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Hitachi Content Platform vs SwiftStack [EOL] comparison

Hitachi Vantara and NVIDIA are both solutions in the File and Object Storage category. Additionally, 88% of Hitachi Vantara users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NVIDIA users who would recommend it.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade
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94% willing to recommend
Hitachi Content Platform
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88% willing to recommend
SwiftStack [EOL]
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    100% willing to recommend
     

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    Categories and Ranking

    Pure Storage FlashBlade
    Sponsored
    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), File and Object Storage (8th)
    Hitachi Content Platform
    Average Rating
    8.0
    Reviews Sentiment
    6.9
    Number of Reviews
    14
    Ranking in other categories
    File and Object Storage (15th)
    SwiftStack [EOL]
    Average Rating
    8.6
    Number of Reviews
    8
    Ranking in other categories
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    Featured Reviews

    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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    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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    reviewer1759539 - PeerSpot reviewer
    A nicely-done product that provides a lot of graphs and reports to see what's happening in the background and makes configuration easier
    It's very well done for what it's supposed to do, and I don't have anything to add, but I would like them to keep it available to the public. SwiftStack is going out of the market. NVIDIA purchased SwiftStack a couple of years ago, and they won't be making it available to the public anymore. Our license is up to March 31st.
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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

    "The most valuable features include the ease of implementation, ease of use and the speed that you can do backup and recovery on."
    "The most valuable feature is Safe Mode."
    "We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."
    "The most valuable features of this solution are the rewrite speed and the nonstop services."
    "The most valuable features of FlashBlade include its replication capabilities, reports, and easy allocation. Everything is user-friendly."
    "It performs well and it is also very fast."
    "It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
    "It has also helped to simplify storage for us in the way that it's easy to manage. Their automatic monitoring really helps when things break or are about to break. They see a problem coming and alert us even before our own system does."
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    "The main selling point is its compatibility with different environments. It functions like an on-prem Google Drive or Dropbox built on top of the object storage."
    "The most valuable features of the solution are the versioning and the ransomware protection."
    "Feature-wise, it has a lot of features. The most valuable features include de-duplication, encryption, version controlling, support, and tamper-proof data."
    "Companies can scale the solution."
    "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 platform helps in efficient data management with the ease of server provisioning."
    "As an architect, I like the management features that come with Hitachi Content Platform because it makes things easy."
    "The Hitachi Content Platform is a stable and reliable solution."
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    "The biggest feature, the biggest reason we went with SwiftStack, rather than deploying our own model with OpenStack Swift, was their deployment model. That was really the primary point in our purchase decision, back when we initially deployed. It took my installation time from days to hours, for deployment in our environment, versus deploying OpenStack Swift ourselves, manually."
    "It has helped us with the ability to distribute data to different data centers. As part of our DR strategy, we have nodes automatically replicating data from one data center to the other. This makes it easier for us to not have to shift tapes around."
    "In terms of the hardware flexibility, with SwiftStack not being a hardware company, I literally buy any hardware that's the least expensive, from any vendor... from a flexibility standpoint, I think it's fantastic. I can go to anybody, anywhere - any vendor - and get my hardware."
    "The performance is good. It is a secondary storage platform designed for archive and backup, so performance for the right use cases is very good. We have been pretty happy in that regard."
    "The graphs are most valuable. They have a lot of graphs and reports that you can run to see what's happening in the background to configure OpenStack Swift."
    "The most valuable feature is its versatility. We use 1space and we can use it for almost anything: for our cloud service, for backups of VMs."
    "SwiftStack is also quite flexible when it comes to hardware. It depends, of course, on the use case and the kind of hardware you want to buy. But you have quite a bit of choice in hardware. The SwiftStack software itself does not impose anything on you."
    "The general consensus on what we've done is that the restores coming back from it have been faster than they were from our prior vendor. Ingest speeds are fine. The restore speeds have improved."
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    Cons

    "Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes."
    "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 have not seen ROI."
    "The documentational aspect of FlashBlade needs improvement."
    "Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues, requiring feature disabling to revert to traditional backups. The firmware upgrades sometimes affect Commvault backups."
    "To improve FlashBlade, some analysts suggest enhancing its handling of relational database management systems and SQL queries."
    "We initially encountered challenges with the assembly process due to issues with the documentation required during setup, an area where Pure Storage needs improvement."
    "It's on the expensive side, as expected for a niche product."
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    "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."
    "At present, it is complicated to use the CLI command."
    "They could improve compatibility and offer a more user-friendly GUI."
    "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."
    "There is room for improvement in the capacity for integration with other platforms."
    "The only thing is that it should be more cost effective."
    "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."
    "The solution could use more integration with clouds."
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    "It's very well done for what it's supposed to do, and I don't have anything to add, but I would like them to keep it available to the public. SwiftStack is going out of the market. NVIDIA purchased SwiftStack a couple of years ago, and they won't be making it available to the public anymore. Our license is up to March 31st."
    "At the moment we are using Erasure coding in an 8+4 setting. What would be nice is if, for some standard configurations like 15+4 and 8+4, there were more versatility so we could, for example, select 8+6, or the like."
    "The file access needs improvement. The NFS was rolled out as a single service. It needs to be fully integrated into the proxy in a highly available fashion, like the regular proxy access is. I know it's on the roadmap."
    "[One] thing that I've been looking for, for years as an end user and customer, for any object store, including SwiftStack, is some type of automated method for data archiving. Something where you would have a metadata tagging policy engine and a data mover all built into a single system that would automatically be able to take your data off your primary and put it into an object store in a non-proprietary way - which is key."
    "The biggest room for improvement is the maturity of the proxyFS solution. That piece of code is relatively new, so most of our issues have been around the proxyFS."
    "On the controller features, there needs to be a bit more clean up of the user interface. There are a lot of options available on the GUI which might be better organized or compartmentalized. There are times when you are going through the user interface and you have to look around for where the setting may be. A little bit more attention to the organization of the user interface would be helpful."
    "They should provide a more concise hardware calculator when you're putting your capacity together."
    "I would like to see better client integrations, support for a broader client library. SwiftStack could be a little bit more involved in the client side: Python, Java, C, etc."
     

    Pricing and Cost Advice

    "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."
    "Support is a separate line item. Support is a different cost, but whatever your support is now, that's what you're going to pay forever. If your support's $100 today, six years from now it's $100. It doesn't fluctuate unless you upgrade it, or change it, etc."
    "Our licensing is renewed annually."
    "The product is very expensive."
    "The pricing is relatively expensive due to the FlashBlade technology. However, for companies needing quick and reliable data access, the cost is justified."
    "In my opinion, we have paid the right price for the product. I don't think that it is too much or too little."
    "Licensing fees are paid yearly."
    "We used a reseller for the purchase."
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    "The price of the Hitachi Content Platform is very high."
    "The pricing could be better."
    "The product’s cost is average."
    "Overall, it's costly."
    "Hitachi is more expensive than StorageGRID."
    "Pricing is comparable to other solutions in the market."
    "I think the ROI for this solution is very good because the pricing for it is in between other solutions."
    "One of their advantages of being a commercial open source platform is, for the scale that they offer, the pricing is pretty competitive."
    "We are able to dynamically grow storage at a lower cost. We can repurpose hardware and buy commodity hardware. There is a huge cost savings, on average $100,000 a year compared to traditional storage for what we have at our size."
    "It's pricey for us because we're a nonprofit. I'm not privy to any amount or cost, but I have been told that it is pricey. There are no costs in addition to the licensing fees, and it seems to come with the support."
    "COST_SAVING; We have had a 40 to 50 percent reduction in CAPEX on the acquisition of new hardware, which is probably conservative."
    "Dollar per gigabyte, it costs us more because we are storing more. However, if you look at it from a cost per gigabyte perspective, we have dropped our costs significantly."
    "The pricing and licensing are capacity-based, so it's hard to put my finger on them, because so many different vendors charge in different ways. We are still saving significantly over any of the other options that we evaluated because we can choose the best hardware at the best price, then put SwiftStack software on it. So, it's hard to complain, even though a part of me goes, "It would be nicer if it were less expensive.""
    "All in, with hardware and everything else - and I hate to say a dollar amount because it's been awhile since I computed it - I know I'm under the $300 to $500 per terabyte mark. I call that my "all in" price, which has replications built in and protections built in."
    "The pricing model is great and makes sense. We have talked about how to get into more of a frequent billing cycle than once a year. That would be an interesting concept to add into the product, having the ability to have monthly billing instead of having to do a one-year licensing renewal. However, the way the license works by charging for storage consumed is definitely what makes them the most competitive."
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    Top Industries

    By visitors reading reviews
    Computer Software Company
    14%
    Financial Services Firm
    11%
    Educational Organization
    9%
    Manufacturing Company
    9%
    Computer Software Company
    22%
    Financial Services Firm
    22%
    Government
    13%
    Manufacturing Company
    5%
    Computer Software Company
    19%
    Manufacturing Company
    16%
    Financial Services Firm
    7%
    Educational Organization
    6%
     

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    Large Enterprise
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    Small Business
     

    Questions from the Community

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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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    Also Known As

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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

    SwiftStack focuses on handling large-scale unstructured data, providing software-defined storage, and boosting data scalability and durability.

    SwiftStack is known for its proficiency in object storage, seamless workflow integration, and robust support for multi-cloud environments. Its architecture ensures high-performance data access, making it ideal for big data analytics, media asset management, and backup tasks. Users value its flexibility, ease of integration, and strong performance. The solution's high availability and efficient storage capabilities contribute to its strengths. However, areas needing improvement include customer support response time, initial setup guidance, and enhanced scalability during high-demand periods.

    What are SwiftStack's Most Important Features?

    • Robust Scalability: Easily manages growing data volumes
    • Multi-cloud Support: Seamless integration across cloud environments
    • Seamless Data Management: Efficiently handles large datasets
    • High Availability: Ensures data is accessible whenever needed
    • Open-Source: Customizable and flexible with extensive API support

    What Benefits Should Users Look For?

    • Enhanced Performance: Handles demanding workloads efficiently
    • Easy Integration: Adapts well with existing systems and workflows
    • High Durability: Ensures long-term data storage and protection
    • Cost-Effectiveness: Reduces overall storage costs
    • Scalability: Grows with organizational needs

    In industries like media management and big data analytics, SwiftStack’s capabilities in high-performance data access and multi-cloud support facilitate efficient data handling. Backup and archival solutions also benefit from its robust storage and high availability features.

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