Dell ObjectScale vs Hitachi Content Platform comparison

Dell Technologies and Hitachi Vantara are both solutions in the File and Object Storage category. Dell Technologies is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.3, while Hitachi Vantara is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.0. Dell Technologies holds a 7.7% mindshare in FaOS, compared to Hitachi Vantara’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Dell Technologies 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 Aug 26, 2025

Dell ObjectScale and Hitachi Content Platform are competitive storage solutions within the enterprise data management sector. Dell ObjectScale appears to have the upper hand due to its robust integration with Dell EMC products and enterprise features, although Hitachi Content Platform offers excellent encryption and compliance capabilities.

Features: Dell ObjectScale offers valuable features like S3 protocol implementation, power efficiency, and geo-replication support. It excels in integration with other Dell EMC products and provides strong enterprise features like immutability and multi-tenancy support. Hitachi Content Platform focuses on encryption, bit rot prevention, and data deduplication. It provides comprehensive archiving and compliance, integrating well with existing systems and offering versioning and ransomware protection.

Room for Improvement: Dell ObjectScale could improve third-party integration, scaling, and cost-effectiveness. Enhancing disaster recovery and streamlining technical support would also be beneficial. Hitachi Content Platform needs to improve partner integration and user interface. Easier software upgrades and better cloud integration are suggested for enhanced customer experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell ObjectScale is primarily deployed on-premises, offering consistent technical support, although cross-functional knowledge gaps may cause delays. Hitachi Content Platform supports multiple environments, including on-premises and hybrid clouds, with generally effective customer service despite some regional and pricing issues.

Pricing and ROI: Dell ObjectScale has mixed reviews regarding pricing, seen as expensive mainly due to hardware bundling, yet offers long-term scalability and data compression benefits. Hitachi Content Platform is perceived as costly but competitive in certain regions, providing strong ROI through its stability and reliability.

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Pure Storage FlashBlade

Mindshare comparison

As of August 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 Dell ObjectScale is 7.7%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hitachi Content Platform is 1.7%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

File and Object Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Dell ECS	7.7%
Pure Storage FlashBlade	5.8%
Hitachi Content Platform	1.7%
Other	84.8%

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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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SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

Managing efficiently with user-friendly interfaces for monitoring and managing resources

We normally recommend Dell ECS to enterprise customers and government customers Dell ECS is very easy to handle, primarily because the web UI dashboard and everything is very easy to manage for every customer. They can monitor the DPS, access failures, bandwidth, failed requests, and latency.…

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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

"We can capacity plan at a greater level than we used to."

"It uses the same platform for connectivity so integration is seamless."

"The initial setup is pretty quick."

"Approximately 40% to 50% of my time is saved using Pure Storage FlashBlade compared to different products."

"We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."

"The solution is able to handle workloads and is easy to use. It allows us to actually manage the boxes in less time."

"The most valuable features of FlashBlade include its replication capabilities, reports, and easy allocation. Everything is user-friendly."

"What I like best about Pure Storage FlashBlade is its object storage functionality, plus it has fast underlying hardware. Pure Storage FlashBlade is also very stable. I find its stability one of its valuable features."

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"This product is very competitive."

"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor."

"Dell ECS provides compatibility between on-premises and cloud-based storage, supporting protocols such as S3, which is commonly used in cloud storage, enabling integration between on-premises storage and cloud storage."

"It is 100% stable. It is also scalable."

"What I like best about Dell ECS is its stability. I also like that you can use it for large-scale data purposes. The solution works fine for me, and I haven't encountered any issues with it."

"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."

"It is a stable solution."

"The technology is very good, it performs well."

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"One of the most hidden valuable features is ensuring that you don't have bit rot, so it will go and check every single object that's stored on the system, then ensure that if there's a problem, it'll be repaired from either a local copy or remote copy, depending upon your configuration."

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

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

"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."

"Hitachi is a big company, so it's a very strong product."

"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."

"The platform helps in efficient data management with the ease of server provisioning."

Cons

"Recently, while upgrading the version code, one of the controllers failed. Replacing the controller took between 14 to 20 days."

"They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution."

"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."

"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."

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

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

"I would like to see more deduplication."

"The documentational aspect of FlashBlade needs improvement."

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"We have had issues when the ECS is expiring or the NetBackup is expiring images."

"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."

"The deployment is not easy, and some expertise is required to configure the virtual data center and replication groups."

"If Dell ECS would be available as standalone software, so you can use any hardware with it, would make the solution better. It would also be good if Dell ECS had more integrations with other products."

"While there can be occasional issues with routing to the wrong region that lead to slight delays, it's typically business as usual."

"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."

"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."

"We have had issues when the ECS is expiring or the NetBackup is expiring images."

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"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."

"The solution could use more integration with clouds."

"They could improve compatibility and offer a more user-friendly GUI."

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

"In terms of the customer support, I can say it's a mixed reaction depending on the country."

"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."

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"The product is very expensive."

"It is within reason for what you get. From what we have found comparing it to other vendors, it is in the same range as others. Given the choice, we would definitely redeploy it based on the cost."

"Our licensing is renewed annually."

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

"We used a reseller for the purchase."

"I rate the tool's pricing a seven to eight out of ten."

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"We initially purchased all of the licenses at the same time."

"It is an inexpensive product."

"Dell EMC ECS is too expensive."

"The price of Dell ECS should be reduced."

"The charges for this solution are made in blocks of models, which are purchased depending on what features an organization requires."

"It's a lease-based model, so it's capacity-based. We already negotiated the price a lot, but we're still doing that with Dell because somehow the product was not installed successfully, so there was a lot of struggle in the distributor territory between Dell and the environment itself. I would give the solution a 6 out of 10 for the pricing. There's a little room for improvement."

"We are not paying for the license at this stage."

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"The product’s cost is average."

"Hitachi is more expensive than StorageGRID."

"The pricing could be better."

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

"Overall, it's costly."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Computer Software Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

21%

Government

13%

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	20

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	4

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 of Pure Storage FlashBlade is expensive compared to other products I used from other companies in the pas...

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?

I believe there is not much improvement needed because they have everything we need, but the interface is a little bi...

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What do you like most about Dell EMC ECS?

The tool is easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC ECS?

The pricing is moderate and at par with the market. As a service provider, we receive good margins, indicating a favo...

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What needs improvement with Dell EMC ECS?

It's difficult for me to comment on improvements for Dell ECS because we typically do not engage in those areas. We h...

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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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Compared 25% of the time

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Also Known As

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EMC ECS, Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)

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

Dell ObjectScale is a next-generation S3 object storage platform known for scalability, performance, and efficiency. It integrates with Dell EMC products, combining hardware and software for seamless user experience in the AI era.

Dell ObjectScale implements the S3 protocol, integrating smoothly with Dell EMC solutions like ISILON. Its architecture supports data compression and interoperates with multiple protocols for enhanced performance. Enterprise features include immutability, geo-replication, and user-friendly management. However, it needs better integration with other systems, enhanced security, and disaster recovery. Write performance and scalability improvements, competitive pricing, and documentation enhancements are key areas for progress. The interface could be more straightforward, with more remote management features and native analytics.

What features does Dell ObjectScale offer?

S3 Protocol Implementation: Brings industry-standard access with wide application compatibility
Seamless Dell EMC Integration: Ensures stability and ease of use with existing systems
Data Compression and Protocol Interoperability: Enhances performance and storage efficiency
Immutability and Geo-Replication: Provides enterprise-level data protection
Optimized Pricing: Balances cost with comprehensive support

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Scalability: Supports expanding data requirements effectively
Integration Flexibility: Works with many existing systems for better interoperability
Ease of Management: Streamlines hardware and software operations
Enterprise-Level Features: Delivers advanced protection and efficiency

Industries leverage Dell ObjectScale for cloud-based object storage, archiving, and backups. It's favored for unstructured data management, CCTV integration, and document archiving. Strong in data analytics, it integrates well with high-capacity applications, enhancing data retention strategies across fields.

Dell Technologies

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

Atos

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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