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."The performance is good."
"Dell ECS is a cost-effective solution that provides ease of use and availability."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"The technology is very good, it performs well."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"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."
"Companies can scale the solution."
"Integrating Hitachi Content Platform with existing systems is not challenging."
"The way that they handle the DR is very good because when there is a failover, it is seamless to the users."
"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 product provides the fastest technology."
"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 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."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"It is a good solution, except for the cost."
"Dell ECS needs to improve its performance."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"The solution could be more cost-effective and secure."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"Dell EMC ECS should support segregation of duty, particularly for role-based access controls. Having a single pane of glass for smarter observation and better control mechanism would also make this solution better."
"Two things that can be improved are pricing and configuration. Mostly the pricing is an issue. And if I were to add anything, I would say more integration with backup solutions such as Veeam Backup."
"The only thing is that it should be more cost effective."
"There is room for improvement in the capacity for integration with other platforms."
"This product's ability to track logs for access still needs to be improved."
"In terms of the customer support, I can say it's a mixed reaction depending on the country."
"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."
"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."
"What is lacking in this solution is a simple process to migrate from existing systems."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Hitachi Content Platform is ranked 15th 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, NetApp StorageGRID, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and IBM Cloud Object Storage. See our Dell ECS vs. Hitachi Content Platform report.
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