We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry 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 most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"The performance is good."
"It is a stable solution."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"What I like best about Dell ECS is its stability. I also like that you can use it for large-scale data purposes. The solution works fine for me, and I haven't encountered any issues with it."
"The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier."
"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."
"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET."
"We find its stability and scalability valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"They could provide centralized reports."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"It is a good solution, except for the cost."
"There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The setup is very complex."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience."
"It is not straightforward to setup."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."
"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."
"In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."
"Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6. 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 Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, MinIO, NetApp StorageGRID and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and VMware Tanzu Application Service.
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