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Hitachi Content Platform vs Pure Storage FlashBlade comparison

Hitachi Vantara and Pure Storage are both solutions in the File and Object Storage category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.0, while Pure Storage is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.8. Hitachi Vantara holds a 1.7% mindshare in FaOS, compared to Pure Storage’s 5.8% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Hitachi Vantara users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Pure Storage users who would recommend it.
Hitachi Content Platform
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88% willing to recommend
Pure Storage FlashBlade
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94% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Pure Storage FlashBlade and Hitachi Content Platform compete in the storage solutions category. FlashBlade appears to have the upper hand due to its high performance and simplicity, while Hitachi offers extensive integration and archiving capabilities.

Features: Pure Storage FlashBlade is recognized for its exceptional throughput, speed, and seamless integration. It offers fast data replication and is noted for its user-friendly simplicity. Hitachi Content Platform excels in data archiving, management, and robust integration with existing systems. It provides strong stability and compliance features suitable for diverse environments.

Room for Improvement: Pure Storage FlashBlade requires improvements in public cloud integration, deduplication, and pricing, with users desiring enhanced enterprise-feature sets. Hitachi Content Platform needs simpler migration processes, better user interfaces, and stronger cloud integration. Users have also highlighted issues with pricing and the efficiency of technical support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Pure Storage FlashBlade is primarily deployed on-premises and is praised for its easy deployment process. However, some users noted a decline in support quality as the company grows. Hitachi Content Platform offers on-premises, public, and hybrid cloud deployments with generally high-rated technical support, despite occasional delays. FlashBlade's deployment is considered simpler, while Hitachi provides broader deployment options.

Pricing and ROI: Pure Storage FlashBlade is viewed as expensive but is justified by its high performance and significant ROI through time savings. Hitachi Content Platform offers competitive pricing among Western vendors with varied ROI, acknowledged for reducing total cost of ownership. FlashBlade is noted for streamlined management, whereas Hitachi provides cost-effective solutions with strong capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Hitachi Content Platform
Ranking in File and Object Storage
16th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Pure Storage FlashBlade
Ranking in File and Object Storage
8th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
All-Flash Storage (15th), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of Hitachi Content Platform is 1.7%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 5.8%, down from 6.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Mir Gulzar Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Eric Black - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The main selling point is its compatibility with different environments. It functions like an on-prem Google Drive or Dropbox built on top of the object storage."
"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."
"Feature-wise, it has a lot of features. The most valuable features include de-duplication, encryption, version controlling, support, and tamper-proof data."
"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."
"As an architect, I like the management features that come with Hitachi Content Platform because it makes things easy."
"Companies can scale the solution."
"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 platform helps in efficient data management with the ease of server provisioning."
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"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there."
"The product is scalable and easy to expand."
"It's very easy-to-use."
"I would rate Pure Storage FlashBlade a ten out of ten."
"The initial setup is pretty easy and simple."
"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."
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Cons

"The only thing is that it should be more cost effective."
"Although they claim to provide NFS, the actual implementation requires an additional gateway, which makes it a costly solution."
"What is lacking in this solution is a simple process to migrate from existing systems."
"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."
"The solution could use more integration with clouds."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the capacity for integration with other platforms."
"At present, it is complicated to use the CLI command."
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"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."
"I would like to see more VM-Aware features in the next release of this solution."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
"It usually comes down to just what you hit and the value you're getting when you spend the money and license the products. I would always go, "If you want to make things better, lower your price and make your licensing simpler." There's always an opportunity around that."
"I would also like to see better support for CIFS workloads."
"It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology."
"In terms of technical support, the experience has been mixed. The support is done through email and is not that great, making it a very problematic area I've been dealing with for over four years."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product’s cost is average."
"Pricing is comparable to other solutions in the market."
"Hitachi is more expensive than StorageGRID."
"I think the ROI for this solution is very good because the pricing for it is in between other solutions."
"Overall, it's costly."
"The pricing could be better."
"The price of the Hitachi Content Platform is very high."
"The pricing is relatively expensive due to the FlashBlade technology. However, for companies needing quick and reliable data access, the cost is justified."
"I understand that it is competitively priced compared to other brands."
"Our licensing is renewed annually."
"The price could be cheaper."
"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."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade is a hardware appliance, and it's very expensive if you compare its price with other solutions. You can get the same features and benefits from its competitor, VAST Data, but for half the price of Pure Storage FlashBlade."
"I have seen ROI. It has allowed me to increase the density of my VMs without having to purchase anything additional."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Government
13%
Educational Organization
6%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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 Platform lacks the integration of block, file, and object on a single system. Alt...
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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 keep their long-term data on the platform. The platform is replacing their exist...
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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 outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensure...
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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 past, but one benefit is that they have built-in ransomware protection. Approximate...
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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 bit complex to understand. You have to understand it more deeply because it's hard...
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Also Known As

HCP, Hitachi Vantara Content Platform, Hitachi Vantara HCP
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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.

Hitachi Vantara

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
 

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
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