always an opportunity around that."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"The technical support needs to improve. When we open a case, it is auto assigned to a support tech person. Nine out of ten times, we get an email right back saying that person is off until tomorrow. I cannot handle that. They just did this over the weekend to us, too. I had to call our rep and have them do something about it."
"I have not seen ROI."
"To improve FlashBlade, some analysts suggest enhancing its handling of relational database management systems and SQL queries."
"The speed could be improved."
"File storage needs a lot of improvement. Mainframe connectivity also needs improvement because it requires additional components to be integrated with Pure Storage FlashBlade. If you want to keep your backup data, then this becomes an even more expensive solution because Pure Storage FlashBlade will not be able to meet your backup needs."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product’s cost is average."
"I think the ROI for this solution is very good because the pricing for it is in between other solutions."
"Overall, it's costly."
"Pricing is comparable to other solutions in the market."
"The price of the Hitachi Content Platform is very high."
"Hitachi is more expensive than StorageGRID."
"The pricing could be better."
"It's a costly solution, but Pure Storage FlashBlade doesn't require additional licenses. All of the software is combined into one bundle."
"The pricing for FlashBlade is between cheap and moderate."
"Our customers have seen a reduction in TCO."
"I understand that it is competitively priced compared to other brands."
"The product is very expensive."
"In my opinion, we have paid the right price for the product. I don't think that it is too much or too little."
"The price could be cheaper."
"I feel that the price could always be lowered."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Government
13%
Educational Organization
6%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise20
 

Questions from the Community

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 Platform lacks the integration of block, file, and object on a single system. Alt...
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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 keep their long-term data on the platform. The platform is replacing their exist...
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What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashBlade?
The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensure...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashBlade?
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. Approximate...
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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 bit complex to understand. You have to understand it more deeply because it's hard...
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Also Known As

HCP, Hitachi Vantara Content Platform, Hitachi Vantara HCP
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Overview

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

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
 

Sample Customers

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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