We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MinIO, Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others in File and Object Storage."The tool is easy to use."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"This product is very competitive."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"We didn't have any problems setting it up."
"The ability to scale down is a big thing."
"It's easy to use, and it's scalable. If we want to grow our product more, we can do it."
"Azure offers broad compatibility with both structured and unstructured data. For example, we use PostgreSQL for storing Azure's official data and manage various types of data, including tabular and image data, accommodating the storage of all data types we handle. So, in many ways, Azure simplified the data storage and management needs."
"It's been pretty useful in terms of migration and disaster recovery strategy."
"The data factory feature."
"Much more intuitive and more visual than AWS. More obvious where things are and how to change their configurations, etc."
"It is stable and collaborative."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"The troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team."
"They could provide centralized reports."
"The setup is very complex."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"The scalability could improve."
"Because it has a lot of features, a person just coming into Microsoft Azure might feel that it is a bit complex."
"The solution should improve the shared cache. For the shared cache, Microsoft uses RADIUS third-party services. We have a lot of trouble with RADIUS and I suppose that is due to the fact that is not owned completely by Microsoft."
"I'd like to see better integration with S/4HANA integrated and other services, like monitoring, for example."
"You don't get support from Microsoft very easily as compared to other solutions."
"I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."
"I would like it if Microsoft communicated better about upcoming changes before they roll them out. Sometimes when Microsoft implements changes, they don't notify the users promptly enough. I would like to know about new features, especially Office 365."
"Lacks flexibility in terms of storage or resource allocation."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO and Hitachi Content Platform, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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