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."This product is very competitive."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"The performance is good."
"Azure services like EDM and Batch are all famous, but one of the most popular services for development is Azure Functions, especially the PaaS option. Depending on a customer's environment, they can go for the PaaS."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is its ease of use."
"The solution is very simple to use. It has a lot of great practical applications we really appreciate."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"The application services are the most valuable in Microsoft Azure. I'm not using them directly but I am using the function and the web applications. I don't need to pay a lot for the maintenance. I do not need to have a DevOps employee."
"The technical support has been good."
"The cycle development time is pretty fast, and there's very good coupling within the whole set of Microsoft tools, from database to the ETL engine, ingestion through Azure Data Factory, then modeling Synapse Analytics, and reporting through Power BI."
"Provisioning a server is fast, taking only one or two minutes before it is ready."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"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."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"They could provide centralized reports."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"Dell ECS needs to improve its performance."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"It is impossible to sell a cloud-based model here in Venezuela because we have strong inflation and most of our clients are immigrating to on-premises solutions."
"Auto ML could be improved technically."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"The quality of some components of Microsoft Azure is not that great. For example, Microsoft has not fixed issues in Microsoft Teams for many years. There are well-known issues that are submitted by customers two years ago and they still are not fixed."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"Microsoft should have one package for all their solutions in one place to be found."
"At this point, the latency is too high to use Azure in our production environment."
"The solution should be more intuitive and provide better support. We often do not receive frequent updates or comprehensive support, even as partners."
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, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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