The Hitachi NAS Platform and StarWind Storage Appliance are competitors in the storage market. StarWind Storage Appliance currently holds an advantage due to its superior features.
Features: Hitachi NAS Platform offers robust scalability, strong integration capabilities, and excellent data migration support, beneficial for large-scale operations. StarWind Storage Appliance focuses on high-availability architecture, efficient data protection, and performance-enhancing all-flash arrays for superior redundancy.
Room for Improvement: Hitachi NAS Platform could enhance its ease of deployment and user interface to reduce the learning curve. StarWind Storage Appliance may improve cost efficiency for initial investments and simplify some advanced configurations for users unfamiliar with clustering.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Hitachi NAS Platform offers strong customer support, which is ideal for complex integrations but involves a steeper deployment learning curve. StarWind Storage Appliance provides straightforward deployment and proactive customer support, leading to quicker implementation times.
Pricing and ROI: Hitachi NAS Platform is more budget-friendly and offers a quick ROI due to competitive upfront costs. StarWind Storage Appliance, despite higher initial expenses, promises better long-term ROI through advanced performance capabilities.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Hitachi NAS Platform | 2.6% |
| StarWind Storage Appliance | 1.2% |
| Other | 96.2% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 5 |
| Large Enterprise | 2 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 3 |
| Large Enterprise | 2 |
For SMB and Enterprises who are looking for high performance primary storage for server virtualization, VDI, database and Big Data scenarios, or inexpensive secondary backup tier, our solution is StarWind Storage Appliance. It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, and associated software into an easily scalable storage platform.
Additionally, the appliance features an optional gateway to Azure public cloud, which helps to implement an effective Disaster Recovery plan or meet regulatory requirements. StarWind SA scales up by adding individual disks and flash modules, or JBODs, while adding ready controller nodes allows scaling out.
StarWind SA targets those, who need high-performance primary storage or secondary storage for backup. In case there is a whole virtualization infrastructure to build from scratch, StarWind HCA will come in handy. Otherwise, if all the required hardware is present, StarWind Virtual SAN will be enough to build a high-performance virtualization setup.
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