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HGST ActiveScale

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Hitachi Content Platform

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File and Object Storage
March 2024
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Mir Gulzar Ahmed
Integrates well with existing systems but technical support for the platform needs improvement
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  • "Pricing is comparable to other solutions in the market."
  • "The pricing could be better."
  • "The price of the Hitachi Content Platform is very high."
  • "Overall, it's costly."
  • "I think the ROI for this solution is very good because the pricing for it is in between other solutions."
  • "The product’s cost is average."
  • "Hitachi is more expensive than StorageGRID."

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    What do you like most about Hitachi Content Platform?
    Top Answer:Integrating Hitachi Content Platform with existing systems is not challenging.
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    What needs improvement with Hitachi Content Platform?
    Top Answer: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. Another area of improvement is support. Technical support needs… more »
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    What is your primary use case for Hitachi Content Platform?
    Top Answer:We proposed its consultation to our clients and have explored it further. This is important because we partnered with HST, who provided a demonstration box and shipped it from UAE to Pakistan for the… more »
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    Ranking
    25th
    out of 49 in File and Object Storage
    Views
    56
    Comparisons
    47
    Reviews
    0
    Average Words per Review
    0
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    15th
    out of 49 in File and Object Storage
    Views
    1,647
    Comparisons
    1,014
    Reviews
    3
    Average Words per Review
    520
    Rating
    7.5
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    Also Known As
    Active Archive System, ActiveScale P100, ActiveScale X100
    HCP, Hitachi Vantara Content Platform, Hitachi Vantara HCP
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    Western Digital
    Hitachi Vantara
    Overview

    Big Data insights enable Fast Data applications. Your data can generate value when it’s aggregated, analyzed, and applied to business decisions. We live for long-term data preservation, and our ActiveScale object storage systems are changing the economics of data. The ActiveScale system architecture is designed for petabyte-scale datasets, facilitates storing data forever, and takes full advantage of our component-to-system vertical innovation.

    Hitachi Content Platform is an object storage solution that enables IT organizations and cloud service providers to store, share, sync, protect, preserve, analyze and retrieve file data from a single system. It is more efficient, easier to use, and capable of handling much more data than traditional file storage solutions. HCP automates day-to-day IT operations like data protection and readily evolves to changes in scale, scope, applications, storage, server and cloud technologies over the life of data. In IT environements where data grows quickly or must live for years, decades or even indefinitely, these capabilities are invaluable.

    Sample Customers
    EPFL, Illumination Mac Guff
    Rabobank, Xinhua News Agency, Kremsm'ller Industrieanlagenbau KG, KSC Commercial Internet, AIS Group, Shanghai Interactive Television Co. Ltd (SiTV), China Telecom, Spin Master
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm27%
    Computer Software Company19%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise50%
    Large Enterprise17%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    HGST ActiveScale is ranked 25th in File and Object Storage while Hitachi Content Platform is ranked 15th in File and Object Storage with 12 reviews. HGST ActiveScale is rated 0.0, while Hitachi Content Platform is rated 8.2. 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". HGST ActiveScale is most compared with , whereas Hitachi Content Platform is most compared with Dell ECS, MinIO, NetApp StorageGRID, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerScale (Isilon).

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