We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure File Storage and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a stable product."
"Integration with the entire Azure platform."
"Its most valuable features are speed and security."
"The immutable storage features are valuable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure File Storage is that all the features are available in one place."
"General user familiarity with Office 365 products make adopting this solution easy to adopt in production."
"The most significant aspect of Microsoft Azure File Storage is its life cycle functionality, which enables us to transfer files to various storage options, such as hot storage, full storage, and archive. This feature is crucial since we can apply a life cycle method to files that have not been in use for an extended period, and then move them to a cheaper cold storage option to save costs. Since the newest files are stored in the hot storage, it met our specific requirements. Consequently, older files can be transferred to archive and cold storage."
"The solution is simple and robust."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward. With a few clicks, you can stand up your storage. It reduces the overall life cycle of deployment within the ecosystem."
"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"The integration with Prism Central makes it a lot easier to manage, so we just have a single pane of glass location that we can go to. We do not have a separate admin console or anything that we have to use."
"The most valuable feature is that it is highly available, solving the pain-point of delaying updates to Windows-based file servers during production hours. And then the second one would be ransomware protection and analytics. It gives you great visibility and protection on your file shares that are otherwise the most common sources of vulnerabilities."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"The reliability and availability are the most valuable features. Reliability is important because it can run my workloads. I need to be able to take advantage of the VMs that are executing on the storage. It has to be reliable. It's also important to have the storage available for scaling VMs on demand."
"The customer service executives of all Nutanix products are active and responsive."
"It's a bit complex to set up. Other than that, there is nothing to improve."
"Microsoft Azure File Storage is not that easy to use."
"It would be helpful if we could remove data that we don't frequently access to reduce the cost of the storage."
"Microsoft Azure File Storage is not that scalable. Once you reach the boundaries, you need to migrate to another solution."
"The security could always be modernized."
"The product’s pricing could be better."
"There is room for improvement in helping customers understand and integrate Azure File Storage into their operations."
"Considering the enterprise licensing required for the solution, the cost of the solution is an area where the product needs improvement."
"The implementation is a little bit complex and should be made easier."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"I would like to see the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. That could definitely be a major breakthrough in providing a unified, seamless experience for end-users. It could reduce costs as well as human effort."
"Allowing the use of the Gflag compromises the integrity of the Nutanix system and its established standards."
"From a management side, the one thing I would prefer is if it were a bit less expensive for smaller enterprises. It's a bit costly. If they provided flexible modules where you could pick and choose features, and only pay for what you use, that would be an improvement."
"Nutanix should improve the one-click upgrade. There are a lot of dependencies on third-party licenses and HP hardware we use internally. The one-click upgrade fails sometimes."
"The graphical user interfaces could benefit from more attention to detail."
Microsoft Azure File Storage is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 41 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 7th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 39 reviews. Microsoft Azure File Storage is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure File Storage writes "Various storage options available, high availability, and quick deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Microsoft Azure File Storage is most compared with Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Azure NetApp Files, Wasabi, Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Wasabi. See our Microsoft Azure File Storage vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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