We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure and Scality RING 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)."Microsoft Azure is an optimized solution when we compare it to any other particular cloud solution."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"Technical support, from what I understand, is quite helpful and we speak with them regularly."
"Azure is a good networking solution from a WAN perspective."
"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"It's easy to use, and it's scalable. If we want to grow our product more, we can do it."
"The redundancy across different regions is the most valuable. It provides a big value for cloud services, especially for Microsoft."
"The most valuable feature of Scality RING8 is its performance and good interface."
"Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency."
"I think it's the economic factor. This solution has the lowest cost for storage systems."
"The solution should be more intuitive and provide better support. We often do not receive frequent updates or comprehensive support, even as partners."
"It can be improved in terms of ease of billing or monitoring of the billing. That gets to be a little difficult."
"The solution could always work to reduce its costs."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"There are so many services available that the interface is a little bit messy, and when you're looking for a specific service, you have to know exactly where to search."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"They should optimize their pricing so that we can use more features. I would also like to see more auditing and more security for the Blob storage feature. From a technical point, it has very good features for Microsoft products, but for non-Microsoft products, it may have some limitations. I have mostly worked with Windows-based integration, and now I am trying to use it for open-source systems. It is good but not as easy as Microsoft products."
"Microsoft Azure needs to improve its user interface. New developers and teams have difficulty understanding its lifecycle."
"When we used this solution in 2015, it was not scalable at all. I don't know if they have improved on that, but at the time, scalability was just horrible."
"Scality RING8 could improve by having more features. We have to use two automation tools to meet our needs. We would prefer to use only one."
"Scality RING is not easy to learn for someone new. It is a little bit difficult. There are a lot of components to it, and you also need to understand them to work with it effectively."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews while Scality RING is ranked 16th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while Scality RING is rated 7.8. 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 Scality RING writes "Offers UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing but lacks extensive testing ". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas Scality RING is most compared with Dell ECS, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Qumulo and Cloudian HyperStore.
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