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."I have been satisfied with the stability."
"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"It's definitely good for unstructured data. In earlier days, we had Centera, so for the DR it's really good. It has load balancing facility, and we're using it with the Kemp Load Balancer."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"It is easy to install."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"Azure virtual machines are stand-out."
"We have not had any issues with the performance, or the stability."
"The scalability is good."
"The product makes it easy to spin up new environments and develop new technologies."
"It comes with a lot of ready-made studies that we can connect with other existing Microsoft applications, for example, Office, Outlook, Chatline, and OneDrive. Everything is behind the scenes running with Azure. It's easy to build the connectors."
"The solution is similar to a plug-and-play system, it is easy to use."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The setup is very complex."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"Dell ECS needs to improve its performance."
"The solution could be more cost-effective and secure."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"They do not have complete documentation, which is very weak and could be improved."
"Stability can suffer in the context of a large architecture."
"I would prefer Microsoft Azure to increase the free trial, then developers can take advantage, and it could increase their sales."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more secure."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"The platform should be available at the same price worldwide."
"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."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"Establishing the account in the beginning was very difficult."
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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