I would suggest that Hitachi make a NAS box that can work independently, without relying on SAN connectivity. The current solution only suits customers who already have a Hitachi SAN environment and want to add NAS protocols like NFS and CIFS. It's not suitable for customers without an existing SAN, as they would first need to acquire the SAN infrastructure before adding NAS functionality.
Product Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Reseller
Top 5
2024-10-28T09:33:00Z
Oct 28, 2024
Hitachi NAS Platform needs to improve by offering a unified storage solution. Due to budget constraints in regions like Southeast Asia, customers prefer a single machine that can handle all problems, which the current platform does not provide.
Engineer at Secretaria de Educacion del Gobierno del Estado de Mexico
Reseller
2023-08-03T18:32:00Z
Aug 3, 2023
I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product. I had to back up all the old installations and configurations in the media architecture.
IT Senior Consultant at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
Consultant
2020-07-12T11:48:52Z
Jul 12, 2020
The solution could be improved if they would provide information on the agility of their products, and the scaling of it in order to increase the power of its capacity so you could know whether it needs different configuration. This issue exists in many products, it's not specific to Hitachi. The monitoring tool is not well developed and my guess is that the companies are not investing too much money in this area. An additional feature that would be helpful would be the ability to increase and decrease the size of the file system dynamically and easily. Right now that's not the case. The Hitachi snapshot technique is of course less powerful than the competition is offering in many ways, so it would be better to resolve this.
Manager Technical Sales at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Real User
2020-03-23T06:14:20Z
Mar 23, 2020
We would like to have a more economical version of this solution that is suitable for use with a mid-range scale, such as one that can handle between 35,000 and 50,000 users. The manageability needs to be improved, as the interface for doing so is not that great. I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS.
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. It is an old-school gateway NAS solution, so for me, it is not good.
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I would suggest that Hitachi make a NAS box that can work independently, without relying on SAN connectivity. The current solution only suits customers who already have a Hitachi SAN environment and want to add NAS protocols like NFS and CIFS. It's not suitable for customers without an existing SAN, as they would first need to acquire the SAN infrastructure before adding NAS functionality.
I rated Hitachi NAS a seven out of ten, primarily due to the interface or insufficient improvements in certain areas.
Hitachi NAS Platform needs to improve by offering a unified storage solution. Due to budget constraints in regions like Southeast Asia, customers prefer a single machine that can handle all problems, which the current platform does not provide.
Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors.
Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive.
I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product. I had to back up all the old installations and configurations in the media architecture.
Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface.
The solution could be improved if they would provide information on the agility of their products, and the scaling of it in order to increase the power of its capacity so you could know whether it needs different configuration. This issue exists in many products, it's not specific to Hitachi. The monitoring tool is not well developed and my guess is that the companies are not investing too much money in this area. An additional feature that would be helpful would be the ability to increase and decrease the size of the file system dynamically and easily. Right now that's not the case. The Hitachi snapshot technique is of course less powerful than the competition is offering in many ways, so it would be better to resolve this.
We would like to have a more economical version of this solution that is suitable for use with a mid-range scale, such as one that can handle between 35,000 and 50,000 users. The manageability needs to be improved, as the interface for doing so is not that great. I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS.
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. It is an old-school gateway NAS solution, so for me, it is not good.