What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform?

In our company, we only pay towards the licensing charges associated with Forcepoint, as Hitachi is considered to be a third-party product for us.

Considering the solution's price, it is very competitive compared to the other competitors in the market. I rate the product price a nine out of ten. My company purchases the licenses for the solution in a bundle, owing to which our company gets a very competitive price compared to the pricing models offered by its competitors.

The pricing is very competitive compared to other vendors. It really depends on the type of media we're using, like SaaS, SSP, or NVMe.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is a very expensive product. The cost of the product depends upon the company's customers' requirements, so if they require higher redundancy, then the product will become more cost-effective for them.

It is an expensive product. I rate its pricing a three out of ten.

Hitachi solutions are a little more expensive. However, they are still in the realm of the competition. As long-time users, I'd advise other users to spend more time with the Hitachi consultant. Some licensing needs to be considered in order to find ways to save money. You can do different things to achieve your goals without purchasing a license. Experts will give you many different ideas of how to achieve your goals.

Hitachi VSP's pricing is good compared to other brands. Ultimately, it boils down to a numbers game. The pricing is currently competitive, whereas, in the past, it was not.

The price is good enough considering the performance, and we are satisfied.

A drawback of Hitachi storage systems is that they are expensive. The upfront cost is very high compared to others. But when you compare the IOPS at the same price, Hitachi gives you better business value; their IOPS are always higher than the competitors', but the price may be higher. In terms of licensing, of course, we talk with the customer about what they need. If they need this feature right now and that feature later on, we discuss that with Hitachi and the licensing model will be defined accordingly, before the sale of the product. Afterward, when the customer asks us to add a license as we had discussed, we can add the license. But if a customer didn't discuss with us any kind of future licensing from a feature perspective, buying that license later on, in general, will be very expensive. Before the sale, there's no problem creating a near-cost-effective solution. But getting a license later on is really costly.

I am not involved in purchasing, but my impression is that the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is cost-effective.

We haven't had to scale it yet and we don't have plans to increase our usage of it at the moment.

It is cheap. It is not very expensive. If you decide to expand the system, the cost is pretty low as compared to other vendors, such as Dell.

We pay for a support contract agreement.

All the software licenses are bundled with the storage hardware. I'm not the purchasing guy, so I do not negotiate prices. When the company makes a purchasing decision, I only provide the technical requirements. The price is a question for the purchasing department.

It always depends on what technology you need. Because if you need a very fast flash disk, it's going to be more expensive obviously. But if you need a backup solution, it's fine, because the technology is advanced, but it fits in some cases.

It is expensive as compared to other vendors, but its price is good if you are looking for stability, reliability, performance, and security.

It is expensive. Everything is included in the license. There is no additional cost.

Compared with other vendors, there is a lot of competition that provides the same cost, with more features.

This is an expensive solution.

This solution is cheaper than Dell EMC VMAX. When you are looking for a high-end solution, price matters, but availability and stability are more important than the price. Companies are looking for stability and sustainability, and the price, but as I said, it's not as important as stability and sustainability.

This solution is less expensive than the EMC VMAX series. When you are looking for high-end solutions such as this, price is less important than stability and availability.

We don't have a monthly license for this product. We just got it up front. We are in the governmental sector, so it was very cheap for us. This version on the market is priced at a much higher cost. Since we are in government, we got a discount. We grew and the purchase needed additions since the time of installation.