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, Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others in File and Object Storage."The technology is very good, it performs well."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"It is a stable solution."
"The performance is good."
"This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"Dell ECS is a cost-effective solution that provides ease of use and availability."
"This product is very competitive."
"The most valuable feature is the interface."
"We have implemented the ExpressRoute connection, which is an established circuit between the local provider and the Microsoft network edge."
"I have not had a problem with the stability. It is reliable."
"The solution is easy to manage within the cloud application, has good performance, and is secure."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The stability is very good. The performance is excellent."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"The most important thing is we don't have to maintain any physical infrastructure. With typical conventional on-premise solutions, we have to maintain many things like the hardware, clusters, etc. With this cloud platform, you don't have to worry about all those things. We have the service always available, and this is the main advantage. I like that we use everything on our standard Active Directory on on-premises on Azure. The key advantage is that you can have the sole indication based on the cloud. This isn't possible with an on-premise Active Directory. This enables work from home and at the office because it's on the cloud."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."
"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 troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team."
"Dell ECS needs to improve its performance."
"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"If Dell ECS would be available as standalone software, so you can use any hardware with it, would make the solution better. It would also be good if Dell ECS had more integrations with other products."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex in the beginning."
"There are a number of services offered by AWS that are not yet available on Azure."
"They can add more documentation about the solution."
"The installation process is complex."
"Potential improvements to the price calculator tool"
"There are always new features to add in terms of additional indicators, improving the looks of the dashboard and stuff. There are some dashboards that are not attractive, we are looking to make them fancier and nice-looking."
"The initial setup can be improved."
"The interface for configuring the environment is not very intuitive. Certain things are at different places, and it is not easy to navigate. They should have a more transparent licensing model. Currently, Microsoft's licensing is a bit clunky, and it keeps changing depending on the type of subscription you have. Different features are included, and sometimes, it is very hard to figure out the right licensing. So, the commercial aspect of the licensing can be improved, and they can make it easier to understand all the features that are included."
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, NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO and Hitachi Content Platform, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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