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Amazon FSx vs. Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

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    Overview
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    Amazon FSx

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAmazon FSx is a cloud storage service designed to make it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a range of workloads boasting reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. As a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups, and supports four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre.N/A

    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AHitachi Vantara offers the Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) as a virtualization management solution.N/A
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    Amazon FSxHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
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    Amazon FSxHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Amazon FSxHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Amazon FSx and Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    Feature
    Amazon FSx
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
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    Ratings
    Versioning8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    File search8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Security & Administration
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Amazon FSx and Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    Feature
    Amazon FSx
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
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    Ratings
    User and role management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    File organization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Platform
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Amazon FSx and Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    Feature
    Amazon FSx
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    -
    Ratings
    Performance10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reliability10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Storage Reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Amazon FSxHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon FSxHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    - For any enterprise-grade storage, this is the best option. - EDA workloads are very strong with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp's FlexCache technologies. - Random read workloads such as OLTP are awesome on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. - File Services are the best in class on FSxN. - DR sites from ONTAP on-premises are amazing.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    Hitachi SVOS is well suited for all environment in todays world. Storage plays a pivot role in all services provided in the current digital age. The Hitachi SVOS along with their blade proides magnificient perfromance boost which is not comparable to any vendors. Companies which has a huge database should consider this an option to evaluate. In addition orgnization who has a highly virtualized enviroment could also look at this product during their evaluation stage. This product is less benfit due to its cost in an environment where they have more number of physical servers as there are other solution which can be leveraged at a lower costs as they would not be utilizing the full feature set provided by the appliance
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Enterprise grade unified storage in the cloud
    • Multiprotocol access
    • PV for EKS
    • Data mobility
    • Data security
    • Integration with NetApp Cloud Manager
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • Scaling Flexibility
    • Supporting Hybrid/Cloud environments
    • Improving cost efficiency
    • Simplifying storage management
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Data Protection from AWS console
    • Advance Matrix
    • FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • Cost is too high
    • Documentation quality needs to be improved a lot. It is missing details currenty
    • Organize all the documents and tools related info in easy to read and understand manner
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
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    Hitachi Vantara
    It combines with enterprise level storages very well. Due to its high reliability & uptime, it is valued greatly by such institutes. Secondly, it's advanced virtualization reduces the complexity & cost, which in turn results in maximizing hardware utilization. Performance efficiency is amazing even under heavy workloads. Built-in cache optimization and automated tiering help ensure efficient data placement.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    I have not worked with other reliable and powerful platform that is as reliable as this product. This platform has given us room to concentrate on more productive activities leaving our data under a safe system. It automates file transfer and saves time in uploading documents across all team members. It interlinks all our applications systems to enhance teamwork and increase production.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    There is definitely no comparison to any of the products when comparing to Hitachi SVOS. I beleieve this is the only unique product which can leverage older storage systems. Dell Avamar can be a great product if you are considering DR replication alone. The DR replication ratio is quite high in Dell avamar. However given that the current bandwidth available outweights this benefit
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • It improved our TCO by optimizing storage costs between SSDs and S3
    • It speeded our TTM with speedy deployment and orchestration
    • It removed needed expertise from our engineers
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • Cost had bit of negative impact
    • Due to stable OS and live migrations support it has allowed us to dynamically tune the capacity of our test clusters leading to better COGS for our business
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