Cloudian HyperStore vs Zadara comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Cloudian HyperStore and Zadara compete in the cloud storage market. Zadara holds the upper hand with its comprehensive features justified by its cost.

Features: Cloudian HyperStore offers high scalability, S3 compatibility, and robust security features, making it ideal for businesses needing large data storage solutions. Zadara offers strong multi-cloud support, consistent performance, and features like automation and analytics, making it attractive for versatile storage needs.

Room for Improvement: Cloudian HyperStore could enhance its multi-cloud capabilities and offer more advanced analytics. Its automation features can be less intuitive compared to Zadara. Meanwhile, Zadara could improve in offering a more straightforward pricing model for smaller enterprises and enhance support for hybrid cloud setups.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cloudian HyperStore provides a straightforward deployment process and strong customer support, especially useful for businesses with limited IT resources. Zadara facilitates seamless onboarding and efficient deployment with exceptional customer support that offers tailored solutions for diverse customer environments.

Pricing and ROI: Cloudian HyperStore provides competitive pricing and solid ROI through cost-effective scalability. Zadara, although initially higher in cost, offers advanced features that promise long-term ROI by enhancing operational efficiency and flexibility. It delivers substantial long-term benefits, balancing cost-effectiveness with value-added features.

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Cloudian HyperStore vs. Zadara

December 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudian HyperStore

Ranking in File and Object Storage

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zadara

Ranking in File and Object Storage

20th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (32nd), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (17th), Compute Service (11th), Public Cloud Storage Services (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of Cloudian HyperStore is 3.0%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zadara is 0.6%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

File and Object Storage

Featured Reviews

Kiran Rajanna

Senior Solutions Architect and Cloud Security Consultant at Cgi Deutschland KG

A seamless solution offering data encryption, quality service, and security encryption

Cloudian HyperStore needs to incorporate AI and predictive analysis. It would be helpful if the solution could analyze and predict how to manage data better. The end users should not have access to protected documents. They should be able to drop the documents. The capacity management dashboard can be better. We also want two-factor authentication using Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator as MFA. Hence, the user would access the console not just by logging in with a password and username but with third-party applications as well.

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Kirubel Behailu

Cloud System Engineer at cloud251

Enhancing storage management efficiency with user-friendly experience

Our customers are using Zadara for their research and development environments. We provide infrastructure for government projects, but we are often not fully aware of their specific usage. I typically use it for our infrastructure and offer both Zadara and Microsoft Azure to our customers Zadara…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is very durable and that is particularly important."

"The most valuable features are its scalability and Amazon S3 compatibility because we can move back and forth with a hybrid cloud."

"The cost was the main reason we chose to use this solution."

"The tool has S3 capability. Its scalability is excellent. From a security and encryption perspective, the solution supports SSL encryption. It is a seamless solution offering data encryption, quality service, and security encryption."

"Zadara Storage Cloud having 24/7 management saves me support and engineering costs because the storage and computing are managed by a third-party. We are able to focus more attention on the customer, which is truly our core business. Even at 1:00 AM or 2:00 AM at night, someone will answer, which is important."

"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of deployment options."

"I find Zadara's user-friendliness from both the customer and engineering perspectives highly appreciated."

"A nice feature is the immutable object storage, which can be used in conjunction with Veeam."

"One of the most valuable features is its integration with other cloud solutions. We have a presence within Amazon EC2 and we leverage compute instances in there. Being able to integrate with compute, both locally within Zadara, as well as with other cloud vendors such as Amazon, is very helpful, while also being able to maintain extremely low latency between those connections."

"The most valuable features of Zadara are its visibility and simplicity to use."

"Being able to scale on demand, and being able to get out of our security operation center, and not having to purchase hardware upfront, has drastically reduced the overhead that was required to maintain our information. We have also gained additional capabilities in terms of speed of replicating that information."

"The processing is much faster with this product."

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Cons

"It is a cloud-based environment and at times, it is not very simple to use."

"Cloudian HyperStore needs to incorporate AI and predictive analysis. It would be helpful if the solution could analyze and predict how to manage data better. The end users should not have access to protected documents. They should be able to drop the documents. The capacity management dashboard can be better. We also want two-factor authentication using Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator as MFA. Hence, the user would access the console not just by logging in with a password and username but with third-party applications as well."

"As it is an S3 solution with the same protocol as the one we have with AWS, having better integration with AWS will be beneficial."

"Currently, when we do firmware upgrades, it sometimes causes issues and is not as nondisruptive as desired."

"I would like to see them be a little bit more proactive in terms of the patches and updates that are available. I would like to see more disclosure and information around what fixes or what enhancements are available within a patch, and help in coordinating and scheduling that. Right now, it's driven more by the customer in reaching out via a support ticket."

"There are still some storage features that they lack. For example, other vendors implemented the auto-tiering feature a long time ago, while Zadara Storage Cloud is just coming out with this feature today. So, they are a little bit late compared to the market."

"The management interface is more geared towards end-users rather than a service partner like ourselves, and there are improvements that can be made around that."

"Some of the features are a little bit slow to come to market."

"Having iSCSI over the internet using a VPN, the IPSec tunnel is really the only thing that I find missing from this product."

"Cost-wise, because it's a pay-per-use model, it may ultimately end up costing us more in the long run than something we developed ourselves."

"There is room for improvement in pricing as it is currently quite expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is cheap."

"Our fees are approximately half a dollar per gigabyte."

"One of the factors that ruled out several providers was cost. They were way too expensive for the volume of data that we needed and the speed at which we needed to be able to manage it. There aren't a lot of providers that can do that."

"The price of Zadara is very good and it covers everything. There is no subscription needed."

"It is a nice licensing model and it makes it quite simple because we just pay for what we use, and the bill that comes shows us exactly what customers are using what resources."

"The pricing is very competitive and the fact that they have very compelling discounts for multi-year commitments is great."

"For our use, it's appropriately priced and overall, it's proved to be very cost-effective against other tier-one vendors."

"The pricing and licensing are very simple and the cost is predictable, although, like everything that you pay for as you use, you have to be mindful of what you're using."

"If you just take the street price of Zadara Storage Cloud and look up the price or cost per hour, then you could think that Zadara Storage Cloud is extremely expensive or a solution only for enterprise use. That is not true. You need to compare the entire system. This means that you don't stop looking at just the street price, but you need to consider all the features, requirements, and costs of support as well as the extra cost that other vendors have. Other players just play with hidden, additional costs. Everything is included in Zadara Storage Cloud's licensing cost; what you get is what you pay for."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

33%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

21%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cloudian HyperStore?

The tool has S3 capability. Its scalability is excellent. From a security and encryption perspective, the solution supports SSL encryption. It is a seamless solution offering data encryption, quali...

What needs improvement with Cloudian HyperStore?

What is your primary use case for Cloudian HyperStore?

We use the product to stage timesheets.

What needs improvement with Zadara?

There is room for improvement in pricing as it is currently quite expensive. Adding AI capabilities could enhance the offering as well.

What is your primary use case for Zadara?

What advice do you have for others considering Zadara?

If companies have the budget, I recommend Zadara for small business classes due to its robust performance and user-friendliness. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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Overview

Cloudian HyperStore lets you start small and grow to hundreds of petabytes on-premises simply by adding nodes. Leverage the proven interoperability of the industry’s only 100% native S3 API.

Zadara is a powerful enterprise-level storage solution whose design enables it to handle every aspect of a user’s data storage needs. It can be deployed in any location, using any protocol, and storing any data type that an organization requires. With Zadara, organizations can do everything that they were able to do with more traditional systems in a cheaper and more efficient way.

Zadara Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by choosing to deploy Zadara include:

Security. Zadara is built with data security in mind. All of a user’s data is heavily encrypted by Zadara’s software so that it is safe both while it is in storage and while it is being transferred somewhere else. It comes with role-based access controls that prevent a user’s data from being seen by those who lack the proper level of authorization. It also comes with dual-factor authentication and other similar methods of identity management.

Reduced costs. While Zadara offers enterprise-level storage capabilities, the costs associated with utilizing it are far less than those of similar solutions. Some of the resources that it offers are totally free of cost. The model that it utilizes is a pay-as-you-go model. Organizations only pay for the resources that they use and nothing more. Users are not required to sign up for any particular period of time. They are in complete and total control of what they spend on the solution.

Storage efficiency. Zadara ensures that users are able to store their data in the most efficient way possible. It takes a number of approaches that prevent insufficient data storage. These approaches are:

1. Thin-provision volumes. This method only allows actually written data to be counted toward the storage capacity that is consumed.

2. Pattern removal. Zadara searches a user’s stored data for repetitive binary sequences. Once it identifies the repetitive binary sequences, it deletes them.

3. Inline deduplication (all-flash only). This method ensures that Zadara only stores unique data blocks in its system.

4. Inline compression. Zadara takes data that is stored in its system and compresses it. This keeps larger blocks of data from taking up too much room.

Zadara Features

Centralized management. Zadara comes with a centralized dashboard that enables organizations to monitor and control their storage operations from a single location.

File analytics. Organizations can leverage a powerful analytics package that can provide them with critical insights. These tools can help users sort through their data and make more informed data management decisions.

Remote mirroring. This feature enables users to replicate data in two remote locations at the same time. This makes it easy for data to be recovered in the event of an unexpected loss. It also aids remote teams in their collaboration efforts by giving them access to the same data at the same time.

Reviews from Real Users

Zadara is a highly effective solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Two major advantages it offers are its extensive suite of cloud solution integrations and its object storage capability.

Steve H., the chief technology officer at Pratum, writes, “One of the most valuable features is its integration with other cloud solutions. We have a presence within Amazon EC2 and we leverage computer instances there. Being able to integrate with computing, both locally within Zadara, as well as with other cloud vendors such as Amazon, is very helpful, while also being able to maintain extremely low latency between those connections.”

Mauro R., the CEO of Momit SRL, says, “The object storage feature is wonderful. With traditional storage, you have a cost per gigabyte that is extremely high or related to the number of disks. With Zadara Storage Cloud, you have a cost per gigabyte that you can cut and tailor to your needs independent of the number or size of the disks.”

Sample Customers

NTT Communications, Casale, Kumo

Time, Inc. A&E Network, The Washington Post, News UK, McGraw Hill, Gilt, Toshiba, Deloitte, VMware