We performed a comparison between Azure Stack and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's more reliable, secure, and easy to deploy. It's much more stable as a platform."
"If a user wants to upgrade Office 365 from any of the packages, there is no disruption happening during migration, and the data is kept safe. There's no loss of data."
"Azure Stack provides us with computational power. We also get an option to have it with Azure Cloud, which is beneficial. We don't need to buy any other extra servers or any virtual machines with high-end graphics."
"We use Azure Stack for migration, application modernization, and cloud-native modernization."
"The beauty of Azure is that most of the features are easily accessible. It is user-friendly. Almost all resources in Azure are very easily accessible. For example, you can access a virtual machine, and you can scale it up. You can go ahead with different infrastructure-as-a-service in Azure for the platform or for the cloud. Different levels of development could be done using it."
"The scalability of the solution is good. We have hundreds of users internally and thousands of users externally. We do plan to increase usage shortly."
"It's a good and cost effective solution for any organization. We can deploy the tech solution on premises and also in the cloud."
"Azure Stack integrates well with Microsoft. It's also good for transitioning from an on-premise or hybrid setup to the cloud. It's seamless."
"The fact that there is only one interface to deploy a complete solution for maximum storage is fantastic."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"It's easy to use and has a very smooth onboarding process."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"The architecture of Nutanix is the best, and the virtualization we get, out of the box, is an advantage. Also, dedupe and compression are done natively, inside the platform, so there are no additional licenses. That adds value to it."
"Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure."
"I feel that Azure Stack has so many different variables which are not very clear...In general, the initial setup phase of Azure Stack is an area with concern that needs improvement."
"If I were to mention an area that could be enhanced, it might be technical support, as there have been observations that the response time is not as fast as some of its competitors like Google."
"Some tools do not run without the internet."
"The solution could be less expensive."
"It is not easy to set up. Technical expertise is required."
"It's not stable as IBM solutions. It fully supports all the .NET solutions, but our main applications are based in Java. So in those cases, we've had some minor problems with Azure, but Microsoft always says that it can handle this stuff."
"The solution is not user friendly. I'd prefer to move over to AWS, which is much easier in this sense."
"From a security perspective, there are certain things which could be improved."
"The product could be improved with more security. The product needs a bit more experience in the market. I think you don't have the possibility to add other hardware. It could be improved with the ability to add and extend."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"It already has the capability to integrate with the major cloud providers but, in an upcoming release, if there is a possibility to have it integrate with other cloud providers like IBM, Alibaba, and other moderate-level cloud providers, that would be good."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 57 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 194 reviews. Azure Stack is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS Outposts, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Google Anthos and VMware Software Defined Data Center, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex. See our Azure Stack vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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