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."Dell's technical support team is good."
"It is 100% stable. It is also scalable."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"It is a stable platform."
"This product is very competitive."
"The scalability is good."
"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor."
"This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"As an architect, I like the management features that come with Hitachi Content Platform because it makes things easy."
"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 features that I have found most valuable are their retention logs. The other thing I have found most valuable is the way they handle the BHEA. Basically the DNS and everything is managed by itself. It is seamless to the users."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the versioning and the ransomware protection."
"Companies can scale the solution."
"The way that they handle the DR is very good because when there is a failover, it is seamless to the users."
"Feature-wise, it has a lot of features. The most valuable features include de-duplication, encryption, version controlling, support, and tamper-proof data."
"The product provides the fastest technology."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"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 could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
"The solution could be more cost-effective and secure."
"They do not have complete documentation, which is very weak and could be improved."
"Its security can be improved."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"The only thing is that it should be more cost effective."
"The solution could use more integration with clouds."
"Hitachi Content Platform is a complicated solution. You need to put several pieces of the hardware together in order to achieve the capacity or the performance needed."
"This product's ability to track logs for access still needs to be improved."
"What is lacking in this solution is a simple process to migrate from existing systems."
"At present, it is complicated to use the CLI command."
"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."
"They should improve the user interface. It's a little bit complex. It does not have a self-learning method. You need to know how to use it before you touch the system. The user interface is not self-explanatory."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Hitachi Content Platform is ranked 16th 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, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Cloudian HyperStore. See our Dell ECS vs. Hitachi Content Platform report.
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