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)."The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is the Area feature. Additionally, the SQL Server DB as a serverless pool is useful, storage-wide external tables are helpful, and PolyBase is very good at reading external data. The capacity of Synapse to analyze in analytics is very good and it supports a range of data."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is its ease of use."
"User interface and portal are great."
"If you're interested in going with Microsoft, my advice would be to do it. Everybody's using Microsoft."
"One of the most valuable features of Azure is that it's a very integrated solution. You have to learn how to use it properly, but it's not that hard, and you can define your whole scrum process and deploy it from one place. It was a really nice surprise to see how easily integrated this tool is."
"It's a cloud-based application, so installation is straightforward and doesn't take much time."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is that it is easy to use."
"It's a great solution. It's so customizable. Every user can create dashboards to suit their needs. We can create and share them with our teammates easily, too."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"The interface is not easy to use. I'd like to see them develop a better interface, more graphical information about the resource and the consumer."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
"We have faced some challenges trying to deploy a new ESP application."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"It is pretty secure, but it can always be more secure."
"While integrating services from different vendors, the perceived costs are high, with occasional confusion about specific charges, especially in data transfer scenarios between regions."
"You don't get support from Microsoft very easily as compared to other solutions."
"The solution is less mature than AWS."
"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, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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