Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance compete in the hyperconverged infrastructure category. Hitachi has an edge in customer satisfaction with pricing and support, while StarWind is preferred for features despite a premium cost.
Features: Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series provides robust data security, extensive integration with existing systems, and scalability. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers cost-efficient storage management, simplified scalability, and performance optimization tools tailored for performance-critical applications.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Hitachi ensures a straightforward deployment process and strong customer service, benefiting from detailed support documentation for enterprise-scale deployments. StarWind provides a streamlined deployment with easy configuration and personalized customer service, facilitating a quicker learning curve.
Pricing and ROI: Hitachi's setup costs are higher, justified by seamless integration and long-term ROI, suitable for large-scale environments. StarWind offers a budget-friendly initial setup and competitive ROI, ideal for small to medium-sized businesses seeking a quicker return without extensive upfront investment.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| StarWind HyperConverged Appliance | 1.1% |
| Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series | 0.6% |
| Other | 98.3% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 50 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 8 |
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) is the company's product for converged infrastructure (CI), combining resources server, storage, networking, virtualization, and software management.
For SMB, ROBO and Enterprises, who look to bring in quick deployment and operation simplicity to virtualization workloads and reduce related expenses, our solution is StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, hypervisor of choice, StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN and associated software into a single manageable layer. The HCA supports scale-up by adding disks and flash, and scale-out by adding extra nodes.
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance consists of StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN “Ready Nodes”, targeting those, who are building their virtualization infrastructure from scratch. In case there is an existing set of servers, we offer a “software only version”, which is essentially our years proven StarWind Virtual SAN. Basically, it’s the fuel powering StarWind HCA.
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