Cloudian HyperStore vs Hitachi Content Platform comparison

Cloudian and Hitachi Vantara are both solutions in the File and Object Storage category. Cloudian is ranked #12 with an average rating of 9.0, while Hitachi Vantara is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.0. Cloudian holds a 3.0% mindshare in FaOS, compared to Hitachi Vantara’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Cloudian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Hitachi Vantara users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Cloudian HyperStore and Hitachi Content Platform are competing cloud storage solutions. Cloudian HyperStore often has an advantage due to its lower pricing, making it appealing for budget-conscious organizations, while Hitachi Content Platform stands out for its extensive feature set, justifying its higher cost.

Features: Cloudian HyperStore is known for scalability, native S3 protocol compatibility, and seamless integration into ecosystems. Hitachi Content Platform focuses on data management, compliance features, and comprehensive data protection and governance.

Room for Improvement: Cloudian HyperStore could benefit from enhanced data management features, more comprehensive compliance tools, and better governance capabilities. Hitachi Content Platform may improve with simpler deployment processes, increased user-friendliness, and more flexible pricing models.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cloudian HyperStore is praised for straightforward deployment and reliable support, offering uncomplicated setup and comprehensive assistance. Hitachi Content Platform's complex deployment reflects its broader feature set but may challenge setup, catering to advanced configurations.

Pricing and ROI: Cloudian HyperStore provides a cost-effective solution with quick ROI benefits due to lower initial investments. Hitachi Content Platform requires higher initial setup costs but offers substantial long-term ROI through its features and efficiencies, appealing to organizations seeking depth over time.

To learn more, read our detailed Cloudian HyperStore vs. Hitachi Content Platform Report (Updated: March 2025).

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Cloudian HyperStore vs. Hitachi Content Platform

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Pure Storage FlashBlade

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 5.8%, down from 6.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudian HyperStore is 3.0%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hitachi Content Platform is 1.6%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Eric Black

Solutions Architect at Recovery Point Systems

The ability to leverage multi-tenancy along with immutability is a huge benefit for us

The only thing I feel FlashBlade is missing is the SOS API. If it had SOS API, that would put it well over the top. Veeam Backup specifically has started to streamline their API, and they are doing that with SOS API. They have optimized it. Any of the S3 devices out there that support this SOS API can have far more API calls at once. On our side, that translates to better restoration. With SOS API, it can leverage far more restorations at a single given time or read from the device in simple terms. That results in maximizing the output and throughput from the device itself.

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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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Mir Gulzar Ahmed

IT Manager at Synergy Computers

Integrates well with existing systems but technical support for the platform needs improvement

While deployment is simple, it's not as simple as StorageGRID. The architecture is entirely different, even though the end product uses the same protocols. The user interface isn't as user-friendly, and the management platform UI isn't as intuitive as others. Deployment isn't as centralized either. Although I've deployed Hitachi Content myself in our production head office for the VM team, even though it's simple, it wasn't completely straightforward. They still required my help with the initial configuration environment setup. So, it's not just simple; there are some tricky aspects. The environment is tricky, but if you understand it, configuration can be done quickly.

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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

"Among its most appealing features are its ease of handling and minimal maintenance requirements."

"I like its size. It is smaller than the other competitors. We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte."

"FlashBlade offers low latency, high throughput, and seamless scalability."

"The solution provides many controllers."

"The most valuable features include the ease of implementation, ease of use and the speed that you can do backup and recovery on."

"The ease of deployment and management has helped us simplify our storage. We also do not have to worry about capacity management as much. A lot of these things are native to Pure Storage."

"Speed and ease of use are the two most valuable features."

"The snapshots, replication, and the ability to have immutable blades are the most valuable features. You're putting data snapshots out in those blades, and they cannot be touched. Its performance is great."

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"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."

"Considering a customer's need for a cost-effective solution, Cloudian HyperStore fits well for data protection scenarios."

"Cloudian HyperStore is one hundred percent stable."

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

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

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

"The most valuable features of the solution are the versioning and the ransomware protection."

"Companies can scale the solution."

"Feature-wise, it has a lot of features. The most valuable features include de-duplication, encryption, version controlling, support, and tamper-proof data."

"The way that they handle the DR is very good because when there is a failover, it is seamless to the users."

"The Hitachi Content Platform is a stable and reliable solution."

"The product provides the fastest technology."

"As an architect, I like the management features that come with Hitachi Content Platform because it makes things easy."

"Integrating Hitachi Content Platform with existing systems is not challenging."

Cons

"Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration."

"In terms of scalability, it doesn't expand out quite as robustly as some of the others, but it covers 90% of the market in what it does."

"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."

"The solution is expensive."

"I would like to see better integration."

"File storage needs a lot of improvement. Mainframe connectivity also needs improvement because it requires additional components to be integrated with Pure Storage FlashBlade. If you want to keep your backup data, then this becomes an even more expensive solution because Pure Storage FlashBlade will not be able to meet your backup needs."

"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."

"I would like to see more VM-Aware features in the next release of this solution."

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"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."

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

"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."

"At present, it is complicated to use the CLI command."

"The only thing is that it should be more cost effective."

"What is lacking in this solution is a simple process to migrate from existing systems."

"Although they claim to provide NFS, the actual implementation requires an additional gateway, which makes it a costly solution."

"There is room for improvement in the capacity for integration with other platforms."

"The user interface isn't as user-friendly, and the management platform UI isn't as intuitive as others. So it can be more user-friendly."

"Two things that can be improved are pricing and configuration. Mostly the pricing is an issue. And if I were to add anything, I would say more integration with backup solutions such as Veeam Backup."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of this solution could be made more affordable."

"I have seen ROI. It has allowed me to increase the density of my VMs without having to purchase anything additional."

"The price is a little high."

"The product is very expensive."

"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."

"Licensing fees are paid yearly."

"We used a reseller for the purchase."

"In my opinion, we have paid the right price for the product. I don't think that it is too much or too little."

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

"The solution is cheap."

"I think the ROI for this solution is very good because the pricing for it is in between other solutions."

"The price of the Hitachi Content Platform is very high."

"The pricing could be better."

"Hitachi is more expensive than StorageGRID."

"Pricing is comparable to other solutions in the market."

"The product’s cost is average."

"Overall, it's costly."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

37%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

29%

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

22%

Government

11%

Educational Organization

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashBlade?

The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power out...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashBlade?

The pricing for FlashBlade is between cheap and moderate. FlashBlade is worth the money due to the experience and per...

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Its configuration should be easier. There should be easier language for the configuration.

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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 su...

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What needs improvement with Cloudian HyperStore?

I consider Cloudian HyperStore a complete solution. However, it is important to thoroughly understand customer use ca...

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What is your primary use case for Cloudian HyperStore?

I used Cloudian HyperStore for data protection, functioning as a data repository and data protection software. I impl...

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What do you like most about Hitachi Content Platform?

Integrating Hitachi Content Platform with existing systems is not challenging.

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What needs improvement with Hitachi Content Platform?

In comparison to competitors like Huawei, which can use all storage protocols in the same platform, Hitachi Content P...

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What is your primary use case for Hitachi Content Platform?

Mainly, from my project, Hitachi Content Platform is used for archiving. The customer is in banking, so they need to ...

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HyperStore, Cloudian HyperStore Object Storage, HyperStore Object Storage

HCP, Hitachi Vantara Content Platform, Hitachi Vantara HCP

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.

Pure Storage

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.

Cloudian

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.

Hitachi Vantara

Sample Customers

ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL

NTT Communications, Casale, Kumo

Rabobank, Xinhua News Agency, Kremsm'ller Industrieanlagenbau KG, KSC Commercial Internet, AIS Group, Shanghai Interactive Television Co. Ltd (SiTV), China Telecom, Spin Master

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