We performed a comparison between Hitachi NAS Platform and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance."
"Simple and extremely reliable."
"Hitachi is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload."
"The product has valuable features for data migration."
"The product’s technical support services are good."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable."
"The pricing of this solution is good, which is an advantage that positions this product well."
"The most valuable features in IBM FlashSystem are IOPS, performance, duplication, and compression."
"The most valuable features are, of course, the virtualization of the storage, the performance, and the compression."
"IBM FlashSystem has an easy to use GUI, similar to the IBM Storewize family, which make it one of the best flash storage systems in the market."
"It's a mature product. It's like a BMW that evolves consistently."
"The all-flash storage has tier replication capabilities."
"The performance is very good and we use this product to enhance our core system."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is SCM (Storage Class Memory), which has the lowest latency value in the storage industry."
"Installing FlashSystem is very easy. It takes less than half an hour, and I can handle it all myself."
"Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive."
"The monitoring tool is not well developed."
"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product."
"I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS."
"Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors."
"I do not like Hitachi NAS because it's an old-school NAS solution, compared to the other, newer-type solutions such as Isilon from Dell or Qumulo."
"This solution could be improved by offering greater amounts of storage."
"The security features can be improved such that the encryption does not affect performance in any way."
"The price is very costly."
"In IBM FlashSystem, data reduction is an area with shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"The support could improve by allowing you to speak to someone when you call rather than them calling you back. However, once we do have contact with one of their technicians they are excellent."
"They can include Amazon file system S3 protocol in the upcoming releases. It is a cloud file system. IBM FlashSystem doesn't have this feature in the box for high-end or mid-range. We have got requests for this from customers because we need to use S3 for EDI application storage. At the beginning of every year, IBM releases firmware. When I find any bugs in the firmware during the year, I am unable to find any information from IBM regarding the bug. I need to open a ticket, and the IBM engineering team makes a patch only for me. This patch is not public. By creating a customized patch for a client, they don't really solve the issue for everyone. If multiple users have the same bug, IBM should upload the patch on the official website so that we can download it. IBM FlashSystem has a monitoring tool in the box, but it is not advanced. I need a more advanced tool for more advanced equations and monitoring. All top three storage vendors, that is, EMC, IBM, and Pure Storage, don't have a powerful monitoring tool. To monitor our box to show the statistics for I/Os and latency, I need to pay for extra software. The built-in monitoring storage is not mature enough to handle all requests and generate all reports that I need. They can include the functionality to stretch a cluster natively without using any additional boxes. In addition, there are some features that EMC has integrated with the box. These features are not available in IBM FlashSystem."
"I would like to see an improvement in the handling of large amounts of rights."
"Customization features must be improved."
Hitachi NAS Platform is ranked 15th in NAS with 8 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews. Hitachi NAS Platform is rated 6.8, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hitachi NAS Platform writes "Easy-to-manage product with efficient backup features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Hitachi NAS Platform is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Qumulo, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Hitachi NAS Platform vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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