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)."One advantage of using Azure is that clients can start with a low-cost entry in terms of hardware and scale as their business and user base grows. They don't need to allocate a large budget for infrastructure upfront."
"Azure is very flexible and easy to manage."
"We have found the user interface to be intuitive. Microsoft is a master at UI."
"Azure Data Lake is useful. We are in the process of populating the data lake for our current project. Also, we are directly importing for Power BI to using PowerPlay."
"We find that it is easy to integrate with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office."
"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."
"I think the most useful feature has been the remote desktop. It has been very helpful when customers have old applications that are not architected to run remotely."
"The robust encryption services increase the confidence of tech users."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"Talking from a networking perspective, when you create a file or a rule in Azure and you want to view this IP group, sometimes the way it is displayed on the GUI, you don't see the name of the group."
"Integration with other cloud environments can be tricky at times."
"Virtual networks might be improved by adding more rules for the validation of protocols and peripheral elements in security assurance."
"In the next release, I would like to see better security."
"The design of the platform is not so easy to navigate. It's not very user-friendly."
"There could be more documentation and video tutorials to incorporate each and every feature. This way one can easily get the knowledge and implement it."
"More expensive than other solutions without justification."
"The platform should be available at the same price worldwide."
"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, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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