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 scalability is good."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"This product is very competitive."
"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor."
"What I like best about Dell ECS is its stability. I also like that you can use it for large-scale data purposes. The solution works fine for me, and I haven't encountered any issues with it."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"It is stable and scalable. It is useful for many applications and services, such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive."
"Active Directory is a good feature. The infrastructure features that Azure provides are also good."
"The solution is very flexible, it is not limited to Microsoft solutions. It integrates well with other solutions, such as Oracle. There are a lot of templates we are able to use allowing us to reduce the time for configuration."
"One of the best features is the last package security of upgrades to Microsoft Azure. Also, we like Azure's compatibility with other operating systems."
"Azure Active Directory: Has powerful security and auditing capabilities that we use to secure all our apps."
"It is easy to install."
"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."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"It is a good solution, except for the cost."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"Dell EMC ECS should support segregation of duty, particularly for role-based access controls. Having a single pane of glass for smarter observation and better control mechanism would also make this solution better."
"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."
"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."
"There was a time when the solution was updated on their side and all of our functions stopped working. This issue could be worked on to prevent it from happening in the future. They must give us the information of when they are going to updates on the platform side so that we can take the appropriate measures on our side as well."
"It could be cheaper."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"We have faced some issues on the pricing side, but it has improved lately. We are trying to adjust to the new pricing methods that they are using now. It should be better from now on."
"Improving transparency in billing is crucial for us. Understanding how billing works only becomes clear once we start using the services. A more accurate billing calculator would help us anticipate costs associated with using specific services."
"Quite an expensive solution."
"I would prefer Microsoft Azure to increase the free trial, then developers can take advantage, and it could increase their sales."
"In a month, there is a plan to increase pricing, which is something we are not looking forward to."
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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