We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Hitachi NAS Platform 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 tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"I don't have to rebuild the cluster to add a node."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is all the capabilities together."
"The guaranteed performance, combined with the scalability through its scale-out capability, makes it an excellent choice."
"The most valuable feature we started using, beyond the initial scope for the solution, is the multi-protocol system that allows you to access the same set of files using different network protocols like NFS or SMB. PowerScale’s Unified Permission Model ensures that data security and access permissions are honoured regardless of whether the client is a Windows desktop or a Linux server"
"This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"The solution's scalability is very good."
"PowerScale helped free up our employees' time to focus on other business priorities. There are now automated jobs such as backing up and replicating data, that reduce the footprint we have. Those types of tasks were previously done manually."
"The product’s technical support services are good."
"The product has valuable features for data migration."
"Simple and extremely reliable."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable."
"The pricing of this solution is good, which is an advantage that positions this product well."
"Hitachi is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload."
"The UID mapping and how to configure mapping-related things is a struggle."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"If they integrated some functions, as they have on Data Domain with a cyber recovery vault, it would be ideal."
"The management and monitoring tools comprise a disparate suite of products and the roadmap is very unclear. We've got four different products that look after the Isilon, management-wise, and it's a bit of a mess."
"The solution isn't suitable for small environments or small customers."
"We lost our technical sales reps about two years ago. We haven't gotten one assigned to us and we'd love to have one."
"The thing that they are working on now, and we are following closely is more native cloud integrations. The way that we envision workloads in the future is around moving compute to data instead of the other way around. So, we would like to have a single pane glass to manage storage across a variety of different platforms, including native cloud. That would be awesome."
"I'd like to see more Iceland products in the cloud so that we can port our data into different environments if needed. I would also like to see a virtual appliance or software-defined Iceland product."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive."
"The monitoring tool is not well developed."
"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."
"Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors."
"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product."
"Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface."
"I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 40 reviews while Hitachi NAS Platform is ranked 15th in NAS with 8 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Hitachi NAS Platform is rated 6.8. The top reviewer of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) writes "We can easily deploy, manage, and maintain systems without needing a huge amount of expertise to facilitate them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi NAS Platform writes "Good pricing and works well, but it is old-fashioned and should be replaced with something new". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Hitachi NAS Platform is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, IBM FlashSystem and Qumulo. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Hitachi NAS Platform report.
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