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Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)

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    Amazon S3 Glacier

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes are purpose-built for data archiving, providing a low cost archive storage in the cloud. According to AWS, S3 Glacier storage classes provide virtually unlimited scalability and are designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) of data durability, and they provide fast access to archive data and low cost.

    $0

    Per GB Per Month

    Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AHitachi Content Platform (HCP) is a scalable object storage platform with enterprise-level security, for archiving, backup, and content/data sharing.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon S3 GlacierHitachi Content Platform (HCP)
    Editions & Modules
    Bulk Retrieval Pricing
    $0.0025
    Per GB Per Month
    Storage Pricing
    $0.004
    Per GB Per Month
    Retrieval Pricing
    $0.01
    Per GB Per Month
    Expedited Retrieval Pricing
    $0.03
    Per GB Per Month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3 GlacierHitachi Content Platform (HCP)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Amazon S3 GlacierHitachi Content Platform (HCP)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon S3 GlacierHitachi Content Platform (HCP)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    If your organization has a lot of archival data that it needs to be backed up for safekeeping, where it won't be touched except in a dire emergency, Amazon Glacier is perfect. In our case, we had a client that generates many TB of video and photo data at annual events and wanted to retain ALL of it, pre- and post- edit for potential use in a future museum. Using the Snowball device, we were able to move hundreds of TB of existing media data that was previously housed on multiple Thunderbolt drives, external RAIDs, etc, in an organized manner, to Amazon Glacier. Then, we were able to setup CloudBerry Backup on their production computers to continually backup any new media that they generated during their annual events.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • [Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is] well suited for needs requiring a highly secure, multi-tenant on-premise object store.
    • Exceeds expectations with respect to object level attributes and permissions
    • Has excellent S3/HS3 REST API feature set
    • Situations which require versioning and proven Immutability (certified by Governments)
    - Expensive to use for general file storage publishing where meta data, compliance, retention, versioning are unnecessary.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Cheap storage of backup data.
    • Can be used as a part of the entire suite of tools from Amazon, without requiring you to leave the familiar stack.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • HCP/HDI interface works like charm. it's easy to deploy and scale.
    • Hitachi customer support is at par with expectations
    • More cost effective than EMC/NetApp solutions.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Sometime due to slow drives there are operation failure noticed by us in testing
    • Cost of restoring data is high and if you have regular restoring them it is not good option and slow as well.
    • While we were setting up the system we took some support from AWS and in many cases their answers were not up to the mark.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • Cost structure is by capacity and is expensive
    • Some access settings are mutually exclusive for performance (REST vs. CIFS)
    • QoS by Tenant requires use of external ADC (Hitachi suggested and sold us Pulse Secure) and their support on this product offering is not up to their normally high standard
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It is difficult to delete the data as you have to wait for inventory and then bucket modification has to expire.
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    Hitachi Vantara
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Since the rest of our infrastructure is in Amazon AWS, coding for sending data to Glacier just makes sense. The others are great as well, for their specific needs and uses, but having *another* third-party software to manage, be billed for, and learn/utilize can be costly in money and time.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    My company has close ties with Hitachi. NetApp chargeback was more per Gig and for cost saving purposes, we had to choose HCP.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • We seldom need to access our data in Glacier; this means that it is a fraction of the cost of S3, including the infrequent-access storage class.
    • Transitioning data to Glacier is managed by AWS. We don't need our engineers to build or maintain log pipelines.
    • Configuring lifecycle policies for S3 and Glacier is simple; it takes our engineers very little time, and there is little risk of errant configuration.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • Best on premise solution of its' kind that encapsulates all our needs
    • ROI has been positive but it does raise questions at renewal time in terms of cost/GB vs other 2nd tier storage types
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