Hitachi NAS Platform vs Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform comparison

Hitachi NAS Platform vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

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Categories and Ranking

Hitachi NAS Platform

Ranking in NAS

17th

Average Rating

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Hitachi Virtual Storage Pla...

Ranking in NAS

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) (4th), Frame-Based Disk Arrays (1st), All-Flash Storage (13th), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the NAS category, the mindshare of Hitachi NAS Platform is 4.2%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is 5.7%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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German Vazquez

Engineer at Secretaria de Educacion del Gobierno del Estado de Mexico

Aug 3, 2023

Easy-to-manage product with efficient backup features

The product offers a complete solution I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product. I had to back up all the old installations and configurations in the media architecture. I have been using Hitachi NAS Platform for two years. It is an easily scalable solution. I have…

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FarrukhSyed

Head of Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Apr 20, 2023

It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture

I work for one of the largest commercial banks in Pakistan. We deploy Hitachi Virtual Storage in our primary data center and our remote disaster recovery site. It is used for all banking applications like credit and debit card transactions, reconciliation, general ledger, etc. The bank has…

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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

"The most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance."

"Simple and extremely reliable."

"Hitachi is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload."

"Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable."

"The product has valuable features for data migration."

"The product’s technical support services are good."

"The pricing of this solution is good, which is an advantage that positions this product well."

"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."

"The customer service and support are reasonably good. The environment I work in, there always remains an element of surprise, and there are restrictions. But Hitachi has good technical people."

"This is one of the most reliable and dependable products on the market."

"It's a state of the art solution in storage systems. High-availability and performance are the strongest aspects of these machines."

"This is a good product with high capabilities and high reliability."

"The biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."

"The efficiency ratio is just as high as advertised. It's very high relative to other storage solutions as well. The compression and deduplication capabilities are also very high."

"The most valuable features are external storage virtualization and the 100 percent data guaranteed availability."

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Cons

"I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS."

"Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive."

"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product."

"The monitoring tool is not well developed."

"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."

"Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors."

"Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface."

"The pricing is high, but the product is good. Additional features like data duplication might make it even better."

"The software has always been lagging a bit compared to the newer features. It usually takes a cycle for it to catch up."

"I would like to see an audit account set up such that the user can log in, see the configuration, and see the logs, but they cannot make any changes."

"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform needs to improve its scalability options where there are a few shortcomings."

"The initial deployment was somewhat complex when it came to the installation because of the network connectivity. It was more difficult, in this specific case, than with other platforms."

"The solution is stable. However, there have been some software crashes where we had to restart the system. They could improve the hardware to prevent this type of issue."

"It seemed like every time we turned around it was a statement of work and we'd have to pay for something that our previous vendors would not have billed us for."

"There is a drawback related to Hitachi's configuration flexibility. The Hitachi storage platform solution is not flexible. That means that both the Hitachi and the partner presale guys have to do a lot of work to design a solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the solution's pricing six to seven out of ten."

"This solution is priced well and there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"Costs are based on the features and it is a considerable amount."

"Hitachi NAS Platform’s price is high and depends on SCSI disc capacity."

"It is a highly-priced product."

"Considering the solution's price, it is very competitive compared to the other competitors in the market. I rate the product price a nine out of ten."

"It is an expensive product. I rate its pricing a three out of ten."

"Pricing could be better, because the cost is very high."

"The price of the solution is reasonable. However, I have not done extensive comparative research on the price. If you want to upgrade the size of the disc you will need to purchase a license that accounts for the size."

"I would like to see better pricing and more discounts."

"In our company, we only pay towards the licensing charges associated with Forcepoint, as Hitachi is considered to be a third-party product for us."

"It is cheap. It is not very expensive. If you decide to expand the system, the cost is pretty low as compared to other vendors, such as Dell."

"It is expensive. Everything is included in the license. There is no additional cost."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Hiachi NAS Platform?

The product has valuable features for data migration.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hiachi NAS Platform?

It is a highly-priced product.

What needs improvement with Hiachi NAS Platform?

Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform?

I find Hitachi to be cheaper by five to ten percent when compared to Dell and HP's costs, but the features in Dell are better than Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. We have only eight terabytes of ...

What do you like most about Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E990?

The product's reliability has been crucial for our company's operations.

What needs improvement with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E990?

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform's GUI or interface for storage and management is a little bit difficult compared to Primera and HPE storage products. I want to see deduplication features in the Hi...

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Also Known As

Hitachi NAS

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform N Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series

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Overview

Hitachi NAS Platforms help you with file sharing, file server consolidation and application storage for Oracle, Microsoft and virtual environments. Deploy the highest performance per node in the industry. Apply capacity efficiencies that let you actually do more, but with a lot less. Realize significant cost savings for your organization.

RETHINK YOUR DEFINITION OF SPEED AND PERFORMANCE

With adaptive, guaranteed data reduction and a 100% data-availability guarantee, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F series helps you tackle complicated business challenges. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) VSP F series delivers up to 4.8M IOPS with sub-millisecond response times.
Featuring legendary Hitachi reliability, VSP F series arrays are backed by the industries only 100% availability guarantee. For these reasons, 80% of the Fortune 500 choose Hitachi all-flash arrays to accelerate the performance of mission-critical applications like Oracle, SAP, Virtualization, Microsoft apps etc. With over 350 patents in flash technology, Hitachi’s innovative mix of flash hardware and software accelerates ROI with enterprise-class reliability and performance.

Sample Customers

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Turkcell, Owens Corning, Region Nord, Net Credit Financial Group (NFC Group), Russian Railways

Hitachi NAS Platform vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform