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Citrix DaaS vs. Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Citrix DaaS

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACitrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or XenDesktop) is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application virtualization solution from Citrix.

    $375

    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

    Score10 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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    Citrix DaaSHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    Editions & Modules
    Virtual Apps
    $375
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Citrix DaaSHitachi 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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    Citrix DaaSHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
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    Citrix
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
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    User Ratings
    Citrix DaaSHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (55 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    2.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Citrix DaaSHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Citrix
    DaaS is ideal in large-scale environments that require centralized, secure management. Remote workforces at large organizations. Highly regulated industries like finance. It allows for easy security and monitoring over one aspect instead of multiple remote machines. DaaS is not ideal for organizations with small budgets due to the pricing and organizations with lousy network connectivity. This would make the end-user experience terrible.
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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
    Citrix
    • Enables remote access anywhere, to any device which eliminates managing the endpoints how traditional VPN would require.
    • Integrates well with modern applications to offer optimized user experiences similar to native applications which increases user acceptance.
    • Extremely flexible in how policies are applied to different use cases to ensure the appropriate security mitigations are in place with minimal effort.
    • Easy to maintain and expand environments to fit business needs.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • Intergreation of legancy storage solutions
    • Single pane for future storage configurations
    • Amazing replication capability for disaster recovery purposes
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    Cons
    Citrix
    • A single console to manage the environment.
    • The configuration is a bit complicated and we have hired Citrix administrators. But it's a good solution.
    • User profiles need improvement. They could use more stability and more functionality as well as user profile redirection.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • Ease of use can be increased so that SMB segment could leverage without the need of having a storage administrator
    • Firmware upgrade for the legancy storage device from HSVOS pane
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Citrix
    Because it has been a mainstay of our business for many years.
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    Hitachi Vantara
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    Usability
    Citrix
    Getting the environment setup took me three months of off and on work, with 3 complete rebuilds of the environment. Utilizing the WebUI to access the environment had presented so many random issues that we had to require end users to use the Citrix Reciever App. As it was the only stable solution. Aside from that, it hasn't required much admin intervention since the stand-up was completed.
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    Hitachi Vantara
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    Reliability and Availability
    Citrix
    Xendesktop did a great job with HA of all the components.
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    Hitachi Vantara
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    Performance
    Citrix
    The performance of XenDesktop is the best in the industry because of the fine-tuned protocol and years of updating. Overall, I don't think there is a better performer on the market. The question is if the added complexity of running XenDesktop is really worth the performance gain. While the latest version of XenDesktop is the easiest to deploy so far, it is still more challenging than the competitors.
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    Hitachi Vantara
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    Support Rating
    Citrix
    The support is great when you get an engineer that knows what they are doing but getting that individual sometimes takes a while. Overall, they are professional and polite and competent in their knowledge. Sometimes the cases are open for an extended period of time which becomes very frustrating when dealing with critical issues.
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    Hitachi Vantara
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    In-Person Training
    Citrix
    I was self trained
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    Hitachi Vantara
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    Online Training
    Citrix
    Easy to understand and learn at my own pace
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    Hitachi Vantara
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    Implementation Rating
    Citrix
    Take it slow and read the directions each step of the way. If you are not familiar with Citrix products, use a reseller or other experienced engineer to assist you in the setup of your environment
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    Hitachi Vantara
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    Alternatives Considered
    Citrix
    Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops is platform agnostic (we can use any underlying hypervisor technology) and really flexible for any use case. Using a golden image and provisioning it (with Machine Creation Services or Provisioning Services) is powerful and really straightforward, compared to the complexity in Microsoft RDS of maintaining a coherent farm, or the limitation of VMware Horizon to run on VMware Products.
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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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    Scalability
    Citrix
    Easily scalable
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    Hitachi Vantara
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    Return on Investment
    Citrix
    • XenApp has allowed us to continue support of legacy applications and all access of those applications to users across the globe with any device.
    • XenApp can also manage software licenses by restricting number of users, number of concurrent sessions, or combination of both to required specification.
    • While initial investment in XenApp can be costly, continuing support and upgrade are very cost effective and product stability is excellent.
    • While there are competing products from Microsoft and VMware, when it comes to remote application access, XenApp is the best of breed.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • It is quite an expensive solution compared to other vendors so we cant expect a ROI within 3 years time as always.
    • 3 years has been a standard ROI review, however storage solution like Hitachi SVOS are meant to lasts for a longer period like 6 years in my consideration.
    • However, this solution provides a great benefit to make use of legacy appliances.
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