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, Red Hat, Dell Technologies and others in File and Object Storage."The tool is easy to use."
"It is a stable solution."
"Dell ECS is a cost-effective solution that provides ease of use and availability."
"The scalability is good."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"Active Directory is a good feature. The infrastructure features that Azure provides are also good."
"The tool's most valuable features are SQL servers and Managed Instance databases."
"The solution is very flexible, it is not limited to Microsoft solutions. It integrates well with other solutions, such as Oracle. There are a lot of templates we are able to use allowing us to reduce the time for configuration."
"It's a cloud-based application, so installation is straightforward and doesn't take much time."
"It very quickly provisions servers, infrastructure, and apps on the fly and complies with security requirements and data safety."
"The main benefit of Microsoft Azure is that it is cloud-based. We are using Microsoft Visual Studio for our code and it is tightly integrated with Microsoft Azure. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"If you're interested in going with Microsoft, my advice would be to do it. Everybody's using Microsoft."
"Its security can be improved."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"The solution could be more cost-effective and secure."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"Dell EMC ECS should support segregation of duty, particularly for role-based access controls. Having a single pane of glass for smarter observation and better control mechanism would also make this solution better."
"They're already doing quite a bit. I'm not unsatisfied with anything that they're doing right now. They can maybe make the transitions a little smoother and improve its pricing. The pricing for the end-user packages is a bit high."
"I think Azure Active Directory and also the backup solutions provided in Azure need to be improved by Microsoft. The backup solution is not a very enterprise solution, and it is very simple. I think in comparison with other backup solutions like Nakivo and Veeam Backup, it can be improved to have a lot of options."
"I think better accelerators and better tools that can be used to migrate and leverage the existing models and data schemas are needed."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"The solution could always work to reduce its costs."
"If the price were reduced then it would be an improvement."
"Microsoft Azure can be pretty advanced and difficult to understand. I would like it to be simplified. The licensing especially needs to be simplified."
"I would like to see more advanced functionality in terms of information security."
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, MinIO, NetApp StorageGRID and Cloudian HyperStore, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
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