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."It has allowed us to have more consistent quality controls. It has also allowed us to expand the number of servers in clients processing and accessing data, allowing us to get a lot bigger projects out the door."
"The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature."
"This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"Its most valuable feature is the DR capabilities replication."
"PowerScale has made it extremely easy to scale file data across our organization. We have two implementations of Isilon. One is a replica of the other. When scaling, we add nodes to each location and expand the cluster. The process is straightforward."
"Isilon is flexible in supporting various data workloads while keeping them protected. Dell continues to release updates and patches which enhance the use of this solution. This includes offering ransomware protection."
"I don't have to rebuild the cluster to add a node."
"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 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 most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance."
"The product’s technical support services are good."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable."
"The product has valuable features for data migration."
"Simple and extremely reliable."
"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"We used to have a chat feature available on the support site. It's not available to us anymore."
"The legacy file system for Epsilon didn't scale into the cloud and didn't have a separate OS. It would be key if this was made possible."
"It is a bit higher priced than some of the other systems."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"Because of the magic that it does 'under the hood,' it is very difficult to find out within the system where all your storage is going. That's a little bit of a ding that we have on it. It does so much magic in order to protect itself from drive failures or multiple drive failures, that it automatically handles the provisioning and storage of your data. But by doing that, finding out why a file of a certain size, or a directory of a certain size, is using more storage than is being reported in InsightIQ, is very difficult to discern."
"The monitoring tool is not well developed."
"Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors."
"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."
"I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS."
"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product."
"Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 37 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 "Easy-to-manage product with efficient backup features ". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, 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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