We performed a comparison between Hitachi Content Platform and MinIO based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Integrating Hitachi Content Platform with existing systems is not challenging."
"We are using Content Platform for data migration, and it integrates with our HNS platform. This is good because we can integrate it with our existing HNS and SAP solutions. The GUI is also user-friendly. It doesn't take much time to do anything. If we know the architecture and the steps, we can do what we need with a few clicks."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the versioning and the ransomware protection."
"The way that they handle the DR is very good because when there is a failover, it is seamless to the users."
"One of the most hidden valuable features is ensuring that you don't have bit rot, so it will go and check every single object that's stored on the system, then ensure that if there's a problem, it'll be repaired from either a local copy or remote copy, depending upon your configuration."
"The product provides the fastest technology."
"Feature-wise, it has a lot of features. The most valuable features include de-duplication, encryption, version controlling, support, and tamper-proof data."
"The Hitachi Content Platform is a stable and reliable solution."
"The initial setup was very easy - one click, and it was installed."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"The container installation features are good. The S3 feature provisions the storage buckets making it easy. It allows me to spin up the public buckets with open-source technology."
"The initial setup was straightforward as MinIO provided good support documentation and took a couple of days to complete."
"The most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"The features that I have found most valuable with MinIO is its coding bit rot protection and how it distributes the workload over all the servers."
"I like that if you have a problem, you can buy the home server. It is stable and robust."
"The solution has good compatibility with different kinds of storage."
"At present, it is complicated to use the CLI command."
"In terms of the customer support, I can say it's a mixed reaction depending on the country."
"There is room for improvement in the capacity for integration with other platforms."
"The user interface isn't as user-friendly, and the management platform UI isn't as intuitive as others. So it can be more user-friendly."
"They should improve the user interface. It's a little bit complex. It does not have a self-learning method. You need to know how to use it before you touch the system. The user interface is not self-explanatory."
"This product's ability to track logs for access still needs to be improved."
"The solution could use more integration with clouds."
"What is lacking in this solution is a simple process to migrate from existing systems."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"Documentation could be improved."
"The MinIO dashboard is minimal as there are only a couple of features inside the dashboard for a basic user. I would like this to be more robust with more click-around features."
"The monitoring capability is really bad and needs to be improved."
"We had minor bugs occasionally."
"With problems, visibility is hard because everything is in containers. Difficult to get to the logs in order to figure out what the problem was."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
Hitachi Content Platform is ranked 16th in File and Object Storage with 12 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Hitachi Content Platform is rated 8.2, while MinIO is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hitachi Content Platform writes " Integrates well with existing systems but technical support for the platform needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". Hitachi Content Platform is most compared with Dell ECS, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Cloudian HyperStore, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and IBM Cloud Object Storage. See our Hitachi Content Platform vs. MinIO report.
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