We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure and Virtustream xStream based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."The solution provides multiple well integrated services which happen to work together seamlessly and provide flexibility and scalability for use cases all around the industry."
"It very quickly provisions servers, infrastructure, and apps on the fly and complies with security requirements and data safety."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"The most efficient feature of Microsoft Azure is that we can use it to update a website with a few clicks."
"It's a great solution. It's so customizable. Every user can create dashboards to suit their needs. We can create and share them with our teammates easily, too."
"I know there have been a lot of improvements and a lot of new services lately. I'm really not aware of all of them."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"Technical support is lacking right now. It needs to be better."
"The solution is too expensive."
"I believe that some of the services need to be available on the on-premises version and not only based on the cloud."
"Improving transparency in billing is crucial for us. Understanding how billing works only becomes clear once we start using the services. A more accurate billing calculator would help us anticipate costs associated with using specific services."
"The pricing can be reduced."
"I would like to see improved migration tools. It is improving week by week. They just need to make sure that they keep up with the new functionality provided in other clouds."
"The subscription licensing is very complex and we would like to have it simplified."
"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."
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Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews while Virtustream xStream is ranked 20th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while Virtustream xStream is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Virtustream xStream writes "Improves efficiencies, has encryption, and great mission-critical customer support". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Alibaba Cloud, whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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