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Hitachi ShadowImage Reviews

Vendor: Hitachi Vantara
4.0 out of 5
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What is Hitachi ShadowImage?

Nondisruptive, high-speed data replication within any Hitachi storage system or virtualized storage pool is a reality with Hitachi ShadowImage replication software. Use data immediately in modern data protection and copy data management operations.

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Hitachi ShadowImage is the #8 ranked solution in top Data Replication solutions. PeerSpot users give Hitachi ShadowImage an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Hitachi ShadowImage is most commonly compared to Hitachi TrueCopy: Hitachi ShadowImage vs Hitachi TrueCopy.
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Data Replication
August 2025
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Hitachi ShadowImage mindshare

As of August 2025, the mindshare of Hitachi ShadowImage in the Data Replication category stands at 6.0%, up from 5.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Replication Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Hitachi ShadowImage6.0%
NetApp Snapshot17.9%
NetApp SnapMirror15.0%
Other61.1%
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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

  • "The most valuable features are its ability to handle large databases efficiently and the asynchronous replication capability."
  • "The most valuable feature of Hitachi ShadowImage is high-speed data transfer from one server to another. Other solutions would have problems with transferring 50 TB of data.I also like that Hitachi ShadowImage is easy to use."

Room for Improvement

  • "We have experienced problems with it, even though Hitachi provides good hardware."
  • "API and script configuration in Hitachi ShadowImage is sometimes complicated, so this is an area for improvement.Another area for improvement is that the Hitachi ShadowImage interface isn't as user-friendly."

Pricing

  • "I don't have pricing information for Hitachi ShadowImage because my manager handled it."
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Hitachi ShadowImage Reviews Summary
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Team Lead for Core Infrastructure at Raiffeisen bank Serbia4.0I use Hitachi ShadowImage for data replication in our bank, particularly for managing large Oracle databases. It efficiently handles large data sets, though the technology is dated. Improvements could be made in technical support.
Team Lead for Core Infrastructure at Raiffeisen bank Serbia4.0No summary available