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Contents
Vendor Directory 4
Top Vendors 5-6
Top Solutions by Ranking Factor 7
Focus on Solutions
Red Hat Ceph Storage 8-9
Pure Storage FlashBlade 10 - 12
SwiftStack 13 - 15
NetApp StorageGRID 16 - 18
EMC Elastic Cloud Storage 19 - 20
Hitachi Content Platform 21 - 22
Scality RING8 23 - 24
Cloudian HyperStore 25
Huawei FusionStorage 26 - 27
Qumulo 28
About This Report and IT Central Station 29
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Vendor Directory
Caringo Caringo Swarm MinIO MinIO
Cloudian Cloudian HyperStore NetApp NetApp StorageGRID
DataDirect Networks DDN WOS Nutanix Nutanix Files
Dell EMC EMC Elastic Cloud Storage Pure Storage Pure Storage FlashBlade
HGST HGST ActiveScale Qumulo Qumulo
Hitachi Hitachi Content Platform Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage
Huawei Huawei FusionStorage Scality Scality RING8
IBM IBM Cloud Object Storage StackPath StackPath Object Storage
Intel Intel DAOS StorageCraft StorageCraft OneBlox
Linode Linode Object Storage SwiftStack SwiftStack

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Top File and Object Storage Solutions

Over 416,070 professionals have used IT Central Station research. Here are the top File and Object Storage vendors based on product
reviews, ratings, and comparisons. All reviews and ratings are from real users, validated by our triple authentication process.
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Views Comparisons Reviews Words/Review Average Rating
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to another product IT Central Station on IT Central Station reviews
Bar length
The total ranking of a product, represented by the bar length, is based on a weighted aggregate score. The score is calculated as follows:
For each of Reviews, Views, and Comparisons, the product with the highest count in each area gets a maximum 18 points.
Every other product gets assigned points based on its total in proportion to the #1 product in that area.
For example, if a product has 80% of the number of reviews compared to the product with the most reviews then the product's points for reviews
would be 18 * 80% = 14.4.
Both Average Rating and Words/Review are awarded on a fixed linear scale.
For Average Rating, the maximum score is 28 points awarded linearly between 6-10 (e.g. 6 or below=0 points; 7.5=10.5 points; 9.0=21 points;
10=28 points).
For Words/Review, the maximum score is 18 points awarded linearly between 0-900 words (e.g. 600 words = 12 points; 750 words = 15 points;
900 or more words = 18 points).
If a product has fewer than ten reviews, the point contribution for Average Rating and Words/Review is reduced:
1/3 reduction in points for products with 5-9 reviews, two-thirds reduction for products with fewer than five reviews.
Reviews that are more than 24 months old, as well as those written by resellers, are completely excluded from the ranking algorithm.
All products with 50+ points are designated as a Leader in their category.
1 Red Hat Ceph Storage
26,976 views 19,928 comparisons 6 reviews 262 words/review 9.2 average rating
2 Pure Storage FlashBlade
3 SwiftStack
2,002 views 1,066 comparisons 6 reviews 1,837 words/review 8.5 average rating

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4 NetApp StorageGRID
5 EMC Elastic Cloud Storage
6 Hitachi Content Platform
7 Scality RING8
8 Cloudian HyperStore
9 Huawei FusionStorage
10 Qumulo
5,575 views 4,710 comparisons 0 reviews 0 words/review

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Top Solutions by Ranking Factor

Views
VIEWS
1 Red Hat Ceph Storage 26,976
2 EMC Elastic Cloud Storage 5,796
3 Qumulo 5,575
4 Scality RING8 4,311
5 NetApp StorageGRID 3,489
Reviews
REVIEWS
1 Pure Storage FlashBlade 13
2 Red Hat Ceph Storage 6
3 SwiftStack 6
4 NetApp StorageGRID 4
5 Hitachi Content Platform 3
Words / Review
WORDS /
REVIEW
1 SwiftStack 1,837
2 NetApp StorageGRID 677
3 Hitachi Content Platform 576
4 Huawei FusionStorage 552
5 Scality RING8 545

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Red Hat Ceph Storage See 1 review >>
Overview
Red Hat Ceph Storage is an enterprise open source platform that provides unified software-defined storage on standard,
economical servers and disks. With block, object, and file storage combined into one platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage efficiently
and automatically manages all your data.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Dell, DreamHost
TOP COMPARISONS
VMware vSAN vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage … Compared 26% of the time [See comparison]
ScaleIO vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage … Compared 13% of the time [See comparison]
LizardFS vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage … Compared 10% of the time [See comparison]
REVIEWERS * VISITORS READING REVIEWS *
TOP INDUSTRIES COMPANY SIZE

Software R&D Company … 39% 1-200 Employees … 35%
Comms Service Provider … 17% 201-1000 Employees … 18%
Manufacturing Company … 5% 1001+ Employees … 47%
Retailer … 5%
* Data is based on the aggregate profiles of IT Central Station Users reviewing and researching this solution.

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Red Hat Ceph Storage Continued from previous page
Top Reviews by Topic
IMPROVEMENTS TO MY ORGANIZATION See more Improvements To My Organization >>
It's possible that we should have used the solution a long time ago as it appears to cost the business less money to run some of our
data systems using it. We're definitely seeing cost savings since we've implemented it. [Full Review]
reviewer825
243
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>
The management features are pretty good, but they still have room for improvement. The solution needs to offer support for the
fiber channel as a protocol. [Full Review]
reviewer825
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Pure Storage FlashBlade See 14 reviews >>
Overview
FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel
architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and
insights.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL
TOP COMPARISONS
Pure Storage FlashArray vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade … Compared 33% of the time [See comparison]
Red Hat Ceph Storage vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade … Compared 15% of the time [See comparison]
Qumulo vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade … Compared 11% of the time [See comparison]
TOP INDUSTRIES TOP INDUSTRIES

Software R&D Company … 35% Financial Services Firm … 27%
Marketing Services Firm … 14% University … 18%
Manufacturing Company … 11% Software R&D Company … 9%
Government … 6% Pharma/Biotech Company … 9%
COMPANY SIZE
1-200 Employees … 12%
201-1000 Employees … 41%
1001+ Employees … 47%

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Pure Storage FlashBlade Continued from previous page
VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>
The most valuable features include the ease of implementation, ease of use and the speed that you can do backup and recovery
on. It's not complex. Everything's included in the licensing. You pay for a terabyte of storage. You don't pay for it if you want to
upgrade to a bigger driver. Your support is set constantly in the Evergreen model. You also get free refreshes, etc. All of that in
Solution3f8e combination gives everybody an easier feeling of how they're going to go forward and what their known costs are further on down
the road with Purity. [Full Review]
Primarily, most of the features that we've used work out of the box. It's fairly simple if you just roll it out. We integrated it with our
kubernetes cluster fairly painlessly but, also the flip side of that is that's where the pain point is coming from because we need a bit
more control over it. That's been the frustrating aspect of it, but for the most part, it was plug and play. [Full Review]
VpOfEngic9
de
The most valuable feature is its ease of use. We went from six different storage vendors down to one. The training for the
operations staff and others that had to deal with this on a provisioning standpoint was much easier to do. The process was
seamless and very easy to learn. It has absolutely simplified our storage because the dashboards on the consoles show a clear
Practiced5e understanding of where you are, and it is also very easy to provision. This been a big help for our teams. I am very happy with the
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latency, availability, and reduction rates. [Full Review]
The most valuable feature for us would be that it's a good cost-benefit solution for storing large amounts of data compared to other
solutions in the market. [Full Review]
Gustavo
Lima
One customer we're working with in particular is using FlashBlade along with another solution called an object engine. They're
using that to revamp how they store their backups, then store them onsite. They can push stuff up to S3 and then archive into
Glacier, so it reduces their onsite costs. [Full Review]
Solution3f8e
This solution has improved how our organization functions in the way that it has essentially made us not have to think about
storage. That's probably the biggest selling point. Storage is boring and you don't want to think about it. From that point of view, it's
provided a lot of benefits. It ticks the big boxes. It's fast, it's scalable, it's essentially zero-touch maintenance. All of those get us
VpOfEngic9 eighty, ninety percent of the way. The biggest feedback is that none of the teams have noticed. I'm not getting negative feedback
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which is a big improvem... [Full Review]
We have an improved the lifecycle of database testing and has improved QA in the space that we use it for. Storage has been
simplified for us in the way that it's easy to manage. Their automatic monitoring really helps when things break or are about to
break. They see a problem coming and alert us even before our own system does. It's good to have a good way to back up high-
National4173 performance type arrays like this, especially if we could back it up on the back end versus the front side where things are impacted.
As a Pure Storage platform, the cost-benefit... [Full Review]

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Pure Storage FlashBlade Continued from previous page
The Pure Storage Orchestrator is our biggest pain point at the moment. If we can have more say in future developments of feature
sets that we will need to support for our use case, that would be pretty beneficial to us. [Full Review]
VpOfEngic9
de
In the realm of micro-services, I think that Pure Storage can do well if they start getting in there and making their arrays more micro-
services ready. We can add a bunch of compute, we could forever compute, but the array at some point comes to a screeching halt.
I think if there's a way to make the flash array go wider that would be the better way to go in the long run. [Full Review]
National4173
On our dedupe during our initial buy, we were expecting a number a little higher like 4x. However, we are getting about 3.6. While it
is close enough, it doesn't quite hit the numbers. So, this has been a challenge. We are looking at Pure Storage's capabilities to
move off-premise into the cloud. [Full Review]
Practiced5e
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We haven't been able to use much of the cloud area of Pure Storage. We have a storage server and it would be better if it could
integrate with other cloud features of this solution. [Full Review]
Gustavo
Lima
PRICING, SETUP COST AND LICENSING See more Pricing, Setup Cost And Licensing >>
In the licensing model, everything is included. You don't buy a separate license for Active Plus. Support is a separate line item.
Support is a different cost, but whatever your support is now, that's what you're going to pay forever. If your support's $100 today,
six years from now it's $100. It doesn't fluctuate unless you upgrade it, or change it, etc. [Full Review]
Solution3f8e

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SwiftStack See 6 reviews >>
Overview
SwiftStack enables you to do more with storage. Store more data, enable more applications and serve more users. We do this by
delivering a proven object storage solution that's built on an open-source core and is fully enterprise ready. Our object storage
software is an alternative to complex, expensive, on-premises hardware-based storage solutions. SwiftStack delivers the features
and flexibility you need to easily manage and scale object storage behind your firewall. Customers are demanding storage where
they can pay as they grow, find it is easier to consume, and can infinitely scale. Today, our customers use SwiftStack for archiving
active data, serving web content, building private clouds, sharing documents and storing backups.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Pac-12 Networks, Georgia Institute of Technology, Budd Van Lines
TOP COMPARISONS
Red Hat Ceph Storage vs. SwiftStack … Compared 27% of the time [See comparison]
Scality RING8 vs. SwiftStack … Compared 23% of the time [See comparison]
IBM Cloud Object Storage vs. SwiftStack … Compared 13% of the time [See comparison]
REVIEWERS *
TOP INDUSTRIES
Software R&D Company … 58%
Manufacturing Company … 10%
Media Company … 8%
Retailer … 6%

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SwiftStack Continued from previous page
The biggest feature, the biggest reason we went with SwiftStack, rather than deploying our own model with OpenStack Swift, was
their deployment model. That was really the primary point in our purchase decision, back when we initially deployed. It took my
installation time from days to hours, for deployment in our environment, versus deploying OpenStack Swift ourselves, manually.
Jim Merritt Since then, there has been a lot of value-add that we've gotten out of it with the SwiftStack Gateway and ProxyFS, and the Metadata
Search that they've added over the years.... [Full Review]
* You can bring your own drives, which don't have to be certified. This usually means that they cost significantly more to insert a
certified drive with the manufacturer who is selling you your solution. * It is platform independent, so you bring your own hardware.
It doesn't matter if you get a Dell EMC, HPE, IBM, etc. Its hardware agnostic capabilities are great. Dell EMC, HPE, and Lenovo are
Scientif48eb obviously big players, but sometimes they don't have the best prices. You are not tied to any one particular vendor, and it gives you
great flexibility as fa... [Full Review]
The SwiftStack Controller, which is the web UI, provides out of band management. This has been one of the best features of it. It
allows us to be able to do upgrades and look at performance metrics. It is a top feature and reason to choose the product. [Full
Review]
Engineerd3f
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The most valuable feature is its versatility. We use 1space and we can use it for almost anything: for our cloud service, for backups
of VMs. You can use it for almost anything. That's something we like very much. We have a storage policy where we have three
copies of the data. We migrate that data to another storage policy and we use the 1space feature for that. I very much doubt that the
Ron developers envisioned that use case when they developed it but it does work. When working with petabytes of data, we find that
Trompert
data can be ingested and accessed a... [Full Review]
The biggest impact, which really doesn't get noticed until you need it, is in our data protection environment. Up until we utilized
SwiftStack, we were spinning physical tapes. We now have a disaster recovery facility at a co-lo, and our SwiftStack cluster extends
to that disaster recovery location. Because it's a backup target, all of our data gets replicated to our offsite facility automatically. It
Jim Merritt has enabled us to store more data with a smaller headcount. We had 50 tapes and managing tapes can be interesting at best. You
have to know where they... [Full Review]
It has helped us with the ability to distribute data to different data centers. As part of our DR strategy, we have nodes automatically
replicating data from one data center to the other. This makes it easier for us to not have to shift tapes around or do anything else
like that. We have seen a tremendous increase in the amount of data that is being produced, but at the same point in time, we
Scientif48eb haven't needed to increase our head count to manage this backup storage. We have seen eight times more data without having to
increase the head count to manage... [Full Review]
We are able to dynamically grow storage at a lower cost. We can repurpose hardware and buy commodity hardware. There is a
huge cost savings, on average $100,000 a year compared to traditional storage for what we have at our size. [Full Review]
Engineerd3f
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SwiftStack Continued from previous page
When I started, SwiftStack was just a deployment model for OpenStack Swift. It did what it needed to do. There may have been
some room for refinement procedurally in how to do certain management tasks. Over the years with ProxyFS, I don't know where
the improvement would lie - whether it lies with SwiftStack or other vendors - but, in general, we need a model where more third-
Jim Merritt party companies support REST APIs, open REST APIs into object stores such as OpenStack Swift. I really don't see any great strides
being taken to do so. There are a few, but a ... [Full Review]
On the controller features, there needs to be a bit more clean up of the user interface. There are a lot of options available on the
GUI which might be better organized or compartmentalized. There are times when you are going through the user interface and
you have to look around for where the setting may be. A little bit more attention to the organization of the user interface would be
Scientif48eb helpful. They should provide a more concise hardware calculator when you're putting your capacity together. [Full Review]
The file access needs improvement. The NFS was rolled out as a single service. It needs to be fully integrated into the proxy in a
highly available fashion, like the regular proxy access is. I know it's on the roadmap. With some of the hierarchy, old management
storage policies, I would like to be able to move data between different types of storage policies. One of the things that has come
Engineerd3f up before was being able to do distributed erasure coding. Right now, erasure coding is only supported locally redundant. Products,
d
like Scality, support the abi... [Full Review]
At the moment we are using Erasure coding in an 8+4 setting. What would be nice is if, for some standard configurations like 15+4
and 8+4, there were more versatility so we could, for example, select 8+6, or the like. [Full Review]
Ron
Trompert
All in, with hardware and everything else - and I hate to say a dollar amount because it's been awhile since I computed it - I know I'm
under the $300 to $500 per terabyte mark. I call that my "all in" price, which has replications built in and protections built in. It's not
like you're spending that dollar amount on enterprise storage, and then you have to buy some software for replication, and buy
Jim Merritt other software to do mirroring, and other software to actually back up that data in case your storage itself dies. The costs of
enterprise storage add u... [Full Review]
There is no vendor lock-in. The ongoing support and maintenance costs are not through the roof like some vendors, especially
those that specialize in backup appliances. So, they're very economical in regards to their ongoing support and maintenance. The
pricing and licensing are capacity-based, so it's hard to put my finger on them, because so many different vendors charge in
Scientif48eb different ways. We are still saving significantly over any of the other options that we evaluated because we can choose the best
hardware at the best price, then put SwiftStack... [Full Review]
The pricing model is great and makes sense. We have talked about how to get into more of a frequent billing cycle than once a
year. That would be an interesting concept to add into the product, having the ability to have monthly billing instead of having to do
a one-year licensing renewal. However, the way the license works by charging for storage consumed is definitely what makes them
Engineerd3f the most competitive. [Full Review]
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NetApp StorageGRID See 4 reviews >>
Overview
Store and manage unstructured data at scale using NetApp StorageGRID for secure, durable object storage. Place content in the
right location, at the right time, and on the right storage tier, optimizing workflows and reducing overall costs for globally
distributed rich media.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
ASE, DARZ GmbH
TOP COMPARISONS
EMC Elastic Cloud Storage vs. NetApp StorageGRID … Compared 31% of the time [See comparison]
Red Hat Ceph Storage vs. NetApp StorageGRID … Compared 25% of the time [See comparison]
Cloudian HyperStore vs. NetApp StorageGRID … Compared 13% of the time [See comparison]
TOP INDUSTRIES COMPANY SIZE

Software R&D Company … 33% 1-200 Employees … 29%
Manufacturing Company … 16% 1001+ Employees … 71%
Comms Service Provider … 12%
Financial Services Firm … 10%

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NetApp StorageGRID Continued from previous page
The S3 bucket. The ability to get to the StorageGRID from anywhere on my network. The solution is remote. You don't have to be at
a physical location. Backup and recovery as fast as you can using AltaVault. Deduplication and compression: You save up to 70 to
80 percent of your data size, if not more. This is for nonencrypted data. You can save up on your own storage using StorageGRID.
Jamil [Full Review]
Alatrash
The speed of the disks is the most valuable features. Before our storage was a bottleneck, and now, it is no longer a bottleneck. We
are able to have all of the storage that we need for our security videos. [Full Review]
Enterpriadd1
Gives us that object storage presence in the Canadian marketplace. We are the only service provider providing it today, outside of
the big players: AWS and Azure. It has excellent usability. [Full Review]
StorageA70
04
This solution helps us automate our storage infrastructure. We now have backups where everything is automated from A to Z. All
we have to do is monitor it and make sure the jobs do not fail. If the jobs are failing, we resolve the issue. StorageGRID is our
backup data store. [Full Review]
Jamil
Alatrash
Well, we are not going to go to jail now because we are actually in compliance with the law. So, that's good. With the speed of it, we
experience no bottlenecks and the performance is there, so we no longer have to worry about keeping up with jittery videos. It has
improved our operational efficiency because we do not having to keep track of 20 servers. Instead, we have to keep track of two
Enterpriadd1 arrays. [Full Review]
We can provide something that customers can consume. Also, the licensing that the S3 service provides them from a FabricPool
standpoint is more attractive than the licensing from AWS or Azure. It helps us automate our storage infrastructure by allowing us to
consume storage appliances as we need them. [Full Review]
StorageA70
04

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NetApp StorageGRID Continued from previous page
The GUI should work a bit better. ONTAP is great. They should take the lead of ONTAP and apply that to StorageGRID. There was a
small amount of confusion when working with StorageGRID and Active Directory for access. We had to do things three to four times
resulting in our engineer troubleshooting a couple of things. The location of the menu, along with what is inside the menu:
Jamil configurations, settings, etc., is not straightforward to users. Most users are Windows-based. So, when make logical changes to the
Alatrash
menu which are not similar to Windows, use... [Full Review]
The only real issue that we have run into is, when we are cloning, we cannot do a thin provision clone, it has to be a full clone. If we
could have this added in the future, it would save us a little bit of space. Other than that, everything has been as advertised. [Full
Review]
Enterpriadd1
I would like to see them integrate more with the monitoring platforms. It is a bit difficult to get automated monitoring of the system.
The processes around installation and upgrade need improvement. [Full Review]
StorageA70
04
We are planning to go to the cloud. Due to the expenses of the cloud, especially when you are downloading your data off the cloud
from AWS or Microsoft Azure, that is where they get you. Creating your own data stores, backups, or storage grids, helps eliminate
all these costs of downloading all the data back after you upload to the cloud. Buying the solution is expensive, but it saves you
Jamil money down the line when you factor in the logistics of not having to buy tapes. [Full Review]
Alatrash

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EMC Elastic Cloud Storage See 2 reviews >>
Overview
Dell EMC Elactic Cloud Storage (ECS) provides a complete software-defined object storage platform designed for today's cloud-
scale storage requirements. ECS provides the simplicity and low cost benefits of the public cloud without the risk, compliance, and
data sovereignty concerns. ECS benefits include:
Cloud-scale Economics: 60% TCO savings versus public cloud services.Simplicity & Scale: Single global namespace, unlimited
apps, users and files.Universal Accessibility: Support for object, file, and HDFS all on a single platform.Faster App Development:
API accessible storage and strong consistency accelerates cloud apps & analytics.Turnkey Cloud: Multi-tenancy, self-service
access and metering capabilities.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Atos
TOP COMPARISONS
Amazon AWS vs. EMC Elastic Cloud Storage … Compared 32% of the time [See comparison]
NetApp StorageGRID vs. EMC Elastic Cloud Storage … Compared 12% of the time [See comparison]
Microsoft Azure vs. EMC Elastic Cloud Storage … Compared 9% of the time [See comparison]
REVIEWERS *
TOP INDUSTRIES
Financial Services Firm … 10%
Government … 7%

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EMC Elastic Cloud Storage Continued from previous page
What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor. There are
many object storage systems that are sold as a software solution, only. At the same time, some vendors only sell the hardware. With
this product, they are combined to make a complete solution. [Full Review]
reviewer959
067
I have no problems with our application, but 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. [Full
Review]
Mac Wang

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Hitachi Content Platform See 3 reviews >>
Overview
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
Rabobank, Xinhua News Agency, Kremsm'ller Industrieanlagenbau KG, KSC Commercial Internet, AIS Group, Shanghai Interactive
Television Co. Ltd (SiTV), China Telecom, Spin Master
TOP COMPARISONS
EMC Elastic Cloud Storage vs. Hitachi Content Platform … Compared 46% of the time [See comparison]
Red Hat Ceph Storage vs. Hitachi Content Platform … Compared 19% of the time [See comparison]
Scality RING8 vs. Hitachi Content Platform … Compared 15% of the time [See comparison]

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Hitachi Content Platform Continued from previous page
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. I think that some of the verticals
are things that come with the total package for the BHEA, multi-side BHEA, and everything. That's what I think is unique. [Full
Mahesh Review]
Wijenayaka
The most valuable feature is the retention log. The way that they handle the DR is very good because when there is a failover, it is
seamless to the users. DR and multisite replication come together as a package. [Full Review]
Mahesh
Wijenayaka
Feature-wise, it has a lot of features. The most valuable features include: * Deduplication * Encryption * Version controlling * Support
* Tamper-proof data. [Full Review]
Udara
Weerapperu
ma
In terms of what can be improved, normally they provide it as object storage, but they see that as a vendor they don't have the
components to glue it. So they allow all the partners to come up with all the ideas. But when positioning, if Hitachi could also come
up with their own sort of software to provide solutions, by OEM like Microsoft and all those, they would allow partners to promote
Mahesh their solutions to a partner store. Something like that. That's the way they should take this. Let's say from a partner point of view, we
Wijenayaka
don't see what Hitachi d... [Full Review]
The vendor needs to come up with their own integration solutions. As it is now, they provide object storage that is used by a
number of other vendors. They allow the partners to come up with the ideas. For example, Microsoft, Cisco, and others can promote
their own solutions, but there is nothing directly from Hitachi. Hitachi needs to start working with all of its partners, globally. What is
Mahesh lacking in this solution is a simple process to migrate from existing systems. [Full Review]
Wijenayaka
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. [Full Review]
Udara
Weerapperu
ma

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Scality RING8 See 1 review >>
Overview
Scality RING object storage enables enterprises and cloud service providers to run petabyte-scale, data-rich services like web
applications, VOD, active archives, compliance archives, and private storage clouds. The RING is software, so you can deploy it on
standard x86 servers of your choice, taking advantage of server and media innovation over time. Acting as a single, distributed
system, the RING can scale linearly across thousands of servers, multiple sites, and an unlimited number of objects. Data is
protected with policy-based replication, erasure coding, and geo-distribution, achieving up to 14 9s of durability and 100%
availability.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Comcast, TimeWarner Cable, EuroSport, Orange, Deluxe, DailtMotion, SFR, RTL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Telstra
TOP COMPARISONS
Red Hat Ceph Storage vs. Scality RING8 … Compared 29% of the time [See comparison]
Cloudian HyperStore vs. Scality RING8 … Compared 14% of the time [See comparison]
IBM Cloud Object Storage vs. Scality RING8 … Compared 9% of the time [See comparison]
REVIEWERS *
TOP INDUSTRIES
Insurance Company … 8%
Government … 6%

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If I had to choose a new aspect for the system, it would be the rebalancing. The ease of use during capacity upgrades would be the
most important improvement. I don't know if they manage it better right now or not, but it was really horrible to extend capacity on
Scality at the time that I used it. When you add new servers in the node or ring, Scality does rebalancing to split the workload across
reviewer124 all the nodes and servers. It moves the data from one server to another. [Full Review]
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Cloudian HyperStore See 1 review >>
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.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
NTT Communications, Casale, Kumo
TOP COMPARISONS
Scality RING8 vs. Cloudian HyperStore … Compared 26% of the time [See comparison]
Red Hat Ceph Storage vs. Cloudian HyperStore … Compared 14% of the time [See comparison]
IBM Cloud Object Storage vs. Cloudian HyperStore … Compared 10% of the time [See comparison]
REVIEWERS *
TOP INDUSTRIES
Media Company … 8%
Retailer … 7%

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Huawei FusionStorage See 1 review >>
Overview
Huawei FusionStorage fully distributed cloud storage features massive scale-out capability designed for cloud-based
architectures. The on-board storage system software combines the local storage resources of standard x86 servers into fully
distributed storage pools, providing block, object, or file storage resources to the upper layer. An enterprise can easily obtain the
required flexibility and efficiency in data storage to keep up with the ever-changing dynamics of business.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
TOP COMPARISONS
Red Hat Ceph Storage vs. Huawei FusionStorage … Compared 52% of the time [See comparison]
EMC Elastic Cloud Storage vs. Huawei FusionStorage … Compared 8% of the time [See comparison]
Vblock vs. Huawei FusionStorage … Compared 5% of the time [See comparison]

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Huawei FusionStorage Continued from previous page
The features I know about that are the most valuable are the block, file and object storage features. It has a very simple GUI-based
management platform and it is very simple to use. There is a very easy step-by-step configuration procedure that guides you
through, and you can configure it very easily. [Full Review]
MuneebMali
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One place where this product should be improved is in the deployment. It should be made easier and the time should be reduced.
The number of software packages could be minimized and with a little effort, the deployment time can be streamlined and the time
reduced. [Full Review]
MuneebMali
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Qumulo
Overview
Real-time analytics are built directly into the Qumulo Scalable File System (QSFS) enabling instant answers about your data
footprint, and how it’s being used, at scale.
Built on Linux, Qumulo Core runs on commodity hardware, on dedicated appliances, or in virtual machines providing the ultimate
flexibility and cost advantages.
Qumulo Core is optimized for the widest range of workloads and file sizes including transactional and sequential access patterns
and small and large files.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
University of Washington, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, Zoic Studios, Sinclair Oil, Blind Visual Propaganda, Sportvision,
Telus Studios, Ant Farm, Densho, MSG Netowrks, Eight Solutions
TOP COMPARISONS
EMC Isilon vs. Qumulo … Compared 61% of the time [See comparison]
NetApp FAS Series vs. Qumulo … Compared 8% of the time [See comparison]
SoftNAS vs. Qumulo … Compared 5% of the time [See comparison]
REVIEWERS *
TOP INDUSTRIES
Retailer … 8%
Manufacturing Company … 6%

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Top Solutions by Ranking Factor 7

Red Hat Ceph Storage 8-9

Pure Storage FlashBlade 10 - 12

EMC Elastic Cloud Storage 19 - 20

Hitachi Content Platform 21 - 22

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Cloudian Cloudian HyperStore NetApp NetApp StorageGRID

DataDirect Networks DDN WOS Nutanix Nutanix Files

HGST HGST ActiveScale Qumulo Qumulo

Huawei Huawei FusionStorage Scality Scality RING8

IBM IBM Cloud Object Storage StackPath StackPath Object Storage

Intel Intel DAOS StorageCraft StorageCraft OneBlox

Linode Linode Object Storage SwiftStack SwiftStack

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Top File and Object Storage Solutions

Views Comparisons Reviews Words/Review Average Rating

1 Red Hat Ceph Storage

2 Pure Storage FlashBlade

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5 EMC Elastic Cloud Storage

6 Hitachi Content Platform

5,575 views 4,710 comparisons 0 reviews 0 words/review

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Top Solutions by Ranking Factor

1 Red Hat Ceph Storage 26,976

2 EMC Elastic Cloud Storage 5,796

4 Scality RING8 4,311

5 NetApp StorageGRID 3,489

1 Pure Storage FlashBlade 13

2 Red Hat Ceph Storage 6

5 Hitachi Content Platform 3

2 NetApp StorageGRID 677

3 Hitachi Content Platform 576

4 Huawei FusionStorage 552

5 Scality RING8 545

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REVIEWERS * VISITORS READING REVIEWS *

TOP INDUSTRIES COMPANY SIZE

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Top Reviews by Topic

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Pure Storage FlashBlade See 14 reviews >>

REVIEWERS * VISITORS READING REVIEWS *

TOP INDUSTRIES TOP INDUSTRIES

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Top Reviews by Topic

VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>

IMPROVEMENTS TO MY ORGANIZATION See more Improvements To My Organization >>

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ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

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