We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and Hitachi Content Platform 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."This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"This product is very competitive."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"Dell ECS is a cost-effective solution that provides ease of use and availability."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"The tool is easy to use."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the versioning and the ransomware protection."
"Companies can scale the solution."
"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 Hitachi Content Platform is a stable and reliable solution."
"Hitachi is a big company, so it's a very strong product."
"As an architect, I like the management features that come with Hitachi Content Platform because it makes things easy."
"The way that they handle the DR is very good because when there is a failover, it is seamless to the users."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their retention logs. The other thing I have found most valuable is the way they handle the BHEA. Basically the DNS and everything is managed by itself. It is seamless to the users."
"They could provide centralized reports."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"The troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly."
"The disaster recovery could be improved because there should be something in-built within the ECS. Search and recovery should be in-built. Right now, we have to use some external tools for performing the recovery itself. For example, we're using Atempo or deploying Golden Superna, so it has dependency on the external third party vendors."
"The solution could use more integration with clouds."
"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."
"What is lacking in this solution is a simple process to migrate from existing systems."
"When you want to replace a disk, we need to start the maintenance from the S nodes. We have to automate maintenance so any onsite engineer can replace it after that, but we don't need to do this on VSP platforms. An engineer can come in and replace that specific disk. If also we could do that on Hitachi Content Platform, it would be great for us."
"The only thing is that it should be more cost effective."
"Hitachi Content Platform is a complicated solution. You need to put several pieces of the hardware together in order to achieve the capacity or the performance needed."
"There is room for improvement in the capacity for integration with other platforms."
"At present, it is complicated to use the CLI command."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Hitachi Content Platform is ranked 16th in File and Object Storage with 12 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Hitachi Content Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Content Platform writes " Integrates well with existing systems but technical support for the platform needs improvement". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO and Cloudian HyperStore, whereas Hitachi Content Platform is most compared with MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Cloudian HyperStore. See our Dell ECS vs. Hitachi Content Platform report.
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