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)."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 is a very easy-to-use platform, and it is very powerful in terms of data backup and Blob storage. It has very good features, especially if you are using Microsoft products, such as Windows, Microsoft SQL Server."
"Managed storage capabilities, which create a very simple way to create, copy, and replicate local or geo-replicate, it's very simple to assign workloads."
"I have not had a problem with the stability. It is reliable."
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"The pricing is quite good, and it is designed as pay-per-use."
"Azure Active Directory: Has powerful security and auditing capabilities that we use to secure all our apps."
"To me, the most valuable Azure features are AKS, Cloud SQL, security, and account management."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"There are always new features to add in terms of additional indicators, improving the looks of the dashboard and stuff. There are some dashboards that are not attractive, we are looking to make them fancier and nice-looking."
"It would be nice to have faster support."
"For deploying multiple resources in a big number, such as in hundreds, we need a streamlined process and more user-friendly scrips. The scripts have to be more user-friendly, and they should also supply some standard templates to deploy multiple resources at a time. Currently, it is very easy to deploy a couple of resources, but if you want to deploy multiple resources, it becomes complex. The material that they provide for integration with an existing on-prem data center is complex. They have to make them user-friendly. The scripts related to resource management need to be simplified."
"Could be more user friendly; initial setup is difficult to understand."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"The solution could improve by simplifying network management."
"Onboarding customers is a challenge. Sometimes our customers don't know how to deal with the cloud environment. Maybe the customers are more comfortable with the old-fashioned on-premise environment."
"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), Alibaba Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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