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 stability is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"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."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"The performance is good."
"This product is very competitive."
"It is a stable solution."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"Infrastructure as a service is most valuable."
"The most valuable features I have found to be the auto-scaling feature and the interface."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"We find that it is easy to integrate with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office."
"The stability is very good. The performance is excellent."
"I like the ExpressRoute because that makes it easy to configure connectivity to Azure-hosted services."
"Managed storage capabilities, which create a very simple way to create, copy, and replicate local or geo-replicate, it's very simple to assign workloads."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"It is a good solution, except for the cost."
"The solution could be more cost-effective and secure."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"The setup is very complex."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The disaster recovery could be improved because there should be something in-built within the ECS. Search and recovery should be in-built. Right now, we have to use some external tools for performing the recovery itself. For example, we're using Atempo or deploying Golden Superna, so it has dependency on the external third party vendors."
"The diagnostics should have more logs."
"The installation process is complex."
"The solution should be more intuitive and provide better support. We often do not receive frequent updates or comprehensive support, even as partners."
"It could be more flexible. If you look at all Mircosoft products, they are not up to the mark. For example, Azure Ready doesn't provide the same kind of access a domain administrator has and the kind of flexibility that they have when using Active Directory. Microsoft support could be better. Their service could also be better. For example, specific policies for templates suddenly become unavailable. When I checked, they said that certain things might be withdrawn based on customer feedback. This happened once or twice, and it wasn't available at all for five days, it just went down."
"Microsoft Azure needs to improve its user interface. New developers and teams have difficulty understanding its lifecycle."
"It would be nice to have faster support."
"Monitoring options should be more sophisticated, as there are dashboards on which a end user is able to pin a lot of charts and a number of web parts, but for example, I would love to have some option like in Operational Management Suite."
"The solution must improve its pricing."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 24 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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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