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."It is a stable platform."
"The performance is good."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"The technology is very good, it performs well."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor."
"It very quickly provisions servers, infrastructure, and apps on the fly and complies with security requirements and data safety."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"The time to market is fast compared back to the traditional on-premise hosting. That is one of the better things I can say because there is no need to worry. The Pack services will enable it to start immediately."
"Microsoft Azure has a lot of useful features. They have databases, application services, PaaS solutions, such as platform and infrastructure services. The virtual machines' functions and services are good."
"The stability is very good. The performance is excellent."
"Azure is very flexible."
"There are several products within Azure."
"The robust encryption services increase the confidence of tech users."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"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."
"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
"The troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"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 price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging."
"Potential improvements to the price calculator tool"
"I would like to see this solution support integration."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
"Azure could be made more user-friendly."
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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